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The Ecological Structure of Madras
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Petitioning and Political Culture in Late Company Madras, 1830-1860
… existed in the understudied presidency of Madras. Incorporating archival material from British and Indian archives, this dissertation dissects the life-cycles, that is the origins and short and long-term effects, of mid-century colonial mass petitions. It does so by analysing the …
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Cultural production and identity in colonial and post-colonial Madras, India
… two colonial and contemporary buildings in Madras, South India. The Post and Telegraph Office, 1875-84 (Architect: Robert Chisholm) and the Law Court, 1889-92 (Architect: Henry Irwin) represent the two trends within 'Indo-Saracenic' architecture. The former draws precedents primarily from …
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Mapping Madras--geographic information systems applications for metropolitan management in developing countries
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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The transportation of convicts from the Madras Presidency to the Straits Settlements, 1789 - 1860
… thesis examines convict transportation from the Madras Presidency to penal colonies across the Indian Ocean, particularly the Straits Settlements, between 1789 and 1860. It discusses the transportation of Indian convicts across the Indian Ocean as a carceral network, understanding it as a set of …
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The impact of the quota-based system on social stratification among the students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
… (GCS) at the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) (IIT(M)). The study emphasized various institutional behaviors that affected the students and their educational endeavors and examined the impact of institutional practices on the students. This study examined some of the socialization …
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The Bengal army and the outbreak of the Indian mutiny
… the Bengal Army to those in its sister armies of Madras and Bombay: in particular the Bengal Army's changing pattern of recruitment, its growing list of professional grievances, the deteriorating relationship between its sepoys and their European officers, its relaxation of discipline and its …
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Minimum design standards strategies for specific urban locations with reference to India
… in two specific case locations, New Delhi and Madras, in India, and to evaluate criteria used for establishing these standards. A model of selected criteria from the different frameworks was then developed as part of an overall housing strategy. An integrated concept of housing as an …
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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
… modes of cultural production in cosmopolitan Madras. This project unsettles received histories of modern Bharatanāṭyam by arguing that cinema—in all its technological, moral, and visual complexities—bears heavily and irrevocably upon iterations of this “classical” dance. By bringing archival …
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The taxonomy of a Pentastomid parasite from an Indian Calotes versicolor
… easily obtainable in the environs of the city of Madras, India, where the incidence of the infection on the lizard, Calotes versicolor, appears to be high. Besides, the parasite would form a highly suitable material for the study of pentastomids in the laboratory.</p><p>In as much as the …
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Effects of cocaine on male fertility
… from the testis using the method described by Madras et. Al. (67) with modifications. A testicular blood flow study was conducted after percutaneous injection of 30 mg./kg body weight cocaine using Xenon-133 washout study. The expression of androgen-binding protein and transferrin expression …
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Rethinking Vivekananda through Space and Territorialised Spirituality, c. 1880-1920
… He carved out his own support base in Madras to reclaim the region from the Theosophical Society, and dwelled in native courts to accrue the patronage of native princes to build the Ramakrishna Math and Mission with him at the helm. His web of princely patronage also carried him to the …
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The silk weavers of Kanchipuram: a case study of the Indian co-operative movement
… silk weavers of Kanchipuram, a city located in Madras State, are the group selected for study. The research is directed toward answering four questions: (1) what is weaving as a way of life; (2) how, or to what extent, does the occupation itself structure the social relations of those involved …
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Towards a Common Language: Social Movements and Vernacular Publics in Telugu, 1900-1956
… unit) for Telugu speaking people in the Madras Presidency and represented the interests of Telugu speakers in Hyderabad State; the Telugu language debates (1910-1915), which argued over what form of Telugu (classical, literary or modern, non-literary) should be used in contemporary prose …
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S. Tomé de Meliapor em fins do séc. XVII : na Storia do Moghor de Niccolao Manucci
… de Chennay, durante muitos anos conhecida como Madras. Tentamos completar este conhecimento da cidade com uma reconstituição histórica do seu passado e, partindo de alguns pressupostos a que alguns trabalhos recentes de investigação sobre o urbanismo e a arquitectura portuguesa na Ásia e no …
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Ordering British Famine Relief Efforts in India, Ottoman Anatolia, and Qing China, 1873–1879
… in Bihar (1873–1874), Asia Minor (1873–1875), Madras (1876–1878), and Shanxi (1876–1879). In doing so, I argue that these Britons’ decisions about which famine sufferers ‘deserved’ humanitarian aid took shape through a universalising hierarchical logic of triage, which I call their ‘hierarchy …
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Serpents of Empire: Moral Encounters in Natural History c.1780-1870
… incorporating vivisectional experiments in the Madras Presidency in the late eighteenth century; Orientalist representations of non-European interactions with snakes in nascent print culture; and the emotional economy of educational displays of living snakes in metropolitan Britain, especially …
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