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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Northeast India"”.
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The long way home: a critical ethnography of youth and conflict in northeast India
… to varied expressions of ethnic violence in Northeast India (South Asia). Taking Garo Hills region of Northeast India as the site of inquiry, this dissertation interrogates the culture of normalized everyday violence and it reconfigures identities and subjectivities of local youth. Second, it …
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Talom Rukbo and the Donyipolo Yelam Kebang: restructuring Adi religious practices in Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India
… of contemporary research on similar movements in Northeast India, which sometimes tends toward the negation of indigenous innovation by representing such religious revivals as conversion tools attributed to the Hindu right. It is hoped that the reader will come away from this dissertation with an …
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The Wancho of northeast India in the 1970s and 1980s: Individuals and structures in a study of change
… study of contemporary Wancho society in highland northeast India, while being grounded in the constructs of historial materialism, seeks to develop an analytical framework which gives centrality to process in social structure and which accommodates a view of individuals as active agents in …
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Territories of belonging: Citizenship and everyday practices of the state in Bodoland
… (BTAD, or Bodoland for short) in Western Assam, India. The BTAD is an autonomous sub- region within the state of Assam, which in turn is part of a cluster of states in Northeast India. I look primarily at the everyday practices of the state in an ethnically diverse region with a history of …
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'TRACK’ING THE BORDER: MICRO-GEOGRAPHIES OF INFRASTRUCTURAL BORDERS IN GUWAHATI INDIA
… I specifically explore the reproduction India’s partition and the immigration debate in Assam within the city of Guwahati, the largest city of Northeast India, making it an urban frontier where border-dynamics play out. Engaging with the materialities and imaginaries of fractured …
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Wild Foods for Sustainable Food Security and Nutrition
… diets in Indigenous Peoples communities in northeast India. Bringing together primary and secondary quantitative data, this thesis demonstrates at multiple scales the ways in which wild foods can be an important addition to diets otherwise oriented around staple grains. At the macro-scale, …
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Deialogau Diwylliannol Cymreig a Khasi - Ymchwil Trwy Ymarfer Creadigol
… the literature and music of the Welsh mission in northeast India. The Methodists’ relationship with Welsh folk music and the displacement of the Welsh oral tradition by a literate and religious culture is examined. It is suggested that Welsh folk melodies reached the Khasi/Jaiñtia Hills in the …
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Pathways of industrialization exploring the impact of policy on industrial growth and urbanization in India
… & Ojha, n.d.) This is especially pertinent in India, where many areas are quickly urbanizing, and where water and sanitation services and urban planning can be non-existent in rural areas and cash-strapped regions do not have the ability to create or expand services in response to rapid …
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Leadership: Collaborative not Confrontational - Understanding Leadership from the Perspectives of Angami Women Leaders
… Naga tribe, which is one of the major tribes of northeast India. The Nagas are patrilineal, and public leadership is in the hands of men. Yet Naga women have exhibited strong leadership abilities at crucial moments in their history. Getting the State of Nagaland to ban the sale of alcohol, …
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The Many Afterlives of the Second World War in the Indian Northeast
… in the contemporary borderlands of the Indian Northeast. Broadly clubbed together as the ‘North Eastern Region’ (NER) today, the erstwhile British ‘frontier’ had been an integral part of the ‘India-Burma’ (IB) theatre of operations within the ‘China-Burma-India’ (CBI) theatre of war …