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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"urban India"”.
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Building the new urban India
… regulations influencing foreign investments in India's real estate sector. Specifically, this thesis discusses the Foreign Direct Investment Policy, The Foreign Exchange Management Act and the Reserve Bank of India's Foreign Exchange Management Regulations. Combined, they presents a …
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Engendering familial citizens: Serial-viewing among middle-class women in urban India
… viewing among women in middle-families in two Indian cities carried out in 2007. It explores women’s engagement with a new brand of serial narratives that centralizes the traditional Hindu joint family and places women at the centre of the family as nurturer and custodian of traditional values. …
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Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India
… the way in which processes in contemporary urban India structure the making/ unmaking of gendered identities for young men in a working class, scheduled caste neighborhood in the western Indian city of Pune. Present day Pune, an aspiring metropolis, presents a complex socio-spatial …
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The Hidden Network: addressing digital equity through meaningful connectivity in urban India
… on digital equity in informal settlements in urban India. It investigates the nationwide expansion of 4G LTE infrastructure, driven by Jio's cost-effective high-speed data telecom revolution, which led to a shift towards smartphone-first internet access across diverse socio-economic classes. A …
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Identifying sustainable organic management systems in urban India : case study of Pune, India
… per-capita capita waste generation, cities in India and other developing countries are seeking alternative strategies to manage the organic fraction of municipal solid waste in an effort to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase environmental performance. This thesis aims to explore the …
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'Sterling Towers' : a soap opera for HIV awareness among the middle class in urban India
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Department of Telecommunications, 2005
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'Not just a housewife': Gender, Class, and Labour in the New Economy of Urban India
… engagement in the new service economy in Delhi, India. Following the economic restructuring of the 1990s, the emergence of a ‘New Middle Class’ in urban India has been widely and popularly noted. The newness of this middle class, scholars have argued, is based on the emergence of ‘modern’ …
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Decentralized water treatment in urban India, and the potential impacts of reverse osmosis water purifiers
The degrading water quality in India combined with reduced groundwater supplies and insufficient municipal water distribution has led to the adoption of household water purifiers across the country. These water purifiers are used to treat water for potable consumption (drinking and cooking), and …
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AN EXPLORATION OF SKIN TONE RELATED BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES AMONG ASIAN INDIAN WOMEN IN URBAN INDIA
… (d) use of skin-lightening products among Asian Indian women. Exploratory analyses with demographic variables such as age, education, and marital status were also examined. Cross-cultural issues in conducting research with Asian Indian women using U.S. American standardized measures of skin tone …
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Anointing the airwaves : the influence of Charismatic televangelism on the Protestant church and Hindu community in contemporary, urban India
The Indian Government's open policy on satellite television is attracting a plethora of American-based Charismatic television ministries in India. This thesis based primarily on an ethnographic study of church and Hindu community leaders, together with a subsidiary historical-comparative analysis, …
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Building stability through decentralization : the environmental, economic, and ethical argument for informal sector collection and decentralized waste processing in urban India
Rapid population growth, urbanization and increasing affluence have led to increases in consumption and waste generation in all Indian cities. The current system, a mix of informal recyclables collection and centralized waste collection by the formal sector with much garbage still disposed of in …
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Community-led participatory budgeting in Bangalore : learning from successful cases
Urban India is rapidly growing, and in cities like Bangalore, the dramatic changes have both positive and negative impacts. Citizens express concern about the capacity and credibility of local government and corporate sector in leading local development. In contrast to rural India where the 73rd …
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Re-envisioning the Indian city : informality and temporality Sabrina Kleinenhammans.
… schemes project Western-planning concepts onto Indian cities despite the fact that these models do not relate to the specific cultural and socioeconomic context of Indian societies. This approach does not provide what is needed: an "inclusive" city, responsive to the diversity of needs and …
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Disco Jalebi : an ethnographic exploration of Gay Bombay
… mediascape, technoscape and ideoscape of urban India in the 1990. Within this thesis, using a combination of multi-sited ethnography, textual analysis, historical documentation analysis and memoir writing, I attempt to provide various macro and micro perspectives on what it means to be a …
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Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
… practice makes the problems of modernity in India audible. In particular, I look at the relationship between South Indian "fusion" musicians and India's recent economic and cultural growth attributed to the economic reforms of 1991. Fusion is the local name for a musical practice that …
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Digital Queer Spaces: Interrogating Identity, Belonging and Nationalism in Contemporary India
Contemporary Indian sexual identities are constructed out of the multiple effects of tradition, modernity, globalisation and colonialism. The nation as we understand it is constructed on the basis of a commonality which ‘binds’ its citizens, and also banishes and expels those who do not conform to …
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Free Economy and Opposition Politics in India, c. 1940-70
… of economic ideas about the rise and fall of India’s Swatantra Party between 1940 and 1970. Reframing the history of economic thought around politicians and publicists from landed and mercantile communities in southern and western parts of the country, it presents an alternative history of the …
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A Social Logic of Energy: A data science approach to understanding and modelling energy transitions of India’s urban poor
… traditional solid biomass fuels for cooking in Indian households poses a serious public health risk. Particulate emissions in the form of soot contributed to approximately 600,000 deaths in 2019, a burden that falls disproportionately on women, children, and vulnerable populations. Despite over …
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An investigation into out of pocket health expenditure in India
… out of pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) in India, and provides policy suggestions that can enhance the Indian healthcare sector. Using nationally representative household data (2011-12) collected by the National Sample Survey Organization, three research areas have been examined: incidence …
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