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Saniotis, Arthur. "Sacred worlds : an analysis of mystical mastery of North Indian Faqirs." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs227.pdf.
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Bhandari, Parul. "Spouse selection in New Delhi : a study of upper middle class marriages." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708142.
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Prasad, Nandana. "The JayJay Orphanage in New Delhi, India, a haven and home." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ40433.pdf.
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Vallianatos, Helen. "Food, gender & power : poor & pregnant in New Delhi, India /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136450.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 300-341). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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Renzi, Federica. "Progetto di un museo della città a Mehrauli, New Delhi, India." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/3630/.
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Il mio lavoro di Tesi prende in considerazione la possibilità di riportare alla vita un antico luogo
che ha smarrito il suo senso nella città contemporanea. Si tratta dell’area della vasca dello Hauz-i-Shamsi,suggestiva per il legame forte con l’elemento acqua.
Il tema progettuale è quello di mantenere questa zona come fonte attrattiva turistica poiché sede del Museo della città di Delhi, riconnettendolo con le altre aree di interesse e con i villaggi circostanti, diventando insieme al parco archeologico di Mehrauli un grande luogo socio
culturale della collettività.
Risulta evidente di conseguenza, che l'architettura dell'edificio collettivo, o più semplicemente
edificio pubblico, si lega indissolubilmente alla vita civile e al suo sviluppo. In tal senso l'analisi
storica è il primo momento di un lavoro che tende a definirsi nell'ambito più propriamente disciplinare, progettuale, attraverso l'analisi del ruolo urbano di tali edifici.
Per questo motivo i capitoli sono così suddivisi: nel primo si riportano brevi cenni sulla storia
dell’India, per poi concentrarsi sulla storia delle evoluzioni urbane di Delhi fino ad arrivare alla
progettazione nel XX secolo di Nuova Delhi, esempio di città di fondazione.
Nel secondo capitolo si riporta un’analisi dell’area di Mehrauli con un breve elenco dei principali
monumenti, fondamentali per capire l’importanza del Parco archeologico, luogo indicato come
Patrimonio dell’UNESCO.
Ritengo che il viaggio in India sia per un architetto un’esperienza travolgente: non a caso questa
tappa ha segnato profondamente le opere e il lavoro di due maestri quali Louis I. Kahn e Le
Corbusier. Ho dedicato, infatti, il terzo capitolo ad alcune considerazioni su quest’argomento.
Il quarto capitolo vuole essere un’analisi delle principali architetture indiane quali padiglioni,
moschee, templi sacri. Nella cultura indiana l’architettura è legata alle religioni del paese e credo
che si possano capire le architetture solo dopo aver compreso la complessità del panorama
religioso. Si sono analizzati anche i principi compositivi in particolare il ruolo delle geometrie sia
nelle architetture tipiche, sia nella pianificazione delle città di fondazione.
Il quinto capitolo è un approfondimento sul rapporto architettura-acqua. Prima con brevi cenni e
foto suggestive sul rapporto nella storia dell’architettura, poi con spiegazioni sul ruolo sacro
dell’acqua in India. Il sesto capitolo, infine, è un approfondimento sul progetto del Museo della
città di Delhi.
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Favero, Paolo. "India Dreams : Cultural Identity among Young Middle Class Men in New Delhi." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-344.
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In 1991 the Indian government officially sanctioned the country’s definitive entry into the global market and into a new era. This study focuses on the generation that epitomizes this new era and is based on fieldwork among young English-speaking, educated, Delhi-based men involved in occupations such as tourism, Internet, multinationals, journalism and sports. These young men construct their role in society by promoting themselves as brokers in the ongoing exchanges between India and the outer world. Together they constitute a heterogeneous whole with different class-, caste- and regional background. Yet, they can all be seen as members of the ‘middle class’ occupying a relatively privileged position in society. They consider the opening of India to the global market as the key-event that has made it possible for them to live an “interesting life” and to avoid becoming “boring people”. This exploration into the life-world of these young men addresses in particular how they construct their identities facing the messages and images that they are exposed to through work- and leisure-networks. They understand themselves and what surrounds them by invoking terms such as ‘India’ and ‘West’, ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’, mirroring the debates on change that have gone on in India since colonization. Yet, they imaginatively re-work the content of these discourses and give the quoted terms new meanings. In their usage ‘being Indian’ is turned into a ‘global’, ‘modern’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ stance while ‘being Westernized’ becomes a marker of ‘backwardness’ and lack of sophistication. Their experiences mark out the popularity of notions of ‘Indianness’ in contemporary metropolitan India. The study focuses on how social actors themselves experience their self-identity and how these experiences are influenced by the actors’ involvement with international flows of images and conceptualizations. It will primarily approach cultural identities through labels of belonging to abstract categories with shifting reference (referred to them as ‘phantasms’) such as ‘India’, ‘West’, etc. The study suggests that the ‘import’ of trans-national imagination into everyday life gives birth to sub-cultural formations, new ‘communities of imagination’. Their members share a similar imagination of themselves, of Delhi, their country and the world.
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Grover, D. "Gender and achievement : studies in English medium schools in New Delhi, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495756.
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Potente, Margherita. "Mhrauli, New Delhi, India: riqualificazione del parco archeologico e progetto di nuovi spazi museali." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/3628/.
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Lo spazio periurbano della città di Mehrauli è caratterizzato dalla massiccia presenza di reperti archeologici di importanza rilevante. L’intervento si pone come obbiettivo la valorizzazione di questo vasto patrimonio storico-culturale attraverso il progetto di un parco archeologico che alterna verde attrezzato ad un reticolo di percorsi connettivi.
In particolare il parco archeologico individua un sistema museale capace di connettere il tessuto urbano della città ai reperti storici più rilevanti. Il sistema parco si connette quindi alla città attraverso la realizzazione di servizi, dove oltre al museo possono essere individuati: un mercato, un aggregato residenziale e differenti edifici che possono ospitare in maniera flessibile diverse attività.
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Murali, Sharanya. "Performing ethnographic encounters : walking in contemporary Delhi." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/24399.
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This thesis is an attempt to interrogate the relationship between everyday walking and the contemporary Indian city, specifically the contemporary cultural and geographical space of Delhi--—a postcolonial city that functions simultaneously as a “global” city and a “walled city” (King, Spaces). While walking as performance art is of increasing relevance in the contemporary Indian city, the scope of this project restricts itself to examining the nature of everyday walking and its ties to everyday life, heritage and urban memory. Engaging with walking as a form of performance ethnography, this thesis considers a range of walks—heritage walks, commemorative memory walks and a form of the Situationist dérive—in the contemporary city of Delhi to ask: What can walking as an activity of performance ethnography tell us about how architecture, violence and the urban imagination dictate our lives that urban form and histories alone cannot? What is the relationship between forms of urban memory, everyday life, and heritage in an Indian city—Delhi, in this case—and how do the various kinds of walks inform this relationship? What are the various kinds of walks that emerge in response to and dialogue with site, and how do New and Old Delhi serve as models for this? This thesis is primarily about everyday walking practices in urban India, but in becoming so, it also attempts to crucially interrogate walking as ethnography as well as the practice of ethnography itself, specifically performance ethnography. It argues that some of the productive ways to engage with these practices are by re/considering walking as a practice of performance ethnography of the city, through the selective lenses of everyday life, heritage and urban memory.
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Kumar, Shefali. "The search for spatial order in squatter settlements : a case study of New Delhi, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0015/MQ54225.pdf.
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Sehrawat, Samiksha. "Medical care for a new capital : hospitals and government policy in colonial Delhi and Haryana, c.1900-1920." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670191.
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Mukhopadhyay, Tanni. "Gender, work and familial ideology : women workers in the unorganised garment export industry, New Delhi, India." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.621678.
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Proctor, Lavanya Murali. "Discourses on language, class, gender, education, and social mobility in three schools in New Delhi, India." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/726.
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This dissertation examines the ideological connections between schooling, mobility, and social difference among students in New Delhi. In it, I argue that educational mobility, especially with regard to English-language education, is an ideology which seems to offer a path to reduce social difference while in fact protecting it. I also argue that people who desire mobility engage in discursive practices which attempt to emphasize how their social positions are better than the ones they aspire to, a process I call discursive mobility. These discourses are inherently conflicted and contradictory, something I argue is characteristic of discursive responses to ideologies of educational mobility. Thus, I inquire into how different ideologies and discourses (dominant and subordinate) relating to social difference, education, and mobility interact, the prominent role of English in ideologies of education and mobility, and how the process of attempting mobility produces inherently contradictory ways of being.
This research was conducted in two government schools and one private school in New Delhi, using a number of methods including participant observation, surveys, interviews, group discussions, and matched guise technique. I describe the discursive contradictions that come from attempts at discursive mobility, how language is implicated in ideologies of educational mobility, how social ideologies of privilege affect schooling experiences and mobility possibilities, how students discursively respond to social difference, and how the discursive worlds of students in government and private schools differ.
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Saraswat, Arvind. "Air pollution in New Delhi, India : spatial and temporal patterns of ambient concentrations and human exposure." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/56224.
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Urban air pollution is a major health and environmental concern worldwide, and the levels are extremely high in New Delhi, India. This research is focused on the spatial and temporal variability of air pollutant concentrations and its implications for population exposure in New Delhi. Since traffic is considered a significant source of air pollutants in urban environments, robust and multiple linear regression models were used to understand the impact of local traffic flow on ambient concentrations of PM₂.₅, CO, NO and NO₂ at a busy intersection. To elicit the spatiotemporal variability of PM₂.₅ and its constituents (black carbon and ultrafine particles), land use regression (LUR) models were developed. Separate morning and afternoon models were developed using 136 hours (39 sites), 112 hours (26 sites) and 147 hours (39 sites) of PM₂.₅, BC and UFPN data, respectively. Finally, to understand how spatiotemporal variations in PM₂.₅ concentrations impact population exposure, a probabilistic simulation framework was developed to integrate the PM₂.₅ LUR models with time-activity data obtained from a field survey. Regression models explained about 50–80% variability in hourly pollutant concentrations and localized traffic flow explained up to 19% of variability on that scale. Auto-rickshaw and truck flow had a higher influence on NO₂ and PM₂.₅ concentrations, respectively. Independent variables in the LUR models included population density, distance from major roads, and major and minor road lengths in buffers of different radii; measurements from a fixed continuous monitoring site were also used as independent variables in the PM₂.₅ and BC models. The temporal term explained most of the variability (63–77%) in PM₂.₅ and BC models compared to spatial variables (4–16%). Exposure simulations indicate that the estimated annual average PM₂.₅ exposure (109 µg m-³) was high compared to North American or European cities. PM₂.₅ exposures were highest during the winter months (~200 µg m-³) compared to the summer months (~50 µg m-³). Ignoring mobility (i.e. exposure during transport or at work/school locations), as is generally assumed in epidemiologic studies of long-term exposure, underestimated PM₂.₅ population exposure by about 11%.<br>Science, Faculty of<br>Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), Institute for<br>Graduate
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Omer-Salim, Amal. "Mothers’ Agency in Managing Breastfeeding and Other Work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and New Delhi, India." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-247759.
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Combining breastfeeding and other forms of work is desirable from both public health and labour productivity perspectives. This is often challenging, especially in low- or middle-income fast-growing urban settings. The aim of this thesis was to gain a deeper understanding of mothers’ perspectives on combining breastfeeding and other work in the urban contexts of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and New Delhi, India. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with community mothers (n=8) and health worker mothers (n=12) in Dar es Salaam, and mothers working in the health (n=10) and education sectors (n=10) in New Delhi. The methods of analysis were: qualitative content analysis, grounded theory approach, and directed and general inductive content analyses. Mothers’ agency manifested in several ways. Striving to integrate or segment the competing domains of home and work was a goal of these mothers to reduce conflicts in managing breastfeeding and other work. Spatial and time constraints led mothers to engage in an array of carefully planned actions and troubleshooting tactics that included ways of ensuring proximity between them and their baby and efficient time managing. The timing of these strategic actions spanned from pregnancy, over maternity leave, to the return to employment. Managing breastfeeding and work triggered emotions such as stress, frustration and guilt, but also satisfaction and joy. Mothers negotiated with family, employers, colleagues and informal networks to gain support for their strategies, displaying both individual, collective and proxy agency. Changing family structures and roles highlight the potentially greater supportive role of the partner/husband. Work/Family Border Theory and Bandura’s agency constructs provided frameworks for a deeper understanding of mothers’ perspectives, but using existing family relationship constructs would better diffentiate between various modes of agency. Workplaces and maternity protection conditions were generally inadequate. Interventions are required: to strengthen the breastfeeding mother’s own agential capacity using an individual approach; to provide information to families and communities; to improve regulatory, structural and attitudinal conditions at workplaces, and to strengthen health and social services to adequately support mothers in managing breastfeeding and other work.
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Marepalli, Rohilla Padma. "Evaluation of a value based approach to urban conservation: colonial built heritage in new Delhi and Pondicherry India." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492034.
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Values-based approaches to. heritage management are generally considered to be more effective than the traditional approaches for managing complex heritage res~urce issues. Urban built environment is a testament of change and transformation may be more radical in colonial urban built environments which are symbolic landscapes representing the period of colonialism. Urban conservation is influenced by the underlying contexts. It also operates at various spatial scales; city, area and even individual buildings and involves large numbers of actors. The planning and decision-making process is therefore complex, difficult and problematic. Further the existing methods may be generally ineffective in engaging with real life contexts, complex stakeholder interactions and project uncertainties. Building on this conceptual framework, this thesis developed a novel Value-Based Approach (VBA) which can guide urban conservation decision-making. Believing that sound conceptual work requires interplay of theory and practice this thesis has tested the new VBA in project' evaluation. The two study areas, New Delhi (British planned colonial city) and Pondicherry (capital of French India)provided the thesis an opportunity to evaluate the VBA in a cross-cultural perspective. The methodological design for project evaluation in this thesis involved explorative research related to the case studies of Gole Market(Delhi) and Bharati Park (Pondicherry), developing value assessment methodologies and integrating stakeholder analysis tools in heritage management. The research findings confirm the main assumption that urban conservation decisions are governed by contexts and urban heritage is a highly contentious terrain which involves multiple stakeholders. The project evaluations reveal that the main issues related to current practice is the failure on part of the practitioners to respond to these complexities related to urban heritage. In future, practitioners should therefore approach urban conservation with a more explorative or constructivist philosophy which involves integrated value assessment and stakeholder participatory action and dialective decision making process
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Iyer, Padmini. "Risk, rakhi and romance : learning about gender and sexuality in Delhi schools : young people's experiences in three co-educational, English-medium secondary schools in New Delhi, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/59533/.
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Based on multi-method research with Class 11 students (aged 15-17) and their teachers at three English-medium, co-educational secondary schools in Delhi over nine months in 2013-14, this thesis explores how young people's understandings and experiences relate to national and international understandings of gender, sexuality and education. The thesis examines the interplay between institutional practices and students' agency within schools (drawing on Connell's 2000 framework), while I use the concept of ‘sexual learning' in order to consider young people's experiences both within and beyond the classroom (Thomson & Scott 1991). Study findings indicate the influence of concerns about adolescent sexuality on school curricula and on disciplinary practices, which sought to maintain gender segregation in co-educational spaces. The thesis also reveals the ways in which narratives of girlhood and masculinities shaped young people's lives; particularly in the wake of the December 2012 gang rape case in Delhi, these gender narratives were both contradicted and reinforced by seemingly ubiquitous stories of sexual violence. Stories of sexual violence also formed a source of gendered, risk-based sexual learning, which reinforced risk-based narratives of sexuality within formal and informal sources of sexual learning accessed by young people. The thesis also reveals heterosocial dynamics within school peer cultures as an important source of sexual learning. Students proved adept at negotiating assumptions about ‘appropriate' interactions such as idealized rakhi (brother-sister) relationships, and formed less restrictive heterosocial friendships and romantic relationships. In particular, stories about peer romances emerged as an alternative source of sexual learning, which undermined dominant risk-based narratives of young people's sexuality and offered more positive understandings of pleasure and intimacy. A key methodological contribution is the use of a narrative analytical framework in which Plummer's (1995) sexual stories are considered in terms of Andrews' (2014) political narratives. Using this framework, the thesis examines the text and context of ‘small stories' told within research encounters, and the interrelations between these micro-narratives and macro-narratives of gender, sexuality and education in post-liberalization India. This framework facilitates the examination of interrelations between local experiences and national and international understandings in the thesis. A key substantive contribution of the study is to address a lack of research on how young people learn about gender and sexuality in Indian schools. As the study largely captures the experiences of urban, middle-class young people, the thesis also contributes to the existing body of literature on middle-class experiences in post-liberalization India (e.g. Gilbertson 2014; Sancho 2012; Donner & De Neve 2011; Lukose 2009), and specifically underlines the importance of education as a site for middle-class young people's negotiation of gendered and sexual politics.
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Vijh, Rajneesh. "Return of high skilled migrants : an empirical investigation into the knowledge transfer process of two organizations in New Delhi, India." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9f119a72-7463-4121-90dd-f5a3b3b08d8e.
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Against the backdrop of the brain drain-brain gain debate, this thesis explores certain facets of the return migration phenomenon. Drawing on several theories, the decision to return among high skilled migrants is likely to be influenced by the prospect of using their overseas-acquired knowledge to secure a better livelihood back home. While ample consideration is given to motivations to return, the choice of employer and issues adjusting to the work and social surroundings, the main objective of the research is to understand migrants' transfer of overseas-acquired knowledge upon their return to India. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, the scope of the thesis is focused on returnees working in two organizations in New Delhi—Fortis Escorts Hospital and Research Centre (EHIRC) and Tata Consultancy Services' Government Industry Solutions Unit (GISU). Adopting a mixed methods approach, survey data and case interviews are analyzed to address the core research question: “How and in which ways do returnees transfer their newly acquired knowledge, skills and experiences in employing organizations?” A key hypothesis is that returnees' social ties affect the extent and nature of knowledge transfers and thus confer intended benefits and may lead to unintended consequences for their organizations. The analyses pit McPherson's (2001) principle of homophily in social networks against Granovetter's (1973) weak ties hypothesis to grasp the role of returnees in knowledge transfers within EHIRC and GISU. Results drawn from data collected on returnees, non-migrants and transnationals strongly confirm that social ties—strong, intermediate or weak—affect the transfer of knowledge to stakeholders in their organizations. The contribution of this thesis to the existing body of research is to shed light on both the potential and limitations of returnees as a conduit for transferring knowledge, upgrading skills and relaying insights to non-migrants, teams or units in the workplace.
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Canepa, Claudia. "New information technologies in the old political economy : an exploration of community-based GIS for improving basic services for the poor in New Delhi, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33012.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2005.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-223).<br>Rapid urbanization, limited neighborhood-level data, and the multiplicity of overlapping agencies in mega-cities in the developing world are creating a significant gap between citizens, particularly the poor, and government. Rising poverty rates have led NGOs and government actors to explore the role of community-based geographic information systems (GIS) in improving service provision to the poor. These participatory GIS applications focus on collecting neighborhood-level information directly from residents and providing this information to government for more need-based planning and policy-making. This thesis examines the development of three such applications in New Delhi, India, that illustrate the potential of participatory GIS production and implementation processes in strengthening communities and creating organizational change within government. However, these three projects also suggest that a stronger understanding of the political economy of information gathering and policy- making is needed if the use of resident perceptions and other types of local knowledge is to be institutionalized in government resource allocation and policy-making processes. Findings suggest, first, that, contrary to the popular belief that government lacks sufficient knowledge about the needs of the poor and that the role of participatory GIS is simply to inform "government," frontline workers have much information on the poor, and it is the higher-level officials who lack the knowledge. This knowledge differential highlights the need to deconstruct the state and consider the political economy issues that prevent information sharing between different levels of government.<br>(Cont.) Second, due to differences in ideology between NGOs and government, these two actors collect data on the poor for very different reasons. These differences may act as major impediments to GIS co-production unless special processes are set up and intermediaries are brought in to help generate common motivations between the two groups. Third, the NGOs' participatory approach to gathering local knowledge, which is deeply rooted in the flexible nature of NGOs, contrasts sharply with the standardized data collection methods that government officials and policy-makers value. This contrast, coupled with the fact that policy-making processes are often structured in ways that prevent easy incorporation of local knowledge, presents a challenge for NGOs and governments who seek to work together to create more need-based planning and policy-making.<br>by Claudia Canepa.<br>M.C.P.
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Raj, Papia. "Socio-economic impacts of globalisation on young adults in India: a study of call centers in the environs of New Delhi." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40701.
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Call centres are high on the list of service industry jobs that have been outsourced and relocated to India. Conditions of employment in such call centres are unique. Though call centre employees live and work in India, they are required to organise their lives in terms of American or European time, celebrations and communication styles to put their customers “at ease”. Moreover, these call centres advertise a Western lifestyle combined with a handsome salary to the young adults, luring them to join the industry. Once on the job, the employees are trained to work in an environment where they not only adopt English language pseudonyms and talk with the “right accent”, but also experience glimpses of the advertised Western lifestyle through training, the office atmosphere and various socialisation practices. Hence, the working hours, training processes and work ethic all encourage a particular way of life not the norm in Indian workplaces in particular, nor Indian society, at large. Such labour expectations influence the lifestyles, social behaviours and identities of these employees. Based on the qualitative analysis of information collected from fieldwork conducted with 70 New Delhi call centre employees and ten employers (between November 2004 and March 2005), in this thesis, I argue that international call centres in India are active sites of globalisation causing various socio-economic changes and influencing identities of their young adult employees. Hence, this thesis provides an in-depth micro-level analysis of the role of the service sector workplaces - active participants in the process of globalisation - as vehicles for socio-economic change among young adult employees, in India.<br>Les centres d’appels figurent de façon proéminente parmi les emplois dans l’industrie des services à avoir été sous-traités et relocalisés en Inde. Les conditions d’emploi dans ces centres sont uniques. Alors que leurs employés vivent et travaillent en Inde, ils doivent organiser leur vie en fonction des célébrations, styles de communication et heures américaine ou européenne pour le confort de leurs clients. Ces centres d’appels promettent un style de vie occidental ainsi que des salaires attrayants aux jeunes adultes afin de les recruter. Une fois dans l’équipe, les employés sont formés pour travailler dans un environnement où ils adoptent des pseudonymes anglais et parlent avec le ‘bon accent.’ De plus, ils sont exposés au mode de vie occidental lors de leurs formations, dans l’atmosphère de bureau et les pratiques de socialisation auxquelles ils ou elles sont soumis. Ainsi, les heures de travail, les processus de formation et l’éthique de travail encouragent un mode de vie qui n’est pas la norme dans les milieux de travail en Inde et plus généralement dans la société indienne. Les attentes des centres d’appels envers leurs employés influencent les styles de vie, comportements sociaux et identités de ces derniers. Faisant appel aux analyses qualitatives de l’information collectée lors d’entretiens avec les employés et employeurs de tels centres d’appels à New Delhi, je propose dans cette thèse que les centres d’appels internationaux situés en Inde sont des sites actifs de mondialisation qui engendrent plusieurs changements socio-économiques et qui influencent l’identité de leurs employés. Ainsi, cette thèse comporte une analyse en profondeur, au niveau micro, du rôle des lieux de travail dans l’industrie des services – qui sont des participants actifs au processus de mondialisation – en tant qu’agents de changements socio-économiques parmi les jeunes adultes employés, en Inde.
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Prasad, Vandana. "A study to understand the barriers and facilitating factors for accessing health care amongst adult street dwellers in New Delhi, India." University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5387.
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Master of Public Health - MPH<br>Urban health policy has remained a neglected area in India. The homeless remain the most deprived, neglected and stigmatized group amongst the urban poor. While they suffer from a large burden of disease, there are a variety of reasons that prevent them from accessing the available health care services – particularly in the public health sector. Some interventions by concerned non-governmental organisations have attempted to circumvent the barriers to health care access faced by the homeless but these have not been well documented or assessed. This study seeks to establish both the barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care and health care seeking amongst adult street dwellers in an area of New Delhi which is known for a high concentration of homeless persons. Using a qualitative approach 18 adult street dwellers (both male and female) were individually interviewed – along with 6 key informants working in the public and non-governmental health sector. This was accompanied by a process of participant-observation. The results were analyzed by identifying recurrent themes associated with barriers and facilitating factors for access to health care by the homeless, following which a set of recommendations related to the homeless, have been developed so as to inform those working in the public health sector. In terms of ethics, informed consent was taken from each interviewee and they were explicitly given the option not to participate without adverse consequences to themselves. If any participant was found with acute health problems immediate assistance was facilitated. The study reveals a number of barriers faced by the homeless in attempting to access health care services. While minor ailments are taken care of by local private practitioners, they need to access public health care services for major problems. There they encounter many barriers due to the lack of money, delays and being shunted from place to place. Moreover, they are not able to get admission for reasons such as lack of address and the lack of an attendant. Facilitating factors include assistance for transportation, facilitation of admissions, arranging money for out of pocket expenditures on drugs and consumables,
arranging blood and providing after-care. The role of social contacts in enabling access is also demonstrated through this study. The recommendations that emerge from the study are intended to assist in policy advocacy towards a comprehensive health care system for them, as well as assist health care providers to provide a better service for homeless people.
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Michon, Caroline. "Faire corps des affrontements : le Mouvement Indien des Femmes dans la ville de New Delhi, un réseau militant polymorphe." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019EHES0160.
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L’étude en anthropologie politique du Mouvement Indien des Femmes dans la ville de New Delhi a permis d’explorer les réalités tangibles du phénomène d’ONGéisation et des résistances à son encontre. À partir d’observations participantes et d’entretiens avec ses militant∙e∙s, salarié∙e∙s, je me propose d’analyser la structure du MIFD et de mettre à jour les représentations collectives qui lui confèrent un statut de communauté sociale et politique. En partant du concept « d’antagonisme équilibré », j’élabore une lecture critique des dissensions politiques qui l’animent. Ces dernières paraissent être une source notable de pluralité identitaire tout en soulignant le maintien du caractère politique du Mouvement. En mobilisant le concept de globalisation du genre et l’approche subalterne, mon travail montre que le MIFD est une communauté où les rapports sociaux sont rejoués et contestés à la lumière des paradigmes d’égalité. Dans ce réseau militant de femmes, les problématiques singulières à l’Inde se mêlent aux injonctions internationales et transnationales. Ensemble, elles forment un espace où la cause des femmes est source de conflit, de domination et de contestation de la part de femmes subalternisées, bien souvent dépossédées de leur droit de parole et de représentation. Le MIFD est ainsi en proie à un double phénomène, entre homogénéisation sociale et structurelle et tentative d’inclusion des identités plurielles des femmes. Dans cette perspective, ma thèse contribue à l’élaboration des savoirs sur les mobilisations émanant de femmes des Suds et sur le genre en anthropologie politique urbaine<br>This political anthropology study of the Indian Women's Movement in New Delhi explores the tangible realities of the NGO phenomenon and the resistance against it. Based on participating observations and interviews with its activists, I propose to analyze the structure of the MIFD and update the collective representations that give it the status of a social and political community. Starting from the concept of "balanced antagonism", I develop a critical reading of the political dissensions that drive it. The latter seem to be a significant source of identity plurality while emphasizing the maintenance of the political character of the Movement. By mobilizing the concept of gender globalization and the subordinate (??subaltern??) approach, this thesis demonstrates that the MIFD is a community where social relationships are replayed and challenged in the light of equality paradigms. In this militant network of women, the unique problems of India are mixed with international and transnational injunctions. Together, they form a space where women's causes are a source of conflict, domination and contestation by subordinate women, who are often deprived of their right to speak and represent. The MIFD is thus in the grip of a double phenomenon, between social and structural homogenization and an attempt to include women's plural identities. In this perspective, my thesis contributes to the development of knowledge on mobilizations by southern women and on gender in urban political anthropology
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Khan, Tabassum. "Emerging Muslim Identity in India’s Globalized and Mediated Society: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Halting Modernities of the Muslim Youth of Jamia Enclave, New Delhi." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1239996089.
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Andreasson, Lisa, and Jönsson Johanna Olsson. "I am still unlearning it : A qualitative study of how Indian journalists perceive their reality from a gender perspective." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-52167.
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India experienced huge media coverage from all over the world associated with the Nirbhaya-case in 2012, when a young middleclass girl was brutally raped in a bus by five men in Delhi. After this horrifying incident a lot of demonstrations followed all over India. Women in the urban areas was arguing for the same rights as men and was standing up for a more equal society where everybody is able to live as freely as someone else, no matter what gender you was born with. This study aim to examine what experiences, perceptions and opinions Indian journalists in English written press have of their reality from a gender perspective. We wanted to know how and when Indian journalist represent women and if there is a certain way of thinking about representation of women in the media content. In interviews with a total of eleven journalists and ethnographic observations in two of India’s largest cities we tried to examine the structures and perceptions that influenced the journalist’s worldview and thus also the messages that appears in the news. By using the theory of structuration, agenda setting, performativity and intersectionality we examined what structures that the journalists live and operates within and how this is affecting the media content.
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Mehta, Nishtha. ""Water thieves" : women, water, and development in New Delhi, India." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4606.
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As Indian cities expand, conflicts over limited potable water supply and access are intensifying. These conflicts place water at the center of socio-spatial, cultural, political and ecological tensions in the city. Women from urban poor neighborhoods resort to stealing, storing, buying and borrowing water to meet the daily needs of their households. However, land tenure determines access to water. Exercising its juridical powers, the state legalizes certain spaces and practices (planned neighborhoods; buying and storing water) and criminalizes others (slums; stealing water). Thus, the state controls: i) who has legal access to potable water; ii) how potable water is legally collected; and iii) where potable water is legally available.
My research uses a mixed methods approach to analyze water access, supply and management in New Delhi, India. Using primary data collected in 2009-2010 through surveys, interviews, focus groups, and participant observation, I analyze how women from two urban poor neighborhoods of New Delhi (one, a regularized inner city slum and the other, a resettlement colony) access and use potable water. I also investigate how city planners, state officials, and engineers, perceive water needs and water collection strategies of the residents from low-income neighborhoods.
My findings indicate that the state’s responses to the lack of water security in Delhi are limited to technical and engineering solutions aimed at addressing the ‘water problems’ (Zerah, 2000), which, in turn normalize discourses of scarcity (Mehta, 2005; Swyngedouw, 2003), theft and overuse (Baviskar, 2003). I argue that water security is a discourse that draws on the technicist and economistic approaches of Western-dominated international planning, and therefore all attempts to address water (in)security that emerge from this discourse leads to water policies that ignore social constructions and context of water, especially gender. I found that women from low-income neighborhoods bear a disproportionate burden of the social, political, and physical consequences of limited potable water access. In planned low-income neighborhoods, women’s vulnerabilities emerging from lack of access to potable water are exacerbated. This implies that planning in cities such as New Delhi is unable to address the daily water needs of urban poor women. These findings indicate that planning initiatives in cities such as New Delhi, should explicitly respond to the current practices and needs of women, thus minimizing the distance between technocrats and the urban poor.<br>text
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Kumar, Pooja. "The Value of Design: A Study of Pedestrian Perception in New Delhi, India." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/935.
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This thesis studies the influence of values and perception on pedestrian behaviour, to recommend how places can be designed to satisfy their user needs. By satisfying needs we mean creating user perceptions that resonate with the environmental values held by the users.
This study examines user perception of a number of pedestrian environments in New Delhi, India to identify if the environments satisfy their users’ environmental values, and then to explain how this happens. It studies Kevin Lynch’s performance dimensions for good city form – safety, access, fit, sense, and control – as some environmental values that are common to most people.
The study finds that user perceptions of how the environment affects these values will influence user behaviour. It also becomes evident that the legibility of paths, edges, and landmarks plays an important role in the mechanics of perception. Legibility is crucial to the pedestrian’s mental image of the environment: the more legible the paths, edges, and landmarks, the easier it is for the user to construct his or her mental image. Legible surroundings will enhance the user’s perception of the environment’s ability to satisfy his or her values.
The findings are used to recommend design improvements for the pedestrian environment. The successful application of this study method in New Delhi suggests robustness of Lynch’s analysis regarding how the legibility of the physical environment – especially of paths, edges, and landmarks - is a key determinant of the success of an environment to satisfy important values that are common to most users.<br>Thesis (Master, Urban & Regional Planning) -- Queen's University, 2007-12-11 16:36:06.145
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Mehra, Diya. "Remaking urban worlds : New Delhi in the time of economic liberalization." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/22136.
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This dissertation examines the impact of neoliberal economic reform on New Delhi's urban landscape. It shows how the city has transformed since 1991 through two distinct, but interlinked processes: firstly massive 'upgradation' and place-marketing efforts, initiated and supported by the state, to create for the city a global identity worthy of the capital of a newly resurgent and aspirational nation, one that is also welcoming to new capital flows and forms as Delhi undergoes massive spatial, and economic expansion. Secondly, neoliberal urban development is also marked by a series of mass evictions of the city's existing informal, indigenous economy as degraded urban forms. In tracking the unfolding 'worlding' of the city, the dissertation is interested in the production of locality at the scale of the city, the ways by different sites, networks and neighborhoods articulate with the process, and how locality is produced through a series of inclusions and exclusions. In the first half of the dissertation, the focus is the conjectural emergence of conditions of transformation, mainly through the articulation of state urban renewal policies which promote privatized urban development, judicial eviction orders and media circulated calls for the building of a new 'upgraded' city to replace the old. This, as a new 'globalized' and aestheticized imaginary of the nation, city and its citizens takes shape. In the second half, the dissertation examines shows how upgradation and mass eviction have played out in Delhi neighborhoods, juxtaposing the experience of middle class areas, who's activism has been vital in putting forth a new vision of the city, with two cases of displacement. These are the demolition of the city's slums, and secondly the sealing or closure of large networks of indigenous/informal traders. In all three cases, the dissertation outlines ethnographically how residents receive, perceive and negotiate changes in relation to their memories, habitus, and local knowledges of the old, and how they engage with state and political actors, judicial fiat, party politics and the structures of the city's mass democracy to encourage or oppose urban reforms. In its conclusion, it argues that upgradation and eviction notwithstanding, activism across classes has engendered a common critique of governance among residents.<br>text
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Singh, Sukhdev. "Digital Libraries: What and How? : Lecture delivered during "Training Course on Internet Technology Applications in Libraries, 13th - 17th October, 2003, NIC Hqs, New Delhi, India"." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105536.
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These are about 73 PPT Slides of a Lecture on Digital Libraries. The Lecture Defines Digital Library and explains some myths surrounding it. Gives an overview of Digital Library Standards, Information Resources Organisation, Metadata, Digital Archiving and Preservation and Digital Library Services. Further it highlights Challenges, General Principles, Design Principles and Digital Collection Development in Digital Library development process. It concludes with some examples of Indian initiatives in Digital Libraries.