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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Tamil"”.
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"I Can Hear Her Breathing…": Second-Generation Sri Lankan Tamil Womyn Reflect on the 2009 Toronto Tamil Protests
Public activism in the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora was demonstrated by the mass protests held in Toronto in 2009, in the months leading to the end of civil war Sri Lanka. Following the protests, research focusing on increased transnational participation, public performance of Tamil identities, and …
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TAAN, KO(N) and ANAPHORIC DEPENDENCIES IN TAMIL
This thesis aims to explain the distribution of Tamil anaphor taan. The exigency for this arises from the fact that the two predominant theories of anaphora, Standard Binding Theory (SBT) (Chomsky 1981) and the Reflexivity Framework (Reinhart & Reuland 1993) are unable to satisfactorily categorize …
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The influence of Tamil diaspora on stability in Sri Lanka
Although the Sinhalese and Tamil ethnic problem is deep-rooted and of long-standing origins, in the early 1980s, it turned into an armed conflict under the leadership of Velupillai Prabahakaran, who had formed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). The military defeat of the LTTE in 2009 did …
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Transitional relief housing for tsunami victims of Tamil Nadu, India
… a transitional shelter for the Indian region of Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is located on the southern coast of India, and was the region most affected by the recent tsunami. The transitional shelter should be a shelter that serves as an infrastructure that can be absorbed into a more permanent …
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Celluloid classicism: Early Tamil cinema and the making of modern Bharatanāṭyam
… prominent cultural forms of modern South India—Tamil cinema and Bharatanāṭyam dance—share complex and deeply intertwined histories. It addresses the entangled emergence of these two modern art forms from the 1930s to the 1950s, which were decades marked by distinctly new intermedial modes of …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
… architecture, freestanding sculpted stones, and Tamil language inscriptions patronized by south Indian merchants in south India and China. Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, Indian Ocean trade was at its apex, connecting populations on European and Asian continents through complex …
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"Aesthetics as resistance: rasa, dhvani, and empire in Tamil ""Protest"" drama"
… Resistance: Rasa, Dhvani, and Empire in Modern Tamil “Protest” Theater addresses questions concerning the role of aesthetics in the development, production, and impact of Tamil “Protest"" Theater (1900-1930) on the success of the Indian anticolonial movement in the colonial Tamil state. In …
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WAR CRIME VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES OF SRI LANKAN TAMIL MAKAL: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
… law as experienced by the minorities (i.e., Tamils) from sociological and criminological perspectives. The purpose of this study is to offer an insight into how masculinity and war crimes by the military and the paramilitary forces affected the Tamils from the Northern and the Eastern …
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I. A study of the Hokien and Tamil skull; II. Individual contour tracings
ADDITIONAL PAPERS IN SUPPORT OF THESIS: 1. Variations in the region of teh Foramen Magnum, by Gordon Harrower. Reprinted from the Journal of Anatomy, Vol.LVII, Part 2, January, 1923, 2. Mechanical considerations in the Scapulohumeral articulation, by Gordon Harrower. Reprinted from the Journal of …
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Geomorphology of Deposits from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Tamil Nadu, Southeastern India
<p>In low latitudes, geologically suitable repositories for tsunami deposits are not well defined. This project characterizes the geomorphic environments on the southeastern coast of India that preserved depositional evidence of the catastrophic tsunami created by the M<sub>w</sub>9.0-9.3 …
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Private remedial services in public schools: Evidence from ISHA’s GSAP Program in Tamil Nadu
… remedial intervention for low-performers in Tamil Nadu’s rural public schools (India), Isha Government School Adoption Program, employing a Conditional Difference-in-Differences strategy with Propensity Score Stratification and controlling for program selection bias, I ask, “Do secondary …
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LABOURING TO LEARN: A SOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT AMONGST TAMIL YOUTHS IN SINGAPORE
… educational underperformance amongst Singaporean Tamil youths using the conceptual dimensions of ‘bridging’ and ‘bonding’ capital. The biographical narratives of ethnic Tamil students from lower ability tracks in secondary schools suggest that racialization in colonial and post-colonial Singapore …
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The production of rurality : social and spatial transformations in the Tamil countryside 1915-65
… the dissertation constructs a social history of Tamil Nadu (India) between 1915 and 1965, and seeks to explain how 'rural' spaces were reproduced during a period marked by greater market penetration into the countryside, democratization and regime change, and the reorganization of community …
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Affective Roots: Memory, emotions and viscerality within organic agri-food networks in Tamil Nadu, India
… activists I met in Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India, organic food and farming was a ‘way of life’. Stemming from my curiosity about this statement and what it meant for different actors in the regional organic agri-food networks, this research explores the interconnected lives and …
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Tamil secessionist insurrection and counterinsurgency in Sri Lanka, 1977-1994: an analysis of government policies
… projects of the Sinhalese and the Sri Lanka Tamils, and, the fierce competition for resources have combined to produce an intense ethno-nationalist conflict in Sri Lanka. By the mid-1950s the animosity between the two major ethnic groups had begun to manifest itself in ethnic violence. By the …
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The Role of Family Ties in Mitigating Moral Hazard: Firm-Level Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India
… data from the district of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India, this study explores the role of family ties as a means to counteract potential moral hazard concerns. It is shown that firms will be more likely to employ family relations when faced with a higher hidden context for moral hazard. …
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The Structural Violence of Sterilization: Politics of Sterilization In the Plantation Tamil Communities of Sri Lanka
… inhabited by the ethnic minority Up-country Tamils. My research focuses on why women in the estate sector have the highest rate of participation in the family planning program in comparison with women in the rest of the country. My thesis also addresses how the agency of the Up-country Tamil …
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Coping with Experiences of War in Sri Lanka: Perspectives from Tamil Immigrants Living in the UK
… decades, which has had a profound effect on the Tamil community. The number of Tamil people living in the UK continues to grow, yet the mental health needs of Tamil immigrants and their coping behaviours remain poorly understood. Understanding the needs of war-affected communities seems …
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