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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Gandhi"”.
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Refiguring the sketch : the Nari Gandhi cartographic
Nariman Dossabhai Gandhi, one of the earLiest proponents of organic architecture Taliesin and heaviLy influenced by Frank LLoyd Wright's teachings on the same subj personal understanding of the term: organic, extending it beyond his mentor's architectural rendition. Nari Gandhi defied the Legal and …
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Selfsame spaces: Gandhi, architecture and allusions in twentieth century India.
… the Indian political leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi infused deep and enigmatic meanings into everyday physical objects, particularly buildings. Indeed, the manner in which Gandhi named the buildings in his famous Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad in the early part of the twentieth century, makes …
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Bangalore-Future Trends In Public Open Space Usage. Case Study: Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore
… through a design project for a site on Mahatma Gandhi Road. The design process and final product comprises the third section.
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Essays on the Externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of India
… on the welfare externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of India. The MGNREGA is an employment guarantee scheme implemented in rural India since 2006 and is the world’s largest public works project. In the first study, I look at the effects of the …
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Gandhi as a political organiser. An analysis of Iocal and national campaigns in India 1915-1922.
By examining Gandhi as a political organiser it may be possible to bridge the gap between two interpretations of his importance -- one which focuses on his propagation of nonviolence "as a way of life", the other- which treats him as a pioneer in the use of nonviolence "as a conflict technique. " …
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Developing Teachers' Capacities to Create Caring Relationships with Students: A Case Study of a Gandhi-Inspired Private School in India
<p>Research indicates that many factors may impede teachers' ability to develop caring relationships with students such as the school environment (Schaps, 2009), lack of cultural understanding (Thompson, 1998), the teacher's beliefs and attitudes about care (Goldstein, 2002), and personal …
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"Svaraj and Self -Reliance: Translating the Self and Its Rule From the ""Bhagavad -Gita"" and ""Manusmr&dotbelow;ti"" to the Works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Gandhi"
… into the grounds for political resistance. Gandhi recombined the Transcendentalists with Indian ideas to develop his satyagraha (holding to the truth in a good cause), swadeshi swadharma (self imposed duties of self-reliant individuals for their own communities), and true swaraj (self …
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Beyond Shock City : towards a new cultural model of riverfront development
… cultural model along the Sabarmati, the Gandhi Ashram. Thirdly, a downstream sites' contemporary relationship with the Gandhi ashram is traced in order to propose and develop a new riverfront design framework through a cultural approach which integrates across multiple scales. This …
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Towards Eco-Dharma: The Contribution of Gandhian Thought to Ecological Ethics in India
… and ethical values. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi addressed similar socio-ecological concerns by adopting and adapting traditional religious and ethical notions to develop strategies for constructive, engaged resistance. The dissertation research and analysis verifies the continued relevance …
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Explaining Regime Change: A Directed Acyclic Graph
… & Dictatorship Revisited Dataset (Cheibub, Gandhi, & Vreeland 2009). The models suggest that deflationary crises and an increased magnitude of internal violence increase the probability of regime change. In addition, they indicate that decreased state fiscal capacity and lower …
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Patterns of human awareness and action : an interpretation of Gandhi's world view in comparative perspective
… Using a comparative dialogue with Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, and Religious Studies I aim to develop a definition of world view that explores the pivotal world view universals of identity, orientation and belonging and how these combine and interact in world view systems. I also explore …
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Software industry in India : product and intellectual property focus
… 2010. Established in 1980s by the late Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India at that time, the focus on education and IT has paid rich dividends for the next generation. While a lot has been achieved by Indian entrepreneurs when it comes to software services, the same cannot be said about the …
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An aesthetic cartography of fast
In this cartography, I examine M.K. Gandhi’s practice of fasting for political purposes from a specifically aesthetic perspective. In other words, to foreground their dramatic qualities, how they in their expressive repetition, patterning and stylization produced a/effected heightened forms of …
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Essays on political economy and development
… the various variates pertaining to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Guarantee Scheme in India. The results are consistent with a simple theory of maximization of electoral prospects by electorally motivated government where the citizens' total demand from the government is not significantly …
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The Lokamanya and the Sardar : two generations of Congress 'communalism'
… of Congress, despite the efforts of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) and Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
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Co-creating forevers : stories of multi-level governance for implementation of rural development projects in India
… and digitized wage payments in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Andhra and Telangana, India. Theoretically, I begin by looking at Stoker's propositions of the characteristics of a governance system, Ostrom's idea of a socio-ecological system, within …
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History, Nonviolence, and the Experience of Values
… specifically the works of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., will allow for answers to age-old axiological problems that are grounded in both pure theory and praxis of shared communal experience. I submit that one of the main lessons learned through this inquiry into the …
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Η ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΕΚΣΤΡΑΤΕΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΜΙΚΡΑ ΑΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ Η ΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΙΝΔΩΝ ΜΟΥΣΟΥΛΜΑΝΩΝ 1918-1922
… OTHER HAND THE INDIAN NATIONALISTS, INCLUDING GANDHI, SUPPORTED THE KHILAFAT MOVEMENT FOR POLITICAL REASONS. THE STRENGTH OF THE MOVEMENT CAUSED SERIOUS WORRIES TO THE BRITISH INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND PROVIDED A MOTIVE FOR THE CHANGE IN ITS ATTITUDE TOWARDS TURKEY. THE PRESSURE ON THE PART OF THE …
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Dialogue and Resistance. An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Peace Campaigning at RAF Molesworth (1980-1987)
Mohandas K. Gandhi believed that by engaging in various forms of nonviolent direct action a campaigning group could win over, or convert, even the hardest opponent to their cause. He also suggested that strict adherence to a discipline of nonviolence was necessary if such a group was to wield …
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