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Showing 1 to 20 of 216 for “"South Asia"”.
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The Origins of War in South Asia: 1947-1971
The study attempts to examine the origins of war between India and Pakistan during the time span of 1947 to 1971. Two major themes undergird this study. They are those of ideology and irredentism. The two nations of India and Pakistan were based upon markedly opposed ideological principles. The …
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Aspects of Linguistic Interaction and Gender in South Asia
This study is a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic investigation of language use and language structure within the non-Western context of India. It especially focuses on the relationship between gender and communication in two languages: Hindi, and Indo-Aryan language of India, and Indian English. …
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Embedded ideologies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the South Asia crisis 1971
This thesis examines how ideological precepts conditioned President Richard Nixon and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger’s decision-making process and produced a costly and unstable foreign policy during the 1971 India-Pakistan crisis and war. Based primarily on a close reading of archival …
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The Impact of Education on Reducing Poverty in South Asia
… secondary education attainment and poverty in South Asia. The countries of examination include India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Afghanistan, and Maldives. The primary function of this research is to determine if primary and secondary education attainment of peoples has an …
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The origins of association in South Asia: SAARC, 1979-1989
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Three Essays on Development and the Political Economy of South Asia
… share a focus on issues of political economy in South Asia, the first examining the influence of politics over public goods allocations, and the second the effects of ethno-religious politics on voter behavior, violence, and policy outcomes. The third chapter shares with the first two its …
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Communication, Disability, and Scientific Interventions in South Asia, c. 1860-1970
… treating and understanding speech and hearing in South Asia from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. It argues that instructors, specialists and medical practitioners envisaged diverse solutions to what they considered to be the ‘problem’ of disabled language. These groups broached …
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The Horse: Conspicuous Consumption of Embodied Masculinity in South Asia, 1600-1850
… horse and horse culture played in early modern South Asia through the lens of the genre of horse treatises (<italic>farasnama</italic>) produced in the Subcontinent in Persian. My analysis of the <italic>farasnama</italic> ties in directly with the new analyses of the Mughal Empire as a dynamic …
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Capital punishment in South Asia (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh): a legal analysis
Despite the inexorable global trend towards abolition, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have not embraced the abolitionist movement and still fail to accept capital punishment as a human rights issue. The application of capital punishment in the Indian subcontinent is not only a violation of …
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
The thesis simultaneously builds on and challenges the conventional wisdom on causal factors behind the rise of ethnic political parties in multiethnic democracies. The thesis contends that ethnic party success is primarily driven by insecurities borne from ethnic violence. Original data from …
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The double edged sword : the role of nuclear weapons in South Asia
… the consequences of nuclear proliferation on South Asia, specifically whether India and Pakistan are moving towards a stable nuclear balance. The thesis uses comparative case study methods to examine the role of nuclear weapons in crises and the lessons learnt from those crises. The thesis …
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The double edged sword : the role of nuclear weapons in South Asia
… the consequences of nuclear proliferation on South Asia, specifically whether India and Pakistan are moving towards a stable nuclear balance. The thesis uses comparative case study methods to examine the role of nuclear weapons in crises and the lessons learnt from those crises. The thesis …
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Inter -Rebel Group Dynamics: Cooperation or Competition. The Case of South Asia
This dissertation focuses on the interactions of armed groups that challenge the sovereignty of a state and raises the question: under what conditions do rebel groups cooperate or compete with each other? It deviates from the standard explorations into political, economic and social factors that …
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The United States and South Asia: A Study of Policy and Process
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Separatism in South Asia: The politics of ethnic conflict and regional security
… This dissertation examines the linkages in South Asia among ethnic conflict, the state and regional security. Our analysis of the Sikhs in the Indian province of Punjab, the Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Sindhis in Pakistan indicates that while ethnic conflict generally arise from domestic …
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MODERN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA: THE ORIGINS OF REVIVAL AND REFORM
During the British colonial period of South Asia, religious movements such as Buddhist modernism and Hindu nationalism became powerful agents of resistance and change. These developments, shaped by the contrasting influences of Western cultural domination and the pervasiveness of preexisting social …
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The Management and Mismanagement of Ethno -Regional Conflicts: The Case of South Asia
… conflict, I apply it to three cases in South Asia that represent different conflict levels of management. Indian Mizoram represents successful management, with the case of the break-up of Pakistan portraying the polar opposite, failed management by the state. Sri Lanka, a case of …
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Quantifying emissions of greenhouse gases from South Asia through a targeted measurement campaign
Methane (CH 4 ), nitrous oxide (N20) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) are powerful greenhouse gases with global budgets that are well-known but regional distributions that are not adequately constrained for the purposes of mitigation and policy initiatives. Quantifying emissions using inverse …
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Success Factors for the Leadership of International Humanitarian and Development Organisations in South Asia
… global network of actors providing aid to the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. These leaders steer and support the delivery of essential humanitarian and development assistance to many of the world’s poorest, naturally-triggered disaster and conflict-affected people and …
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