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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Indian politics"”.
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The uses of the past in modern Indian politics
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Divided Bodies: Nation Formation and the Literary Marketplace in Salman Rushdie's Shame and Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
… literary renderings of Partition and Pakistani/Indian politics utilize disability as a method to demonstrate the severing of a nation and Indian and Pakistani identities. Additionally, Rushdie and Sidhwa reveal the interconnected nature of gender, honor, shame, and violence. Writing within …
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Hindu nationalism, electoral politics, and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata party in India
… has propelled the party to the forefront of Indian politics, and poses a major challenge to India's secular democracy. The central argument of this thesis is that by appealing to Hindu nationalist sentiments, the BJP has successfully "outbid" the Congress Party for the loyalty of Hindu …
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"Mahatma Gandhi's ""Constructive Programme"": Building a New India"
… practices whereby he hoped to radically reorient Indians physically, psychologically, socially, economically, politically, and spiritually to achieve ""true freedom"" not only from British rule, but from modernity as well. Arguing that attention to this aspect of Gandhi's project should not be …
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Maintenant nous te parlons, ne dedaigne pas nous ecouter Petitions et Relation Speciale entre les Premieres Nations et la Couronne au Canada, 1840-1860
… linked with the evolution of the Department of Indian Affairs, and the way it was transposed into a new policy based on the protection and civilization of Indigenous people. A comparative study of petitions addressed to the Crown by Innus of the Kings Posts and Anishinaabe on the north shore of …
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The politics of representation in Indian media: implications of the portrayal of Hindus and minority groups
This thesis explores the politics of representation in Indian media with special focus on news television’s portrayal of issues concerning Christian community. The portrayal of communities is studied in relation to the dynamics of engagement between India’s rapidly expanding news television and the …
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Chasing Tickets: Party Politics, Corruption and Municipal Elections, New Delhi
… thesis is an exploratory study of informal party politics and competition for party tickets in local politics in India. It is an ethnographic account of the Bharatiya Janata Party (the BJP) and its party members in the city of New Delhi where they compete for election tickets in the municipal …
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Implanting of an Ideology: Television, Politics, and the Making of the Hindu Right in Contemporary India
… Right palatable among a large segment of the Indian population. Following a close textual reading of the epic, this study demonstrates how the televised Ramayan reorganised and repackaged the epic in such a way that it became foundational in redefining the contours of the Indian nation along …