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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Rajasthan"”.
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Ghumar: Historical Narratives and Gendered Practices of Dholis in Modern Rajasthan.
Based on several months of fieldwork in Rajasthan, India, this thesis examines the relationship between the Dholis and the Rajputs, formed by their association with Ghumar, in two contemporary locations in Rajasthan: Jaipur, the capital city of Rajasthan, and Jasol, a small town in the Barmer …
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Patterns of Identity: hand block printed and resist-dyed textiles of rural Rajasthan
… hand-block printed and resist-dyed cottons of Rajasthan. Once a vital part of the region’s everyday rural textile and dress traditions, communicating information about its wearers and demonstrating the craftsmanship of its makers, today block printed textiles are produced primarily for export …
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A contextual missiology of the spirit: a study of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, India
… context and features of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, India as well as the internal and external issues facing Pentecostals. It argues for an indigenous origin of Pentecostalism in Rajasthan, as it is a product of local Spirit revivals in the existing churches and the missionary activities …
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Bureaucratic thinking: A study of Block Development Officers of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in India
… Development Officers (BDOs) of the two states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. BDOs were chosen because they are local administrators coming in direct contact with the people and political leadership. They are also important functionaries of Community Development Administration and are thus agents …
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Realising the right to food in India: Insights from the Midday Meal Scheme in Rajasthan
… of mixed-methods research in the Indian state of Rajasthan, I examine the extent to which India’s Midday Meal Scheme adheres to a rights-based approach to realising food security. To do so, I examine three components of a rights-based system in the context of the scheme: rights-holders and their …
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Access to private schooling under the Right to Education Act in Rajasthan, India: Exploring exclusion amongst the Scheduled Caste groups
… out of 59 caste groups of the SC category in Rajasthan (India). In collaboration with the NGO Vishakha, I used purposive sampling to identify 18 households in these caste groups with children attending private schools, either through fee payments or benefiting from the free of cost provisions …
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Goddess in Flux: Devotional Intimacy and Everyday Life at a Regional Indian Pilgrimage Site
… of Rani Bhatiyani, a Hindu goddess, in rural Rajasthan. Informed by scholarship on lived religion, it examines aspects of rural life that have hitherto been unrecognized as important to religious sphere within Hindu studies. Through ethnographic research, this study brings into attention …
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Vision, movement and landscape experience in Princely Town Amber, India
… along with six other hill forts in the state of Rajasthan was recently added to the tentative list of World Heritage Sites. It was India’s World Heritage Site nomination in the cultural category in 2012. Amber Fort and the surrounding cultural landscape evolved from the 11th to 17th century and …
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A Conservation Study of the Naulakha Pavilion at Lahore Fort, Pakistan
… the pavilion, both employ Makrana marble (from Rajasthan, India), more commonly known for its use in the Taj Mahal, India. Currently, the marble displays a wide array of deterioration including cracking, granular disintegration, and deformation that in several areas has led to dimensional loss. …
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Saintly Investments: Pilgrimage Development And Contemporary Hinduism In India
… priests, and pilgrim trusts. In Gogameri, Rajasthan, pilgrims worship at the tomb of Gogaji (a deified warrior king with Hindu and Muslim genealogical ties), presided over by litigious Muslim, Brahman, and government priests; and at Gorakhtila, a politically influential temple of Gogaji's …
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Claiming the state : citizen-state relations and service delivery in rural India
… reduction programs. My fieldwork in the state of Rajasthan, consisting of 400 in-depth interviews and a survey of 2210 households across 105 villages, reveals variation in the incidence and practice of claim-making, ranging from those who do not engage the state at all, to direct petitioning of …
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Village Doctors and Vulnerable Bodies: Gender, Medicine, and Risk in North India
… from urban 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 …
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Domestic chains, carceral lives: women’s pathways to and experiences of incarceration through the lens of love, marriage, and kinship in India
… in two states of northern India: Punjab and Rajasthan. Drawing on ethnographic research in seven closed and two open prisons, along with in-depth interviews with 127 incarcerated women – many serving life sentences for the murder of their husbands or affinal family members– it explores how …
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Rule of law and party systems : a study of regional political parties in India
… politicians across three Indian states: Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal.
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Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
… the four conjugal and natal regions of Haryana, Rajasthan, Odisha, and West Bengal, to interrogate hegemonic knowledge formations about these brides and their marriages. It analyses how the transgressions of caste, religion, and ethnicity shape the everyday lived experience of the Dalit and …
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EVALUATION OF LAND, SOIL, WATER, AND VEGETATION-RELATED ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND TRADEOFFS AT UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC FACILITIES
… important element of the local economy. First, Rajasthan, India is undergoing rapid expansion of solar PV to address the growing energy demand while meeting sustainable energy development goals in a developing economy. The results show that at the current growth rate of solar energy in …
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