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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"North India"”.
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The British administration of Hinduism in North India, 1780-1900.
… the religious administration of the British in India. No one section covers the entire period of 1780 to 1900, but they are assembled to give a chronological whole, with some overlapping between them. The first section traces the changes in Hindu traditions of pilgrimage in north India, c. 1780- …
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Preparing in Libraries: Educational Change, Joblessness, and Youth Practice in North India
… people’s engagement with educational change in north India. Engaging with wider debates on educational privatisation and youth agency, the thesis argues that young people are responding to the crisis of unemployment through everyday preparation for recruitment in government jobs within emerging …
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Village Doctors and Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, Medicine, and Risk in North India
… medical colleges to rural clinics in Rajasthan, North India. The ability for young women doctors to transfer their lives to a rural clinic, even for a year or two, is vital for career advancement in Rajasthan’s government health sector. Yet I found that women, over and over, rejected this …
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Muslim women in colonial North India circa 1920-1947 : politics, law and community identity
… and Muslim community identity in late colonial India. It pursues two broad themes. The first of these is the way in which gender issues were used symbolically by Muslim religious and political leaders to give substance to a community identity based largely on religious and cultural ideals in the …
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The phenomenon of possession and exorcism in north India and amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton.
… and reform movements in the 1900s, in India, suppressed religious traditions that did not conform to the textual and institutionalised forms of religion. This thesis proposes that the phenomenon of possession and exorcism observed amongst the Punjabi diaspora in Wolverhampton is in no …
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Constructing Regionalism: Discourses of Spirituality and Cultural Poverty in the Popular Music of Uttarakhand, North India
Each of these discourses may be understood to support cultural regionalism not merely as an end in itself, but as part of a larger articulation of capitalist modernity wherein local elites, state institutions, private media, and 'folklore' studies all stand to gain from the construction of regional …
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“Sharing Ontological-Metaphors”: Meanings, Expressive Agency, Lived- Realities, and States-of-Being, in Uttarakhand, North India.
… were ethnographically researched in the far northern, religiously-plural Indian state of Uttarakhand. This is a state with faith-based populations variously self-identifying as Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Sikh, or Muslim. I met members of all of these faiths regularly, although my …
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Cinema and the Urdu Public Sphere: Literary imaginaries in the making of film cultures in north India (1930-50)
… aesthetic vocabularies of cinematic practice in India. While film scholars have recognized the role of Urdu in film dialogues and lyrics, few have attempted to understand the crucial processes by which film culture was fashioned within the Urdu public sphere. This dissertation aims to map the …
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Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in North India: collaborative architectural making as a catalyst for civic empowerment and social change
… places in informal peri-urban settlements in North India through negotiation and sharing. It aims to develop a profound understanding of the effect of the post-hoc introduction of amenity buildings and city infrastructure in the creation of common places. The approach takes collaborative …
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The environment of poverty and the limits of girlhood: The struggle for the right to an education in North India. Gareebi Ka Mahual Aur Ladkeo Ki Hud
… of adolescent girls living in poverty in North India. Class, caste, gender, and regionally-based inequalities result in striking disparities leading to restricted, gendered opportunities and individual freedoms. The purpose of this ethnographic study was an in-depth exploration of the …
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Saintly Investments: Pilgrimage Development And Contemporary Hinduism In India
… legal alterations to pilgrimage development in north India by focusing on the aesthetics and social effects of knowledge: specifically, that of bureaucrats, priests, and pilgrim trusts. In Gogameri, Rajasthan, pilgrims worship at the tomb of Gogaji (a deified warrior king with Hindu and Muslim …
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Neural Decomposition of Time-Series Data for Effective Generalization
… of oxygen isotope measurements from a cave in north India. We find that ND outperforms popular time-series forecasting techniques including ARIMA, SARIMA, SVR with a radial basis function, Gashler and Ashmore’s model, and echo state networks.</p>
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The Limits of Tradition: Competing Logics of Authenticity in South Asian Islam
… on the limits of Islam in 19th century North India. It investigates specific moments when prominent Indian Muslim scholars articulated and contested the boundaries of what should and should not count as Islam. This study does not provide a chronological history of Islam in colonial India …
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Bhakti Religion and Tantric Magic in Mughal India: Kacchvahas, Ramanandis, and Naths, circa 1500-1700
… the phenomenal rise of bhakti in early modern north India as a process of identity and community formation fundamentally connected to Sufi-inflected critiques of tantric and yogic religiosity. With the advent of the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century, new alliances--most notably Akbar's …
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Navigating Pain: Women's Healing Practices in a Hindu Temple
… ethnographic study of a Hindu healing temple in North India, popular for treating psychological ailments that manifest as spirit afflictions. Religious healing centers constitute the single most popular pathway of mental health care for Indian women. These folk sites, based on etiologies of …
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Aghoreshwar Bhagawan Ram and the Aghor Tradition
… saint of the holy city of Varanasi in north India, initiated many changes into the erstwhile Aghor tradition of ascetics in India. This tradition is regarded as an ancient system of spiritual or mystical knowledge by its practitioners and at least some of the practices followed in this …
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