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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"West Bengal"”.
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A housing pattern for present day rural West Bengal, India
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1955.
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Roots of change : front line workers and forest policy reform in West Bengal
… of forest policy reform in the Indian state of West Bengal. In 1989, the Government of West Bengal adopted a policy of involving local communities in the protection and management of state owned forest lands, generally called Joint Forest Management (JFM). Through JFM considerable progress has …
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Marginal lives, peripheral practices: a study of border narratives along the West Bengal-Bangladesh border
… of border narratives with reference to the West Bengal- Bangladesh border, which has its genesis in the partition of Bengal in 1947. Secondary sources have been used in framing the research agendas, and field studies conducted in the border areas of West Bengal and Bangladesh have provided …
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Co-creating an art-based livelihood development in West Bengal: an actor-oriented ethnographic approach
… a tourism-based livelihood development model in West Bengal, India, which provides an alternative focus on understanding social enterprises as change agents. To understand how a model, a road map for community-led cultural tourism, was co-created, it is important to trace the preproduction …
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Social capital and social entrepreneurship : analysing links and implications for sustainability in third sector organisations in West Bengal
… rural voluntary organisations from the state of West Bengal, India — three with SEETOs and two with non-SEETOs. Primary data have been collected during 2007 and 2008 through face-to-face interviews, published materials, photographs and participant observations. The findings of this research …
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Centripetal Bias in the Federal Fiscal Relations in India, Growing Regional Disparity and Feeling of Discrimination : A Case Study of West Bengal
… der Perspektive eines Bundeslandes betrachten. West-Bengalen bietet hier einen besonders interessanten Fall. Bengalen war eine der reichsten Provinzen Britisch- Indiens. Aber ein Diversifizierung der bengalischen Industrie unterblieb daher, und das Bundesland war nach wie vor auf die …
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Democracy and the Politics of Social Citizenship in India
… world: the Indian states of Kerala and West Bengal. Despite a host of similar background conditions (democratic framework, programmatic political parties, strong labor unions, and a high degree of subordinate-class integration), the cases display considerable variation in their …
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Communities of Practice facilitating learning and innovation in the Indian Administrative Services - A qualitative investigative study
… in two distinct regions of India, Karnataka and West Bengal with distinctly diverse administrative and political histories. There emerged a key surprise in this research which was the evidence of IAS officers forming an elite group, this phenomenon which was manifested while conducting the …
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The Mangrove Walks: An Econometric Analysis of Climate Migration Drivers from Coastal Bangladesh and their Geopolitical Impacts
… and environmental risk proximities explain why West Bengal offers a vastly different reception to Bangladeshi immigrants than Assam. I conclude with a brief discussion of how global climate migration is connected with food insecurity, increased border militarization, and the recent rise of …
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A global strategy for the deployment of humidification-dehumidification technology
… the district of South 24 Parganas in West Bengal. Finally, multiple successful case studies have been investigated to compose an implementation plan, through which millions of dollars in profit are realistically realizable. Overall, HDH technology has key advantages which should help …
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Essays in Development Economics
… on female labor force participation in West Bengal. The second essay considers the effects of mobile internet on educational outcomes in Brazil. The third essay examines how information about the carbon footprint of different foods affects meal choices in the United States. The first …
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“Jagoron: Awakening” to Gender in Non Governmental Organizations in Contemporary Bengal
… of neoliberalism in India in general and in West Bengal specifically constrain or contribute to women’s rights advocacy on the part of women’s rights NGOs? Further, the study has situated the three NGOs within their history, culture, and political and economic context, all widely recognized …
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Arsenic contamination study of drinking water in Nepal
… although not as extensive as in neighboring West Bengal, India and Bangladesh, arsenic contamination does exist in the Terai region of Nepal. A comparison of analytical methods indicates that field kits provide a general indication of high levels of arsenic, but should be used in conjunction …
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Rule of law and party systems : a study of regional political parties in India
… 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
… 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 Muslim brides. Findings show …
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Point-of-use water treatment for arsenic removal through iron oxide coated sand : application for the Terai region of Nepal
… of countries around the world, most notably West Bengal, Bangladesh and now the Terai region of Nepal. Wide public awareness of the contamination was not until the 1990s, from years to several decades after tubewells were installed to extract groundwater for drinking water. Now, millions of …
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Intangible heritage and livelihoods : a case study on the heritage of Purulia chhau dance from India
… presents the case of Purulia chhau dancers from West Bengal, nominated intangible heritage of the world in 2010, and their relations to a development project implemented between 2009 and 2011. The objective is to examine how project’s actions worked, extending the investigation to actors’ …
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Cultivating risk : weather insurance, technology and financialization in India
… agricultural states-Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Punjab-to show how risk transfer in the agricultural sector has been increasingly financialized, with a growing dependence on new derivative instruments and the rising penetration of international reinsurance capital. The …
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Eviction or inclusion? : the politics of resettlement in Calcutta's squatter settlements
… for their legality and inclusion, based on the West Bengal government's own history of progressive slum regularization, so that "illegal" residents may be adequately and fairly compensated for any relocation, rather than forcibly and brutally removed. In this thesis I make such a case. Further, …
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