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Olsen, Wendy Kay. "Rural Indian social relations : a study of Southern Andhra Pradesh /." Delhi ; Bombay ; Calcutta [etc.] : Oxford university press, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375079320.
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Nest, Günter. "Die raumwirksame Tätigkeit indischer Voluntary Organisations, dargestellt am Beispiel ausgewählter Landkreise (Mandals) des Bundesstaates Andhra Pradesh." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2001. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=96564474X.
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Rao, Nandini Rameshwar. "Aspects of the ethnoarchaeology of Adilabad (Andhra Pradesh), India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272212.
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This thesis is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of subsistence and settlement patterns in Kuntala (Adilabad District, Andhra Pradesh) in semi-arid Central India. Ethnographic and archaeological data for this study were collected during primary fieldwork among the Gonds, an ethnic group subsisting on a mixed economy of agriculture, hunting, gathering, and fishing. The primary objective of this study is to provide an understanding of subsistence and associated settlement patterns in the Upper Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Transition phase (c. 10,000 to 6,000 B.C.) in the area. To this end, a predictive, regional model is constructed on the basis of combined historical and modern ethnographic material. This model, in the form of an hypothetical picture rather than a rigorous, quantitative and formal one, is laterally evaluated with data for such patterns from other contemporary ethnic groups in the Indian subcontinent. Predictions are made for prehistoric subsistence and settlement patterns in the Kuntala region. These are evaluated against primary archaeological evidence. The model suggests a mixed subsistence strategy of hunting, fishing and gathering with an associated settlement pattern involving large permanent camps at sources of perennial water supply, and randomly dispersed short-term encampments during the Transitional period. These predictions are corroborated on the basis of statistical analyses of artefact densities and variability in tool types at Kuntala. These results are then analysed against data from other key sites in Peninsular India. A secondary objective is to examine the theoretical and methodological paradigms that inform contemporary Indian archaeology and to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Although there is a clear place for ecological and Processual inquiry in Indian archaeology, this study points to the need for post-Processual frameworks of analysis that focus on the contextual dimensions of the prehistoric past.
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Picherit, David. "Entre village et chantiers : circulation des travailleurs, clientélisme et politisation des basses castes en Andhra Pradesh, Inde." Thesis, Paris 10, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA100105.
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A partir d’une ethnographie de la circulation des travailleurs manuels originaires d’un village du Télangana, en Andhra Pradesh, cette recherche explore les mondes sociaux, politiques et économiques des travailleurs migrants en Inde, les dynamiques et le quotidien des rapports sociaux intercastes et interclasses. Basée sur un terrain mené tant sur les espaces de travail et de vie (en zone rurale et urbaine, dans le secteur de la construction) qu’au village, cette étude contribue aux débats sur la transformation des relations de travail par l’analyse de l’asservissement pour dettes, de l’emploi journalier, du patronage, de la médiation et de l’ascension des basses castes. L’examen des contextes sociaux et culturels des expériences du travail et de la migration, des liens de caste et de classe, du labeur, de la dette, de la confiance et des manières de résister et de dominer fournit matière à une critique de la scission théorique entre travail libre et non libre, au profit d’un continuum des formes de travail et de migration, basé sur des dépendances multiples et gradées. Cette approche rend ainsi compte des micro-hiérarchies et des rapports à la mobilité sociale et à l’autorité. Cette recherche s’intéresse ensuite aux dimensions politiques et sociales du retour des travailleurs migrants et à leurs quêtes de dépendances et de protections, multiples et temporaires, au village. Le quotidien des rapports de pouvoir et des relations intercastes et interclasses est examiné à partir des pratiques et des discours d’un intermédiaire politique, des contestations publiques et de la camaraderie en état d’ébriété, des espoirs de mobilité sociale des jeunes migrants scolarisés, et lors d’un conflit politico-religieux. L’étude des logiques de domination, d’acceptation et de résistance des travailleurs exprimées dans les luttes pour l’accès aux ressources du village contrôlées par les dominants (parti politique, crédit, programmes de développement gouvernementaux et ONG) montre de quelles manières s’entremêlent la politisation des basses castes et la recomposition des rapports de clientélisme au village<br>Based on a detailed ethnography of circulation of labourers, originated from a village of Telangana (Andhra Pradesh) and employed in rural and urban construction work, this thesis explores the social, political and economical worlds of labour migrants and the dynamics and everydayness of intercastes and classes relationships. Through a fieldwork carried out on both spaces of work and life at the destination places and village setting, this research contributes to debates on the transformation of labour relations in contemporary India by examining issues such as bonded labour, daily wage work, patron-client relations, mediation and low-caste ascendancy. The study of social and cultural contexts of labour and migration experiences, toil, debt, recruitment, trust and modes of resistance and domination brings material for a critic of theoretical divide between free and unfree labour. It shows how an approach through the continuum of labour and migration forms gives a better account of micro-hierarchies, dependency, social mobility and authority. This research then explores the social and political dimensions of the return of migrants and their quest for multiple and temporary protection and dependency taking place in the village. The everydayness of power relationships and the reinvestment of migrants into village activities are examined through the practices and discourses of a political intermediary, the public contestation and friendship after alcohol consumption, the aspirations of rural youth and political-religious conflicts. This sheds new light on the logics of acceptation, domination and resistance around access to local resources (development programs, NGO’s, political parties) cornered by dominant groups and on the overlapping of the politicisation of low-caste and of the reconstruction of patronage in the village
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Schmid, Martina A. "Traditional food consumption and nutritional status of Dalit mothers and young children in rural Andhra Pradesh, South India." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85646.
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Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) and vitamin A and iron deficiencies are major public health problems in India. Traditional food systems are known to be sustainable, high in species variety and have rich nutrient sources. This thesis describes nutritional status in Dalit mothers and children living in villages with the Alternative Public Distribution Program (ADDS), a community food security program based on traditional agriculture, and in control villages.<br>We recruited 263 Dalit mother-child (6-39 months) pairs from 19 APDS and 18 control villages in the Medak District. Food frequency questionnaires and 24-hour recalls were used during two seasons in 2003. A socio-cultural questionnaire including anthropometry and clinical eye examination were obtained during rainy season.<br>In summer, mothers from APDS villages consumed more frequently millet (18% vs. 8%, P = 0.04) every week, and had higher intake of energy (mean +/- SD: 12,197 +/- 3,515 kJ vs. 11,172 +/- 3,352 kJ; P = 0.02) and protein (77.5 +/- 25.1 g vs. 71.1 +/- 25.2 g; P = 0.05). During rainy season, they had higher intakes of energy (11,168 +/- 3,335 kJ vs. 10,168 +/- 3,730 kJ; P = 0.04), protein (68.9 +/- 22.6 g vs. 60.4 +/- 23.8 g; P < 0.01) and iron (15.8 +/- 6.6 mg vs. 13.7 +/- 9.1 mg; P < 0.01). Overall, 58% of mothers were chronic energy deficient (BMI <18.5 kg/m2) and intake of pulses (g/day) was inversely associated with chronic energy deficiency (OR = 0.98, P < 0.01). Sorghum consumption (OR = 0.99, P = 0.03) was inversely correlated with the occurrence of clinical vitamin A deficiency symptoms which was prevalent in mothers (16%). More children from APDS villages weekly consumed millet (18% vs. 7%, P = 0.05) in summer and sorghum (76% vs. 60%, P = 0.02) every day during rainy season. The prevalence of stunted, wasted and underweight children was 33%, 52%, and 63%, respectively.<br>Our findings show that dietary patterns, but not nutritional status, differ between mothers from villages with and without APDS. Malnutrition (PEM, vitamin A deficiency) is a prevalent problem in these rural poor communities and traditional food consumption plays a key protective role.
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Degoy-Thotakura, Laure. "La variabilité céramique en Andhra Pradesh : regard sur des productions céramiques indiennes entre histoire, sociologie et transformations économiques." Paris 10, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA100080.
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L'acceptation ancienne d'un lien étroit entre culture matérielle et identité joue un rôle majeur dans les stratégies d'observation et l'interprétation des vestiges céramiques. Depuis une quarantaine d'années, un nombre croissant d'ethnoarchéologues et d'ethnologues tentent, au départ d'études ethnographiques, de saisir les termes du rapport unissant les traditions artisanales et les sociétés qui les produisent. C'est dans cette même perspective théorique que nous avons entrepris une étude ethnographique comparative des productions céramiques actuelles d'une région particulièrement complexe sur le plan socio-culturel : l'Andhra Pradesh, un état du sud de l'Inde. Notre travail est fondé sur des enquêtes et des prospections effectuées à grande échelle, dans une centaine de communautés de potiers en activité. Ces communautés appartiennent à la caste des potiers, qui détient le monopole de la confection céramique, dans un contexte de production hyper-spécialisé. Elles se répartissent en dix sous-castes distinctes, implantées dans les quatre provinces historiques et dialectales de l'Andhra Pradesh. Ces enquêtes, tout comme le choix de l'échelle d'analyse, se sont avérées fructueuses. Elles permettent d'envisager sous un jour nouveau le phénomène de variabilité céramique dans le monde indien où la relation entre diversité technique et identité n'est généralement envisagée qu'en fonction de l'existence des castes et de la différenciation des sous-castes. Notre travail souligne à l'inverse l'importance du contexte économique de production (domestique, villageois, à petite ou grande échelle), mais aussi, des processus historiques qui se sont avérés des clefs de compréhension fondamentales des phénomènes de variabilité complexes étudiés dans ce travail<br>Since 19th century, aspects of temporal and spatial variability of material culture are being viewed by archaeologists as hypothetical indicators of ethnic identity. In the past three decades, archaeological, ethnoarchaeological and social anthropological researches have focused considerably to refine theories and methods in the perspective to assess the anthropological meaning of material culture patterns. On these similar lines, I have carried out an ethnoarchaeological study in a macro region of south India, Andhra Pradesh, questioning the mechanisms, particularly, the anthropological factors that support techno-stylistic variability in pottery production. Comparative ethnographic observations were carried out at large scale, in linguistically, dialectically and historically diverse areas and among ten sub-castes of potters, full time specialist groups. The study uses the chaîne opératoire approach to highlight significant technological variations of pottery production. Based on observational data, the results of this study clearly challenge the current assumption regarding pottery variability in India. Taken as a package, technical variation display contrasting patterns, randomly link to sub-caste divisions. Historical factors and economical feedback prouved to be predominant in shaping the pottery traditions reveling the complexity of the mechanisms that support variability and the need to consider various sociological scale to interpret technical variations in cultural identity terms
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Ota, Masako. "Between school and work : children in rural Andhra Pradesh (2002)." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251451.
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Negers, Daniel. "Le Burrakatha d'Andhra Pradesh (Inde) : essai de description d'une forme narrative théâtralisée en langue télougoue : l'importance de l'expression littéraire dans la communication et la culture populaires." Paris 10, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA100160.
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Nilotpal, Kumar. "Egoism, anomie and masculinity : suicide in rural South India (Andhra Pradesh)." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/292/.
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The dissertation offers an examination of the incidence and significance of ‘farmer suicides’ in post-reform India. Based on fieldwork conducted in a village in Anantpur district, Andhra Pradesh, it challenges the notion that the official category of ‘farm-related’ suicides is always characterized by farm-related etiologies. Instead, it shows an etiological continuum underlying these suicides. One end of this continuum does comprise genuine farm-related suicides that are distinguished by high levels of indebtedness on account of non-fructuous investments in groundwater extraction, land-leases, expenditure on marriage(s) of daughter(s) and health related difficulties. But there is also a large sub-category amongst official ‘farm-related’ suicides that includes many that are not exclusively or principally farm-related. Sometimes called “fake (farm-related) suicides”, this sub-category is explained locally in terms of a range of familial or inter-family disputes. It is by systematically creating or inflating the extent of household indebtedness after a suicide, attributing it to ‘farm-expenditures’, and then denying non farm- related causes in collusion with the police during an inquest, that local peasants manage to have such suicides classified officially as ‘farmers’ suicides’. Such a classification is to their financial or social advantage. My analysis of local farming practices confirms the view that the entrenchment of capital-intensive groundwater-based commercial agriculture in a semi-arid zone has intensified various production related risks. However, the dissertation also shows that rural suicides represent significant social and cultural disjunctions. Local inter and intra-family kin relationships are increasingly undermined by rising individualism and its attendant friction. There are also normative tensions that arise out of an acute desire on the part of local peasants to adopt status-enhancing, refined lifestyles and consumption practices. A local ideology of masculinity (paurusham) structures the interaction between these wider economic, social and cultural changes and emergent notions of self amongst the villagers. Local suicides, whether they are principally farm-related or not, represent differential possession of masculine aggression, and one’s capacity and willingness to construe and avenge irreversible dishonour (avamanam). Insofar as the claim of honour is widely democratized now, and insofar as there is an expansion in the scope of social space in which it is claimed now, the possibilities of experiencing dishonour and the need to avenge it by way of suicide has also increased.
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Ståhlgren, Martin. "Fertilty variation in Andhra Pradesh : the role of mass media exposure." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-308399.
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The southern Indian state Andhra Pradesh has today among the lowest fertility rate among all the major Indian states (1,8 children per woman). In recent years some studies has point to the role of mass media exposure in lowering fertility in Andhra Pradesh. Questions have been raised, however, about the nature and interpretation of this evidence. This study attempts to address this issue by examining the determinants of fertility variation in Andhra Pradesh in a multivariate framework, using Sub-district-level data from census 2011. However, to provide a deeper understanding of how mass media may have shape people’s views and opinions about childbearing, a comparative case study has also been carried out. The study´s result shows that mass media exposure emerges as the most important factor explaining fertility variation in Andhra Pradesh. Moreover, poverty reduction, low child mortality, urbanisation and low levels of son preference also contribute to fertility variation. By contrast, general indicators of development such as female and male education bear no significant association with fertility variation in Andhra Pradesh.
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Satyanarayana, A. "Andhra peasants under British rule : agrarian relations and the rural economy 1900-1940 /." New Delhi : Manohar, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb358659382.
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Yadama, Gautam Nagabushana. "Comparative analysis of governmental and nongovernmental community development programs: A study of community forestry programs in Andhra Pradesh, India." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1054749561.
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Still, Clarinda. "Gender, Eduaction and Staus in Dalit Community in Andhra Pradesh, South India." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498121.
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Neff, Daniel F. "Subjective well being, human capability and monetary poverty in rural Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499941.
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McDonald, Brian D. "Evaluation of industrial promoted agroforestry in Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, India." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10774.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2009.<br>Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 72 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-65).
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Powis, Benjamin. "Penetrating localities : participatory development and pragmatic politics in rural Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43090/.
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This research sets out to explore the interface between the new politics of localisation and the political process in India. Governments and donors have increasingly emphasised the locality as the primary unit of development and politics. This new trajectory has been manifest in the increase of community-based organisations and mechanisms of participatory governance at the local level. From the late 1990s, the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh emerged as one of the most important examples of this new developmental politics and this research sets out to explore how local dynamics changed as a result. Political economy approaches tend to focus on state-periphery relations in terms of interest groups or vote banks. By contrast, this research found the village to be an enduring unit in the political system through which political identity manifests itself through three features. First, participation in local elections is driven by common forces of politics of parties, caste and corruption but its outcome is dependent on the specific context at the village level. Second, new participatory institutions created through state policy were found to merge with informal practices at the local level and produce a complex interplay between the new local and state identities. Third, analysis of leadership found evidence of a well-defined system of organisation within party groups at the village level, which were shaped not by party institutions but by the inner workings of village politics. These findings give cause to reassess the way in which we understand policy and political change. I do so by expanding on Skocpol's polity approach, which focused attention on the dynamic interplay of policy and social structure. Drawing on elements of the 'political development' theory, the concept of a ‘developing polity' approach is elaborated on, to better explain the complex interplay between local and higher level politics. These findings have implications for understanding both political change in India and development strategy. The macro-perspective on the decay of political institutions is contrasted with a local perspective that finds evidence of the vitality of party politics at the village level. This has a number of important implications for development, both in terms of the way in which we analyse participation and the way in which participatory development can be translated into political change
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Guttikonda, Asresh. "From innovators perspective : process of grassroots innovation in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105068.
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Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 64-69).<br>In the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in grassroots innovation in India and beyond, both as an area of formal research and practice. Although many different explanations of grassroots innovations exist in literature, they can be understood as novel products and processes that solve an unmet need or pressing challenge for an individual or community in a particular local context. Grassroots innovators come from rural communities and have limited or no formal education, but are capable of developing innovative solutions within the constraints engendered by the context they are embedded in. Although there is recognition of grassroots innovation by the central government in India, the vibrant discussions and learnings from the researcher and practitioner community has not translated to its inclusion in state level innovation policies, as evidenced in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Through the narratives of four grassroots innovators, the thesis explores how grassroots innovation processes materialize in these two states. Analysis of the processes reveal that a confluence of resources (financial, material, physical, knowledge and technical), individual agency, and external-organization created networks is essential to transforming an idea into a product. Drawing on insights from the analysis, the thesis then proposes ways in which grassroots innovation can be recognized and supported within the existing innovation policy frameworks in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This includes linking formal education and grassroots innovation, leveraging college and university infrastructure as experimentation space, giving grassroots innovators access to incubator resources, and channeling corporate social responsibility funds to financially support them.<br>by Asresh Guttikonda.<br>M.C.P.
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Shroff, Monal R. Bentley Margaret E. "Child nutritional status, feeding practices and women's autonomy in rural Andhra Pradesh, India." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1397.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Apr. 25, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Nutrition of School of Public Health." Discipline: Nutrition; Department/School: Public Health.
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Olsen, Wendy Kay. "'Distress sales' and exchange relations in a rural area of Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334997.
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Tollervey, Jonathan E. "Climate change, human well-being and livelihoods in Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569459.
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This research aimed to determine how the potential impacts of climate change upon the hydrological cycle in Medak District, Andhra Pradesh, could affect the ability of stakeholders to achieve positive livelihood outcomes and influence human well- being, by affecting the delivery of key provisioning ecosystem services (ES). This was undertaken with reference to two physically similar but hydrologically different study sites that are considered to be hydrologically representative of each other under different climate change scenarios (as predicted by the SWAT hydrological model). Both sites are located at different points along a trajectory between being water scarce and having surplus water (the upstream site having less water). The premise was that by comparing both these sites in relation to their current respective capacities to deliver hydrologically sensitive ES, speculation could be made as to how both sites might function under climate change. By also understanding how the delivery of these ES can influence the ability of stakeholders to achieve positive livelihood outcomes and enhance human well-being, it was also possible to examine how climate change will affect these parameters in the future. A five-tiered strategy involving qualitative, semi-quantitative, quantitative, modelling and theoretical methodologies delivered meaningful understandings of site-specific relationships between stakeholders and key hydrologically sensitive ES, including those surrounding the provision of crops, fish, forest products and water resources. These assessments established that virtually every relationship contrasted to some extent across the two study sites, with downstream stakeholders normally finding it easier to achieve positive livelihood outcomes. When all the assessments were evaluated together within the context of the thesis premise, and based upon the broad assumption that at some point in the future, the overall study area will begin to deliver ES to a similar extent as the current downstream site, it was concluded that climate change will affect specific livelihood components and constituents of human well-being in a predominantly positive way. This finding starkly contrasts with those of many other studies, which predict that climate change will have significantly detrimental and negative impacts upon livelihoods and well-being in India. The overarching thesis conclusion also suggests that climate change may not always be a major obstacle towards achieving a number of the Millennium Development Goals. Furthermore, this research has helped to Increase our understanding of the links between hydrology, ecosystems (and biodiversity) in the study area and the benefits that people enjoy from nature, whilst also demonstrating that these links are both multiple and complex. Consequently, this thesis can help to inform, assist and support policy and decision makers when preparing India for the challenges that its society and economy may face in the future.
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Vedagiri, Anu. "Five Narasimha temples in Andhra Pradesh and their function as a religious collective." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1092749968.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.<br>Document formatted into pages; contains xix, 216 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2009 Aug. 17.
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Sirajuddin, S. M. "Human biology of the Chenchus of Andhra Pradesh : a demo-morpho-genetic study /." Calcutta : Anthropological survey of India, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35749302s.
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Vedagiri, Anu. "Five Nṛsiṁha Temples in Andhra Pradesh and their function as a religious collective." The Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1092749968.
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Watson, Samantha. "The limits of self help : policy and political economy in rural Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-limits-of-self-help-policy-and-political-economy-in-rural-andhra-pradesh(e3d798e0-0010-4aed-8ad4-6f069ccafd1c).html.
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This thesis analyses the scope for the “self-help” model of rural development to succeed in its broadly stated aims of enabling rural women to advance their social status and enhance their own and/or their family’s livelihoods. The thesis is organised around two key sites of investigation. The first questions the potential for “self-help” to operate within existing social relations - expressed in access to land, other assets and resources (including credit), and in different forms, conditions, and relations of labour. The second questions its potential to intervene in, and potentially overturn, these relations. These questions are embedded in a wider analysis of the ways in which individual and collective attempts to advance living conditions (or at least defend them from deterioration) are defined by historically (re)produced social relations. Analysis is centred on the South Indian State of Andhra Pradesh, where the “self-help” policy approach, now widely replicated as a model for central and federal interventions, is most established. This is a mixed-methods study. It draws on statistical analysis of large-scale secondary survey data, analysis of primary fieldwork, and of government policy documents and other relevant documentation. The thesis engages directly with the philosophical issues this raises, to develop a foundation for the logically consistent assimilation of statistical and “qualitative” methods into mixed methods research. Fieldwork centred on two villages in southern Chittoor district and relied primarily on repeated in-depth interviews with members of four self help groups and, where applicable, their husbands (30 respondents in total). Local officials and programme staff and bank managers were also interviewed. In addition, multi-level logit regression analysis was conducted with two large-scale, complex secondary data sets; the All India National Survey Sample (round 61; schedule 10; 2004/05) and the Young Lives Project Survey (round two; 2005/2006). An innovative weighting procedure was applied to adjust for the latter’s non-random sampling procedure.The findings demonstrate the tensions invoked by state policy emphasising agential action in the absence of due regard for the structural relations within which actions not only take place, but in which the conditions for their possibility and articulation are generated, institutionalised, and reproduced. This situation is exacerbated by unfolding ecological crisis in the fieldwork village sites, problematising the land-based solutions traditionally advocated by the Indian Left. The thesis concludes that Andhra’s self-help programmes can perform a non-trivial ameliorative role in the short-term, but this is undermined by a wider tendency to reproduce and potentially exacerbate ongoing processes of rural differentiation.
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Hytteborn, Julia. "Irrigation with wastewater in Andhra Pradesh, India, a water balance evaluation along Peerzadiguda canal." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-88887.
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<p>Studien behandlar bevattningsgivornas storlek av avloppsvatten längs Peerzadiguda bevattningskanal i Andhra Pradesh, Indien. Peerzadiguda bevattningskanal är belägen norr om Musifloden nedströms Hyderabad som är huvudstad i delstaten Andhra Pradesh i Indien.</p><p>I regioner med knappa vattenresurser kan avloppsvatten vara en värdefull resurs i jordbruk som kräver bevattning. Så är fallet längs Musifloden som innehåller Hyderabads orenade och delvis renade avloppsvatten. Studieområdet är den del av marken runt Peerzadiguda bevattningskanal som är bevattnad av densamma. Flödet i kanalen mättes, vattenförlusterna uppskattades och bevattningen över hela området beräknades. I ett geografiskt informationssystem (GIS) beräknades arean på studieområdet och några kartor tillverkades. För några fält i området beräknades också den aktuella bevattningen med mätningar av flödet i bevattningskanalerna på fälten och med hjälp av intervjuer med lantbrukarna. Bevattningen av fälten utfördes med bassängbevattning. Den aktuella bevattningen användes i vattenbalansberäkningar för rotzonen för de grödor som växte i området: grönsaker, fodergräs och ris. En optimal bevattning beräknades.</p><p>Bevattningen över hela studieområdet beräknades till 41 mm per dag. Den aktuella bevattningen som uppmättes på fälten var mindre men de utförda vattenbalansberäkningarna visade att vattenförluster förekom, i vissa fall stora sådana. När den optimal bevattning användes i beräkningarna minskade förlusterna. Stora vattengivor och användningen av bassänbevattning och leder till vattenförluster och att stora mängder patogener tillförs jorden.</p><br><p>This thesis focuses on the amounts of wastewater irrigating the land along Peerzadiguda irrigation canal in Andhra Pradesh, India. The Peerzadiguda irrigation canal is located north of Musi river downstream Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state Andhra Pradesh.</p><p>In regions where the freshwater resources are scarce, wastewater can become a valuable resource in irrigated agriculture. This is the case along Musi river that contains Hyderabad’s untreated and partly treated wastewater. The study area is the land around Peerzadiguda irrigation canal that is irrigated with water from the canal. The flow in the irrigation canal was measured, water losses were estimated and the irrigation amount over the whole study area was quantified. In a Geographical Information System (GIS) the size of the study area was measured and a few maps produced. The actual irrigation on a few farms was also calculated from measurements of the irrigation canals on the farms and from data from interviews with the farmers. The irrigation of the fields was preformed with basin irrigation. The values of the actual irrigation was used in water balance calculations of the root zone for the crops growing in the area: vegetable, paragrass and paddy rice. An optimal irrigation scheme was then calculated.</p><p>The irrigation over the whole study area was calculated to 41 mm per day. The actual irrigation measured on the fields was lower but the water balance calculations showed that the irrigation leads to water losses, in some cases large losses. With the optimal irrigation amount used in the water balance the water losses were reduced. The use of basin irrigation and the large amount of irrigation water leads to water losses and larger amounts of pathogenic organisms is added to the soil.</p>
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Larsson, Marie. ""When women unite!" : the making of the Anti-Liquor Movement in Andhra Pradesh, India /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-980.
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Hallett, B. M. "The mineralogy of fluoride mobilisation to groundwater from the peninsular granite, Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1344019/.
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This thesis investigates the mineralogical sources of fluoride (F) in groundwater in two gneissic granite bedrock aquifers in Andhra Pradesh, India, with the aim of developing a conceptual framework for describing the mechanisms of F release from mineralogical sources to groundwater. This included an enquiry into the spatial variation and relative importance of the mineralogical F sources, the effect of weathering and regolith development on F distribution, and the processes of waterrock interaction concerning F. The two catchments (Maheshwaram and Wailpally) are underlain by Pre-Cambrian gneissic granite, with groundwater F concentrations often exceeding the WHO guideline limit for F in drinking water (1.5 mg/l). Samples of fresh and weathered rock were collected and analysed using optical petrology, point counting, X-ray diffraction, electron microprobe and whole rock chemical analysis, the results of which were used to develop mass balances of F occurrence through the weathering profile. The availability of fluorine for release to groundwater was investigated through batch leaching experiments. Results indicate the principal F-bearing rocks to be porphyritic granites in both catchments, with apatite, biotite, fluorite, amphiboles and titanite as the principal Fbearing minerals overall. The relative availability of F for release to groundwater (as indicated by batch leaching experiments) does not directly relate to sample total F content. Weathered samples, with typically low total F content and few F-bearing minerals may provide a source of F to groundwater through the leaching of relatively mobile and water soluble F. High F leached from calcrete samples and mafic vein samples in Wailpally may be important sources of F to groundwater where present. Generalisations of F distribution and release to groundwater at both a catchment scale and local scale are represented by a series of conceptual models, and a semiquantitative analysis of F-loss through long term weathering presented.
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Mariotti, Chiara. "Displacement, resettlement and adverse incorporation in Andhra Pradesh : the case of the Polavaram Dam." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/14575/.
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Beckett-Hile, Diana M. "Development programs and the Maoist insurgency in Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh: a comparative analysis." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27793.
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This thesis compares development programs in two states, Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, that have been affected by the Maoist insurgency in India, also known as Naxalism. It provides a history of Naxalism as well as an examination of the various attempts to combat them in both states. While the law and order approach has long been preferred to counter the Naxal threat, recently there has been a shift in favor of the hearts and minds approach, embodied by the development programs under the Integrated Action Plan (IAP). The thesis assesses these programs across the two states and how effective they have been in obtaining their objective of reducing Naxalite violence. This thesis finds that, while the IAP schemes are still new and thus difficult to evaluate, there are many projects underway in both states despite continued Naxal activity and lack of governance in those states. The presence of good governance can indicate how quickly the IAP programs will be successful, but it does not necessarily mean that the programs will fail where governance is lacking. Violence associated with Naxalism has declined in both states recently, seemingly corresponding with the increase in governance that these programs bring to adivasi communities.
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Tsunashima, Hiroyuki. "An Alternative Way of Agricultural Development by the Koya People in Andhra Pradesh, India." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/123351.
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Pendurthi, Sita Mahalakshmi. "Mango butter financial feasibility analysis: value added in the Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38672.
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Master of Agribusiness<br>Department of Agricultural Economics<br>Allen M. Featherstone<br>Mango butter is one of the byproducts from mangos that is mostly used in the cosmetic and soap industry. Hydraulic pressing is one way to extract the oil from the mango kernel. Hydraulic pressing is more cost effective for small scale processors due to both a relatively lower initial and operating cost. Moreover, the processing produces uncontaminated oil and a pure cake residue when compared to screw press or solvent extraction method. This thesis was undertaken to study the financial feasibility of value added to the mango by manufacturing mango butter in the Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh India. The Totapuri mango variety is studied.
A number of locations in India were evaluated for the manufacturing unit location considering the area of production, mango productivity and the presence of pulp factories for raw material sourcing. The analysis indicated that the Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh, India has a cluster of mango pulp factories that are reliable sources of raw material.
Indian consumers are generally quick to adopt new products with better experiences and more convenience. This study identifies additional uses for mango butter in countries that consume mango butter, and highlights products with which mango butter would be in competition. The advantages and limitations of competitors producing in the Indian market are discussed.
The recommendation of this study is that entrepreneurs should study the sector thoroughly before investing in mango butter production. Project size and outlay of the depend upon the market size, the type of technology that will be used and how automated the project will be. New entrepreneurs may partner with existing merchant exporters initially to gain entry into international markets. Once entry is obtained, vast export potential for such products can be slowly tapped.
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Leclerc, Eric. "Petites villes indiennes en développement : Facteurs non-agricoles de croissance ou de stagnation dans le district de Krishna (Andhra Pradesh - Inde)." Phd thesis, Université de Rouen, 1993. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00451662.
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Dans un contexte de crise urbaine, cette thèse s'interroge sur le déclin des petites villes en Inde et sur les conditions de leur développement. Saisissant l'opportunité d'une décentralisation administrative intervenue dans les années 1983-85 en Andhra Pradesh, cette étude explore le rôle dévolu aux petites villes, prises entre des métropoles toujours plus attractives et des villages en transformation. La recherche est menée à deux échelles, celle du district de Krishna, une région prospère de la côte du Coromandel, et sur un échantillon de six petites villes. Après une revue de la littérature sur le phénomène « petite ville » dans le Tiers Monde et en Inde, une analyse historique présente l'évolution de l'urbanisation en Andhra Pradesh. La définition de l'objet d'étude, les petites villes, est comparé dans les différentes sources mobilisées, puis une nouvelle définition élaborée pour déterminer l'échantillon d'étude. A l'échelle du district, les conditions du dynamisme des petites villes sont analysées en prenant en compte l'évolution démographique, socio-professionnelle et les activités, dominées par le tertiaire tant public que privé. La réforme des mandai, en multipliant les centres administratifs par trois a été un des facteurs de l'éclosion d'une nouvelle génération de petites villes en Krishna. La thèse s'achève sur une analyse fine de l'importante mobilité de la population, déplacements quotidiens et migrations pour un échantillon de quatre centres. Les flux remontants des villages ou descendants des grandes villes mettent en évidence des aires migratoires très vastes. La vitalité des petites villes montre leur rôle essentiel dans la hiérarchie urbaine, ainsi que leur place dans le passage de la ruralité à l'urbanité.
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Mecharla, Prasada Rao. "Distress diversification or growth linkages? : explaining rural non-farm employment variations in Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323049.
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Masset, Edoardo. "Food demand, uncertainty and investments in human capital : three essays on rural Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2420/.
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This dissertation provides some explanations of the causes of poverty in rural India, by investigating poverty determinants that are too often neglected in the literature and in policy debates. It proceeds in three main chapters, each addressing a specific research question. The first chapter focuses on the process of agricultural transformation in the state of Andhra Pradesh. In the early stages of economic development, all countries undergo a process of transformation of their production and employment structure. As a result, agricultural output as a share of total GDP decreases, as does rural employment as a share of total employment. Over the last 50 years, the share of agriculture in total output has considerably declined in Andhra Pradesh. However, the agricultural sector continues to employ the great majority of the labour force. The theoretical section of this chapter shows how structural change is affected by the characteristics of food demand and by income inequality. The empirical analysis, using novel semiparametric methods, estimates food Engel curves and food elasticities, which are used to simulate the effects on changes in income distribution on the composition of demand. The second chapter analyses the stabilising effect of irrigation on household expenditure. The expansion of irrigation infrastructure, together with the introduction of hybrid seeds and chemical fertilisers, was the most important technological advancement in Indian agriculture of the last 50 years. The positive impact of irrigation on income of rural households has been extensively documented, but its stabilising effect has been largely neglected. The first part of the chapter builds a theoretical model that establishes the causal links between access to irrigation, income stability, and consumption smoothing over the seasonal cycle. The empirical analysis assesses the stabilising impact of irrigation on expenditure using modern impact evaluation techniques. The findings indicate that consumption patterns of households with access to irrigation are more stable over the seasonal cycle and over the years. The third chapter studies the effect of income uncertainty on educational choices made by the rural poor. It investigates the demand side of education in order to understand why a large number of rural children do not enrol or complete primary education. The theoretical part of the chapter presents an inter-temporal consumption model that shows how the expectation of income variability negatively affects household expenditure on education. The empirical analysis uses a duration model with time covariates in order to estimate the determinants of child progress in school, and provides evidence that income variability negatively affects investments in education.
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Spary, Carole. "Mainstreaming gender in development policy : a comparative analysis of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/58dfeb9c-8d32-4c0a-913f-fc1135f072d9.
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Karan, Kavita. "Political communication in the 1991 general election in India with special reference to Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1997. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2230/.
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This research on Political Communications in the general elections and its effectiveness is one of the first of its kind on India, the literature having concentrated on voting behaviour in relation to socio-economic characteristics. The importance of communication during elections has been inadequately researched because of the diversity of the country. Through a content analysis of the coverage of election information in the media and case studies of party campaigns, the study evaluates the campaign practices in the mass media and conventional interpersonal forms. It highlights the electronic and outdoor forms like posters, wall writings, symbol displays and cutouts that were important during the 1991 elections. The thesis then examines the impact of these campaigns through a panel survey on a sample of 1155 electors from the three constituencies of Hyderabad, Secunderabad and Nagarkurnool in Andhra Pradesh. The voting patterns have been evaluated in relation to access to and the impact of different forms of political' communications. Research revealed that Indian political communication campaigns were well organised and professional advertising agencies were hired to promote the parties. Campaigns have been systematically planned through the development of creative and media strategies. Apart from the mass media channels, interpersonal forms continued to be important to reach the diverse electorate. There was a high level of exposure to newspapers, radio and television which were sought as important sources for election related information. Interpersonal forms were found to be persuasive. Education, urbanization, gender, caste and religion are important factors influencing the voters' perceptions and receptivity to electoral communications. But, while increased level of information does heighten the level of political awareness, it does not determine the final outcome. An important aspect was that families largely tended to vote as single units with men generally deciding who to vote for. Women showed relatively little interest in politics (though comprising an important 45% of voters) and their under representation in the study necessitated the need for weighting. The assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in the middle of the elections adds an important dimension to the research, from those who voted in a normal election and those in the 'sympathy wave'. This study, though conducted under unusual circumstances does provide a much needed insight into the political changes in the country and the increasing use of US inspired media driven campaign practices of political marketing combining comfortably with conventional practices of political marketing in India. A final yet important aspect of this research is the exploration of the problems of survey research in a country of cultural plurality such as India.
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Sivaram, P. "Social mobility : a sociological study /." New Delhi : Discovery publ, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37461391g.
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Rao, Narayana K. V. "Emergence of Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4002.
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Challa, Vijayalakshmi. "Andhra desa samsthanalu- Sangeeta Vangmayam." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1162.
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Kuppaiah, R. "Anti-Arrack agitation in Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4192.
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Aruna, A. "State Government finances in Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/6109.
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Reddy, Inna S. "Social reform movements in Andhra (1920-1947)." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1248.
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Chinta, Kameswari. "Performance evaluation of Andhra Pradesh State financial corporation." Thesis, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4300.
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Tadepally, Nagender Swamy. "Development and social change in rural Andhra Pradesh." 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/14253082.html.
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Venkateshwarlu, Bittu. "A critical study of leather puppetry in Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/1272.
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Rao, Prasada A. G. "Demand for fertilisers in Andhra Pradesh a zonewise analysis." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4367.
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Padmavathi, K. "Social constraints on women education in rural Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4396.
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Rambabu, P. "Sustenance of slum improvement programme in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4771.
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Sunder, Shyam V. "Information Technology policy: A case study of Andhra Pradesh." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/5652.
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Nagamani, Alivelu. "Visionary Experience of Mantra : An Ethnography in Andhra-Telangana." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/13378.
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<p>The use of codified sacred utterances, formulas or hymns called “mantras” is widespread in India. By and large, scholarship over the last few decades studies and explains mantras by resorting to Indian sources from over a millennium ago, and by applying such frameworks especially related to language as speech-act theory, semiotics, structuralism, etc. This research aims to understand mantra, and the visionary experience of mantra, from the perspectives of practitioners engaged in “mantra-sadhana (personal mantra practice).” </p><p>The main fieldwork for this project was conducted at three communities established around “gurus (spiritual teachers)” regarded by their followers as seers, i.e., authoritative sources with visionary experience, especially of deities. The Goddess, in the forms of Kali and Lalita Tripurasundari, is the primary deity at all three locations, and these practitioners may be called tantric or Hindu. Vedic sources (practitioners and texts) have also informed this research as they are a part of the history and context of the informants. Adopting an immersive anthropology and becoming a co-practitioner helped erase boundaries to get under the skin of mantra-practice. Fieldwork shows how the experience of mantras unravels around phenomena, seers, deities, intentionality and results. Practitioners find themselves seers mediating new mantras and practices, shaping tradition. Thus, practitioners are the primary sources of this research. </p><p>This dissertation is structured in three phases: preparation (Chapters One and Two), fieldwork (Chapters Three, Four and Five) and conclusions (Chapter Six). Chapter One discusses the groundwork including a literature review and methodological plan— a step as crucial as the research itself. Chapter Two reviews two seers in recent times who have become role-models for contemporary mantra practitioners in Andhra-Telangana. Ethnographic chapters Three, Four and Five delve into the visionary experience and poetics of mantra-practice at three locations. Chapter Six analyses the fieldwork findings across all three locations to arrive at a number of conclusions.</p><p>Chapter Three takes place in Devipuram, Anakapalle, where a temple in the shape of a three-dimensional “Sriyantra (aniconic Goddess form)” was established by the seer AmritanandaNatha Sarasvati. Chapter Four connects with the community surrounding the seer Swami Siddheswarananda Bharati whose primary location is the Svayam Siddha Kali Pitham in Guntur where the (image of the) deity manifested in front of a group of people. Chapter Five enters the experience of mantras at Nachiketa Tapovan ashram near Kodgal with Paramahamsa Swami Sivananda Puri and her guru, Swami Nachiketananda. </p><p>Across these three locations, which I find akin to “mandalas (groups, circles of influence, chapters),” practitioners describe their experiences including visions of deities and mantras, and how mantras transformed them and brought desired and unexpected results. More significantly, practitioners share their processes of practice, doubts, interpretations and insights into the nature of mantras and deities. Practitioners who begin “mantra-sadhana (mantra-practice)” motivated by some goal are encouraged by phenomena and results, but they develop attachment to deities, and continue absorbed in sadhana. Practitioners care to discriminate between what is imagined and what actually occurred, but they also consider imagination crucial to progress. Deities are sound-forms and powerful other-worldly friends existing both outside and within the practitioner’s (not only material) body. We learn about mantras received from deities, seen and heard mantras, hidden mantras, lost mantras, dormant mantras, mantras given silently, mantras done unconsciously, and even the “no”-mantra. </p><p>Chapter 6, Understanding Mantras Again is an exploration of the fundamental themes of this research and a conceptual analysis of the fieldwork, keeping the mantra-methodologies and insights of practitioners in mind—what are mantras and how do they work in practice, what is visionary experience in mantra-practice, what are deities and how do they relate to mantras, and other questions. I conclude with a list of the primary sources of this research— practitioners.</p><br>Dissertation