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Joseph, John Santiago. "The relevance of involvement in micro-credit self-help groups and empowerment : findings from a survey of rural women in Tamilnadu." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100632.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to establish the extent to which women's membership in self-help groups and their involvement in various activities of these groups, with particular reference to Micro Credit programs, impacted their socio-economic empowerment. The objective is to study the socio-economic empowerment impact factors (evidences) in women members of micro-credit self-help groups in rural India upon the self, the family and the community.Data selected for analyses was based on an operational model of empowerment that encompassed indicators of purported empowerment at the personal, family and community levels. The working hypotheses in quantitative analyses are that there are significant differences in income, savings, assets, expenditure, basic amenities, as well as attitudinal and behavioral changes in the rural women before and after their group membership.
The qualitative interviews helped to assess the life conditions of the women as the process of empowerment before and after their participation in self-help group micro-credit program. The qualitative interviews were to corroborate the veracity of reported progress from the survey to shed some light on the specific factors that contributed to their empowerment in line with their present quality of life at personal, family and community levels. Hence, the impact of the program is measured as the difference in the magnitude of a given parameter between the pre-and post-SHG situations by comparing the life condition of members before joining the self-help group to their condition three years after joining.
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Nordh, Hagberg Marie. "Water management and wateravailability in a subwatershed,Tamil Nadu, India : Vattenhushållning och vattentillgång i ettdelavrinningsområde, Tamil Nadu, India." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Luft-, vatten och landskapslära, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-182810.
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India is a country with progressing technical and economical development, but the development is not evenly distributed. Farmers in the Indian rural areas are struggling. There are worries that climate changes could have a negative impact on agriculture. This study was performed in Kancheepuram with support from the non-governmental organization Hand in Hand. The aims of this study were to analyze effects on agriculture due to watershed management in a village and to describe the crop patterns in a village and compare the yield with a village without watershed management. Data was collected by interviewing farmers in the villages Arapedu and Tenpakkam. In Arapedu watershed management was applied and in Tenpakkam it was not. Data collected by Hand in Hand on precipitation, village records, well inventory and maps were analyzed. The water level in the wells increased in most wells between 2007 and 2008, but due to short data series it was not possible to affirm if this was due to the watershed management or increased rainfall in the early months of 2008 compared to 2007. No evidence of change in precipitation in the area was observed. Only precipitation data was analyzed since other climate data was absent. Hand in Hand was working within a broad spectrum in the village. Apart from the watershed project they are working with empowerment of women´s situation, self-help groups, microfinance and against child labor. This study period was too short to confirm effects of watershed management. However this study can be used as a baseline study for future evaluations. Key words: Rainwater harvesting, watershed management, Tamil Nadu
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Oliveau, Sébastien. "Periurbanisation in Tamil Nadu : a quantitative approach /." New Delhi : Centre de sciences humaines, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40975054m.
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Texte remanié de: Doctoral tesis--Geography--University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2004.Publ. à l'issue d'un congrès international : "Peri-urban dynamics : population, habitat and environment on the peripheries of large Indian metropolises" tenu à New Delhi en août 2004. Bibliogr. p. 83-90.
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Winters, Jacqueline. "Women in Indian development : the dawn of a new consciousness?" Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66247.
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Vella, Stéphanie. "Femme et développement : géographie de la discrimination sexuelle au Tami Nadu(Inde du Sud) : infanticide des filles et avortement sélectif des fœtus féminins." Bordeaux 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006BOR30024.
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Notre doctorat a pour objet la spatialisation de la discrimination sexuelle envers les filles au Tamil Nadu, Inde du Sud. Dans un premier temps, nous avons réalisé un historique de l'infanticide dans le monde et analysé les méthodes de choix du sexe d'un enfant. Après avoir dressé un tableau des discriminations subies par les femmes et les filles, notre analyse géographique, toujours replacée dans un contexte asiatique, a étudié la diffusion de l'infanticide et de l'avortement sexo-sélectif en Inde. Dans cette optique, nous avons utilisé la base de données informatisée du recensement, principalement les variables sex-ratio, sex-ratio à la naissance et sex-ratio 0-6 ans en Inde, Inde du Sud puis, plus localement, dans la région du Kongu Nadu, Tamil Nadu. Nous avons ainsi cartographié la diffusion des anomalies de ces sex-ratios. À cette spatialisation, les enquêtes de terrain ont alors apporté des explications socio-culturelles, mais aussi d'ordre économique, notamment par l'étude des principales castes impliquées dans les pratiques discriminantes. Dans le village étudié, nous avons ensuite analysé les pratiques de genre au sein de la caste des Kongu Vellalars Gounders, mais aussi l'infanticide qui persiste dans la région concernée, malgré les actions des programmes gouvernementaux et des ONG. Nous avons ensuite analysé un ensemble de facteurs responsables, plus ou moins directement, de l'altération des sex-ratios. Ce champ a apporté une compréhension de la concentration géographique des infanticides, des origines de ce phénomène et son évolution vers des nouvelles technologies de reproduction, liées aux déterminations sexuelles et à l'avortement sexo-sélectifMy pH-D concentrates on the spatial patterning of sexual discrimination against girls in Tamil Nadu, South India. First, we have realized a historical view of infanticide around the world, and also analyzed the methods of sexual determination. Then we present a pattern of discriminations against women and girls and also the programs and legislations in their favor. We also focused on the perception of these practices, by the questioning of reproductive rights and ethics in India. My geographical analysis, always linked to an Asiatic context, consists, in the study of the diffusion of female infanticide and female selective abortion in India. For this purpose I use the computerized data base of Indian census, mainly the variables sex-ratio, sex-ratio at birth and sex ratios 0-6 years in India, South India and more precisely in the region of Kongu Nadu in Tamil Nadu. I also mapped the spreading of abnormalities of the sex ratio 0-6 years. Fieldwork provided several socio-cultural explanations and economic points to the geographical pattern. The gender practices in the caste of Kongus Vellalars Gounders were then analyzed with a comparison to the other castes of the village under study, but also infanticide in the region and the role of governmental programs and ONG. Then, we have analyzed one group of factors, responsible, of the sex ratio's mutation. This third field provides an understanding of such facts as the clustering of infanticide, the origins of this practice and its evolution towards new medical technologies linked with sexual discrimination. At his end, this research sketches out the south-Indian demographic perspectives which derive from these phenomenon
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Guilmoto, Christophe Z. "Un siècle de démographie tamoule : l'évolution de la population du Tamil Nadu de 1871 à 1981 /." Paris : Centre français sur la population et le développement, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35507953p.
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Lefèvre, Vincent. "La création artistique au Tamiḻ Nāḍu (VIe-XVIIIe siècle) : le commanditaire et l'artiste." Paris 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA030024.
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Ce travail cherche à mettre en lumière les conditions de la création artistique en pays tamoul. Les dates ont été imposées par les sources et vont de la fin du VIe siècle à la colonisation de l'Inde. Le cœur de l'étude est néanmoins constitué par la période chola. Dans une première partie sont analysés les documents à notre disposition : l'épigraphie, qui fournit des noms et des dates, et la littérature technique, qui présente une réflexion théorique produite parallèlement aux inscriptions. A partir de ces deux ensembles, la deuxième partie définit les principaux acteurs du processus de création : les commanditaires, les artistes mais aussi les intermédiaires entre ces deux catégories. La troisième partie met ces éléments en relation avec les œuvres produites afin de voir comment s'est déroulé le processus allant de la commande à la réalisation tout en tâchant de déterminer quelle était l'attente des commanditairesThis study aims to bring out the conditions of the artistic creation in the Tamil country. Chosen due to the available sources, the dates range from the end of the 6th century to the beginning of the colonial time in India. The core study, however, is the Chola period. The first part of the study is an analysis of the documents : epigraphy, on one hand, which gives dates and names, and technical literature, on the other, offering a theoretical reflection developed along with the inscriptions. With these two groups of sources, the second part defines the actors of the artistic process : the patrons, the artists as well as the go-betweens. The third part links these elements to the monuments and the artefacts, in order to establish how the process leading from the commissioning to the realisation took place. It also seeks to explain the intentions of the patrons
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Nanaumi, Yumiko. "Women of rice, women of millet : a comparison of female participation in wet and dry cultivation in Tamil Nadu, South India." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23233.
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Women's status in Indian agrarian communities has been discussed in terms of cultural and agricultural practices, which affect women adversely in the northwestern wheat region and favourably in the southern rice region. The correlation is tested by the female farm labour participation (FLP) rate and the juvenile sex ratio (JSR).I examine the correlation between women's contribution to agriculture and their status in wet paddy and dry millet regions in Tamil Nadu. Compared to northwestern India, the JSRs are more balanced and FLPs are high in both regions, yet the implications of high FLPs differ. Thanjavur shows a high female labour participation in peak seasons, but year-round underemployment. In Kongu, the cultivation of garden crops requires both male and female labour throughout the year.
The contrasts originate from varied factors such as ecology and irrigation, cropping system, the distribution of land wealth, and on- and off-farm employment opportunities.
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Manicom, Laure. "L'inconduite arraisonnée : enfermement à Ervadi-Dargah (Tamilnad)." Paris, EHESS, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002EHES0085.
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La thèse ne souligne pas une prédisposition culturelle mais rend compte d'une situation dont l'exception garde de toute généralisation, produit mouvant et atypique de la société sud indienne, précipité d'histoire régionale et coloniale, à la croisée des cultures musulmane et hindoue. L'enquête ethnographique prit pour objet un phénomène récent - aujourd'hui disparu - dont on ne pouvait augurer la stabiblité ni l'avenir : le développement ces quinze dernières années d'institutions privées de détention illicite à Ervadi (Tamil Nadu, district de Ramanathapuram). Leurs pensionnaires y sont conduits par la force, enchaînés deux par deux pendant un temps indéfini dont seul est maître celui qui décide de l'admission - un proche. Il s'agit de comprendre le contexte qui rend possible et légitime la violation des droits fondamentaux des personnes mises à l'écart - la malnutrition, les conditions sanitaires précaires, les sévices corporels, parfois, entraînent la mort. J'ai cherché à décrire le processus d'institutionnalisation des douze établissements dénombrés comptant au moment de l'enquête 493 pensionnaires. Quels sont les facteurs qui encouragent une forme de regroupement inédite au pays tamoul - certains conjoncturels, d'autres structurels? On observe leur concentration autour de l'enclos qui cerne le dargah, la tombe d'un saint musulman. La multiplication de ces entreprises va de pair avec sa fraîche renommée et la politique de développement mise récemment en oeuvre par son comité: on écrit une histoire qui atteste les vertues thérapeutiques du lieu en même temps que l'authenticité des héritiers. Il convient d'analyser les versions de l'histoire locale élaborées par les différentes communautés : les indous, premiers autochtones, les musulmans aux communautés hétérogènes se scindant en musulmans étrangers et natifs. Il s'agit, en outre, de démêler le réseaux d'influences et de subordinations locales, l'histoire qui les sous-tend faisant des représentants de la loi et de l'ordre, pourtant postés sur place, de souriantes potiches. On assiste à une extension de facto de l'immunité du dargah hors de ses murs. Ces établissements dénommés "Mental Hostels" prospèrent en raison de leur vocation affichée et de la nature du pouvoir - familial- qu'on leur délègue.
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Grafe, Hugald. "The history of Christianity in Tamilnadu from 1800 to 1975 /." Erlangen : Verl. der Ev.-Luth. Mission, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36667248q.
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Viguier, Anne. "Les villes du pays Tamoul au XIXe siècle : espace, pouvoir et société." Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0150.
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Cette thèse est consacrée à l'histoire urbaine du Tamil Nadu à l'époque coloniale. Il s'agit de dégager le rôle de la culture dans la construction de l'espace urbain et de comprendre comment le contexte colonial a pu modifier cette relation. La richesse des images de la ville montre l'importance du rôle joué par les villes dans l'histoire et la culture tamoule depuis l'Antiquité. Au XIXe siècle, l'armature urbaine tamoule constituait un semis étoffé dominé par une cinquantaine de centres majeurs. Le pouvoir colonial pénétra assez peu la société urbaine, même après la création des municipalités. La thèse étudie les changements qui affectèrent les plans et les paysages urbains et montre comment les citadins utilisaient l'espace urbain pour affirmer leur statut social. Les processions permettaient de définir publiquement les identités de caste et de religion. Au cours de la période, les citadins s'adaptèrent et inventèrent de nouveaux modes de relation avec le pouvoir politique, tout en préservant une grande part des traditions urbainesThis thesis focuses on urban history of Tamil Nadu during the colonial periode The aim is to show the role of culture in urban space construction and to understand how the colonial context may have changed this relation. A rich set of images shows the role played by cities in the tamil culture and history since the classical era. But the British were not aware of this inheritage. During the XIXth century, about 50 major urban centers dominated the urban framework. Each town preserved a singular identity. The colonial power penetration of urban society was superficial, even after the creation of municipalities. The thesis studies how urban plans and landscapes changed and shows how urban space was used by town-dwellers to defend their social status within the urban society. Religious and familial ritual processions were a way to define a specific cast or religious identity. During the studied period, new modes of relations with the political power were invented in towns and a great deal of traditions were preserved
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Jin, Shauna. "Transitional relief housing for tsunami victims of Tamil Nadu, India." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/36751.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 22).
In the wake of the recent tsunami that swept across Asia, there is a dire need to salvage and rebuild the lives and livelihoods that were swept away. The aim of this thesis project is to design and model a transitional shelter for the Indian region of Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is located on the southern coast of India, and was the region most affected by the recent tsunami. The transitional shelter should be a shelter that serves as an infrastructure that can be absorbed into a more permanent structure with the flexibility to promote future expansion. The design of the structure takes into consideration climactic concerns such as ventilation or seismic issues, and tries to suggest cultural continuity between the new architecture and previous architectures.
by Shauna Jin.
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Bernet, Jean-Marie. "Entrepreneurs et croissance urbaine dans une ville moyenne de l'Inde : exemple de Pollachi, district de Coimbatore, Tamilnadu." Bordeaux 3, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997BOR30029.
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En inde, comme dans de nombreux pays en voie de developpement, les progres de l'urbanisation se sont traduit par une croissance spectaculaire des plus grands foyers urbains. Les petites et moyennes villes sont tres souvent les laissees pour compte de ce processus. Pollachi, ville d'importance secondaire du district de coimbatore, est l'exception qui confirme cette regle. Depuis 1921 sa population est passee de 11 875 habitants a 127 180 en 1991 fait plus remarquable, cette croissance s'est accompagnee d'un developpement et d'une diversification de l'economie locale. Les activites traditionnelles : negoce des intrants et des produits agricoles, et les transports sont en plein essor. Depuis les annees 1970 le secteur artisano-industriel jusqu'alors embryonnaire est en expansion. Cette evolution temoigne de la presence dans la ville d'entrepreneurs. Ils sont, par les entreprises qu'ils ont creees, les moteurs de la transformation de pollachi. L'etude de cette "communaute" a dans un premier temps retenu notre attention. Les origines socio-economiques de ses membres, les motivations qui aboutirent a la creation d'entreprises ont ete analysees. Le troisieme volet de notre travail est consacre aux entreprises. Nous nous sommes successivement interesse aux conditions de leur creation et a leur vie. Par ce biais, les principaux problemes auxquels sont confrontes les entrepreneurs se sont reveles. Problemes financiers parfois insolubles conduisant a l'endettement chronique, problemes engendres par une insuffisante diversification des activites et une saturation de certaines branches. Ces difficultes se traduisent par de faibles volumes d'affaires nombre d'entrepreneurs ont des revenus tres modestes. D'autres, notamment les proprietaires de cliniques, affichent de belles reussites. L'etude des entreprises temoigne des forces et faiblesses de l'economie de pollachi. Malgre sa recente evolution l'agriculture et les activites qui lui sont liees conservent leur importance. La solution aux difficultes actuelles passe par une poursuite du processus de diversification de l'economie de la villePollachi a medium town of coimbatore district (tamlinadu) experienced between 1921 and 1991 a very high growth. Its population move from 11 875 inhabitants to 127 180. The development and diversification of the economy of the town are 2 stiking facts in that evolution. Up to the 70's the small industries were in an embryonic state. They are now becoming a full part of the economy of the town. Such an evolution attests the presence of entrepreneurs in the town. Thanks to their entreprises they are the mainsprings of the transformation of the town. This change is our first topic. The second one is the study of the entrepreneurs of the town. - all the persons who risked a capital as small it is are considered as entrepreneurs- the first stage of this analyse is an investigation in their familial and socio-economic background. This investigation shows that most of them belongs to the kongu vellala gounder caste and are landlords. The motivations for the establishment of the entreprises were of socio-economic order : will of economic diversification, to make use of idle funds ; or personal oder : to make use of technical and professional skills. The third stage of the study deals withe the entreprises. First we analyzed their creation : the origins of the capitals, the status of the entreprises, the kind of activity. Then we enquired in their daily life and economic results. In this way the problems encountered by the entrepreneurs came up. They can be summed up as did most of the entrepreneurs in : "lack of business". Sometimes there is such a "lack of business" that the entrepreneurs are enable to put back money in their business and are obliged to satisfy themselves with low incomes. Such situations lead to chronic debt. Problems are also generated by over competition, mismanagements due to a lack of education. Nevertheless there are some succes among the entrepreneurs of the town mainly among the clinic owners as well among the agro-industrialists. These problems can be solved by carrying on the development and the diversification of the economy of the town, improving the standard of education of the entrepreneurs and as far as small industries are concerned by improving the quality of the productions. Thanks to the increase in the number of entreprises pollachi turned from a market town into a medium town able to divert immigrants from coimbatore
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Guilmoto, Christophe Z. "Un siècle de démographie tamoule : évaluation des sources et analyse de l'évolution de la population du Tamil Nadu de 1871 à 1981." Paris 1, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989PA010601.
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Ce travail représente la première tentative de reconstitution de l'histoire d'une population régionale indienne, en l'occurrence l'état contemporain du Tamil Nadu forme par les régions tamoul phones du sud de l'Inde. La première partie de la thèse est consacrée à l'examen critique des sources, en commençant par le recensement indien qui fut la première institution de contrôle démographique mise en place par les Britanniques. Les défauts nombreux de nos données sont analysés d'un point de vue à la fois sociologique et statistique. La seconde partie cherche à reconstituer les principales données démographiques pour l'étude du Tamil Nadu, parmi lesquelles les populations totales par sexe et district, les flux migratoires intercensitaires (internationaux et interrégionaux) et les estimations du mouvements de la population de 1871 à 1981. La dernière et la plus longue partie de ce travail décrit les conditions changeantes de la démographie du Tamil Nadu. L'accent est mis plus particulièrement sur les phénomènes suivants: les dernières crises de subsistance et épidémies, la baisse de la mortalité après la première guerre mondiale, les fluctuations de la natalité en rapport avec la nuptialité, le développement et la concentration urbains, à partir de 1921, l'histoire des migrations internationales,. .This work is the first demographie study devoted to a specific regional population in India, I. E. The present day state of Tamil Nadu constituted by the Tamil speaking areas of south India. The dissertation's first part is devoted to the critical examination of the sources, starting with the census of India which was the first institution of demographic surveillance set up by the British during the last century. The numerous shortcomings of the data are analysed from a siociological and statistical standpoint. The second part endeavours to reconstruct the main demographic data over the period 1871-1981. Tamil Nadu's population by sex and district, intercensal migrants (both international and interregional) and estimates of the vital rates following various indirect estimation techniques. The last and biggest part of this work describes the changing conditions of population growth in Tamil Nadu. Particular stress is put on the following aspects of Tamil Nadu's population history: the last subsistance and epidemic crises, the decline of mortality after WW1, the fluctuations of the birth rate in relation with nuptiality, urban growth and concentration from 1921 onwarde, the history of international migration. .
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Veluthat, Kesavan. "The political structure of early medieval South India /." [New Delhi] : Orient Longman, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb358198528.
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Subramanian, Sharan Kumar. "Réflexion sur la phénoménologie moniste du traduire avec illustrations tirées de la traduction tamoule de l'Anthologie de la nouvelle québécoise actuelle." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/25422.
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La traduction a une longue histoire au Tamil Nadu. C’est une tradition qui remonte au IIIe siècle av. J.-C. Les toutes premières traductions sont des adaptations d’œuvres sanscrites, appelées transcréations, qui commencent pour de bon au VIe siècle de notre ère. La traduction d’œuvres anglaises débute au XIXe siècle. Au XXe siècle, les œuvres russes, françaises, latino-américaines et scandinaves sont traduites vers le tamoul. La traduction de la littérature québécoise voit le jour en 1995. Les premières traductions à paraître sont Le libraire de Gérard Bessette et Encore cinq minutes de Françoise Loranger. En 1997 apparaît la traduction de La vie en fuite de Denis Bélanger. En 2002, les pièces Les Belles-Sœurs de Michel Tremblay et Leçon d’anatomie de Larry Tremblay sont traduites. En 2008, La distraction de Naïm Kattan et l’Anthologie de la nouvelle québécoise actuelle sont traduites vers le tamoul. Dans la traduction tamoule de l’Anthologie de la nouvelle québécoise actuelle, nous constatons un nombre significatif d’omissions. Nos recherches montrent que les omissions peuvent être divisées en trois catégories, à savoir les métaphores, les descriptions d’ordre sexuel et les descriptions qui présentent des problèmes d’ordre linguistique. Dans la présente recherche, nous cherchons à découvrir les méthodes adoptées par les traducteurs indiens anciens et contemporains pour traduire les œuvres littéraires vers le tamoul, ce qui nous permettra de mieux comprendre les méthodes de traduction adoptées pour traduire vers le tamoul les nouvelles québécoises, en vue entre autres d’étudier le rôle du sens suggestif et du délice esthétique en traduction littéraire. Au moyen d’une lecture phénoménologique moniste des omissions, nous souhaitons relever l’importance de comprendre et de reproduire les huit correspondances, à savoir la corrélation, la compatibilité, la contiguïté, le rythme, les déterminants, les changements mimétiques, les émotions fugaces et le délice esthétique. La recherche devrait contribuer à mieux comprendre le rôle de l’interprétation dharmique, de l’herméneutique analogique et du principe des huit correspondances en traduction littéraire. Il convient de noter que notre objectif n’est pas de prescrire une approche globale qui s’étend à tout type de traduction, ni de décrire l’activité traduisante du point de vue de l’effet. Nous ne tenons qu’à ouvrir le débat sur l’art traductif par rapport à une nouvelle façon d’aborder la traductologie, en mettant l’accent sur ce que nous appelons la phénoménologie moniste du traduire.Translation in Tamil Nadu has a hoary past. It is a tradition that dates back to the 3rd century B.C. The very first translations into Tamil are adaptations of Sanskrit works, called transcreations that appear in the sixth century C.E. The translation of English works begins in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, Russian, French, Latino-American and Scandinavian works are translated into Tamil. The translation of Quebec literature gets under way in 1995. That year, Le libraire by Gérard Bessette and Encore cinq minutes by Françoise Loranger are translated into Tamil. In 1997, La vie en fuite by Denis Bélanger is translated into Tamil. In 2002, the plays Les Belles-Sœurs by Michel Tremblay and Leçon d’anatomie by Larry Tremblay are translated. In 2008, La distraction by Naïm Kattan and Anthologie de la nouvelle québécoise actuelle are translated into Tamil. Our analyses show that there are a significant number of omissions in the Tamil translation of the Anthology. The omissions fall under three categories, namely omissions of metaphors, omissions of sensual descriptions and omissions of words/phrases owing to lack of equivalents. This research seeks to discover the methods used by the ancient and contemporary Indian translators to translate literary works into Tamil. This would help us better understand the translation methods adopted to translate Quebec novels into Tamil, and the role of suggestive meaning and aesthetic relish in literary translation. Through a Monist Phenomenological reading of the omissions, we propose to stress the importance of comprehending and recreating the eight correspondences, namely the correlation, the compatibility, the contiguity, the rhythm, the determinants, the mimetic changes, the transient states of mind and the aesthetic relish. This research should contribute to a better understanding of the role of dharmic interpretation, analogical hermeneutics and the principle of eight correspondences in literary translation. It is worth noting that our goal is not to put forth a one size fits all approach that is suited for all kinds of translation, nor to describe the translation process from the point of view of aesthetic response. Our sole aim is to kick start the debate on the art of translation from the perspective of a novel approach to Translation Studies, focussing on what could be named the Monist Phenomenology of translation.
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Alm, Björn. "The un/selfish leader : Changing notions in a Tamil Nadu village." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Social Anthropology, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-948.
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'The un/selfish' leader explores notions of selfishness, as they were perceived by people in the village of Ekkaraiyur, Tamil Nadu, India, at a time they associated with thorough changes in their lives.
Discussing locally held notions about agrarian change, seen as causing the erosion of earlier village loyalties and leading to the emergence of a new type of leaders, the study focus on the censure of the alleged corruption of these leaders. Expressed in a rich repertoire of stories about the ideals of leadership and about the excellence of the past and foreign societies, the censure was routinely voiced in public debates and in everyday conversations.
Set against a background an increasing role of the state for the people in Ekkaraiyur, the censure of leaders implied a critique of the contemporary society they were taken to represent. Moreover, the study argues that the critique was grounded in evaluations of individualism and selfishness in human nature.
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Alm, Björn. "The un/selfish leader : changing notions in a Tamil Nadu village /." Stockholm : Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-948.
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Aruldoss, Vinnarasan. "Complexity, complicity and fluidity : early years provision in Tamil Nadu (India)." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/8944.
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Early years provision, which combines childcare and preschool education, has been considered vital for child development by theorists and practitioners. Within early years provision pedagogy is assumed to be both an enabling and constraining factor which can shape a particular experience of childhood and, possibly, prepare children for a particular adulthood. This thesis explores pedagogical processes and practices vis-à-vis children’s experiences in three different pedagogical contexts: a corporation nursery, a private nursery and an ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) Anganwadi centre in Chennai in Tamil Nadu (India). It explores the findings of a one year ethnographic study that involved observation/informal conversation with children and semi-structured interviews with teachers, care worker(s) and parents. The ethnographic study used methodological approaches from childhood research, adopted ethical positions from childhood studies and valued children as competent individuals that should be treated with respect throughout the research processes. The analysis of the empirical data uses the intersections of three concepts in the works of Foucault (subject), Butler (identity), Bourdieu (cultural capital) to illuminate and analyse the pedagogical processes and practices. The thesis characterises the different pedagogical contexts encountered in the study as: ‘activity centred’, ‘task centred’, and ‘care centred’. It explains that this context emerged in an on-going active process of negotiation, deliberation, reflection through ‘subjection’ and ‘resistance’. It demonstrates that children construct their embodied self-identity through everyday pedagogical/curriculum performativity and the teacher-children identities work within as well as outside pedagogical contexts. The empirical analysis identifies shame and distinction as key factors for pedagogical/curriculum performativity and argues that the embodied identities of children are fluid and contextual and that they are formed through the interaction of learning materials, academic ability/mastery, and bodily differences in the pedagogical contexts. It is argued that children employ cultural capital when (re)establishing home-nursery connections in different pedagogical contexts and that parents similarly use their cultural capital with a sense of ‘practical logic’ for decision making on matters related to early years provision, e.g. when recognising the transformative potential of children. The thesis findings suggest that there is an element of fluidity in pedagogical contexts and that the local cultural practices of teachers/care worker are reflectively integrated with minority world ideas when normative pedagogies are constructed. The thesis contributes to the development of childhood theory, by demonstrating that childhood is a complex phenomenon. At the policy level, the thesis makes recommendations for practitioners and administrators on how they can value local cultural knowledge, acknowledge reflexive practices of teachers/care workers, and equity issues in early years provision.
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Bruckert, Michaël. "Une géographie de la viande au Tamil Nadu (Inde) : statuts, espaces et circulations." Thesis, Paris 4, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA040132.
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L’augmentation présumée de la consommation de viande en Inde, pays parfois décrit comme étant principalement végétarien, nourrit de nombreuses spéculations. Cette thèse vise à étudier les recompositions du statut de la viande en Inde, notamment dans l’Etat du Tamil Nadu, en accordant une attention particulière à la dimension spatiale de cet aliment. En Inde, la viande reste marginale : sa consommation est régulée par des logiques religieuses, morales, médicales ou économiques. Ses réseaux d’approvisionnement sont structurés par des contraintes écologiques et techniques mais aussi sociales et symboliques. Les abattoirs sont des lieux de conflit sur les usages et les significations des produits carnés. La visibilité des boucheries dans l’espace public est fortement contrôlée. Ainsi, la viande, notamment celle de bœuf, devient un aliment politique, support de revendications identitaires. Mais l’urbanisation, l’industrialisation et la connexion à l’espace-Monde modifient progressivement le rapport des Indiens à la viande. La massification des circuits carnés ne peut être niée. Les exportations de viande de buffle s’envolent. Au restaurant, la consommation de viande, notamment de poulet produit de façon intensive, devient pour la classe moyenne de Chennai une pratique statutaire. Pour autant, la transition alimentaire parfois prophétisée apparaît être une hypothèse erronée. La banalisation de la viande, circonscrite dans l’espace, va de pair avec une extrême différenciation des pratiques, en fonction des types de viandes, des individus, des contextes. En Inde, le rapport à la viande, véritable « substance biomorale », contribue à dessiner des géographies matérielles et idéelles, façonnant des territoires et des circuits, définissant des distances réelles ou symboliques entre les hommes et les animaux ou entre les groupes sociauxThe fact that meat consumption is allegedly on the rise in India, a country often depicted as primarily vegetarian, feeds speculation. By paying special attention to the spatial dimensions of this foodstuff, this thesis aims at investigating the recasting of the meanings of meat in this country, particularly in the State of Tamil Nadu. In India, meat consumption is still marginal. Its consumption is religiously, morally, medically and economically regulated. Ecological, technical, social and symbolic constraints shape its networks of provision. The uses and significations of the different meats are contested in slaughterhouses. In the public space, the visibility of butcheries is under strict control. Thus, the issue of meat, and especially of beef, is highly negotiated within the political arena, being leveraged by identity claims. But dynamics of urbanization, industrialization and globalization appear to be gradually reconfiguring the relation that Indians maintain with meat. Undeniably, meat is becoming commoditized, mass-produced. Buffalo meat exports are soaring. At the restaurant, the consumption of meat, especially of intensively reared chickens, becomes a marker of social status for the middle classes of Chennai. Yet, the assumed food transition turns out to be a flawed assumption. The secularization and growing acceptance of meat is restricted to peculiar places. Practices are highly differentiated by types of meat, by individuals and by contexts. In India, the way people interact with meat, an actual “biomoral substance”, contributes to drawing material and immaterial geographies, to shaping territories and circuits, to fixing real and symbolic distances between people and animals and between social groups
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Rogers, Martyn Christopher. "Tamil youth : the performance of hierarchical masculinities : an anthropological study of youth groups in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421525.
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Yesudhasan, Thomas J. "Remote audiences beyond 2000 : radio, everyday life and development in South India." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2002. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/729.
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The core of this thesis is that radio remains an important communication tool for tribal communities living In remote hill areas of South India. Some of the more salient findings relate to media uses and preferences ot people, suggesting that sophisticated negotiations take place between audiences and media. These Include suspicion of television and its impact upon work practices and education, the organization of time and space to accommodate radio and television Into people's busy daily lives, and the recognition that radio may be a more Innovative medium than television. These conclusions have been reached from an In- depth qualitative audience ethnographic study of three tribal communities in Southern India. The Toda, Kola and Kannikaran are tribal communities living in Tamil Nadu, South India. The Toda and Kota live in the Nilgiri Hills. The Kannlkaran live in Kanyakumari district, the most Southern lip of India.
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Sridhar, Sanjay. "Community Farming in Tamil-Nadu - Revisiting Farm Architecture in the 21st Century." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554212160620224.
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Baby, Marianne. "Children's Perspectives on Religion : The Case of Christian Children in Tamil Nadu, India." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norsk senter for barneforskning, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-17554.
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This thesis is about Christian children's perspectives on religion in Tamil Nadu, India. More specifically the thesis seeks to explore how children view religion and how they seek knowledge about religion in their daily lives, examine what role religion plays in their everyday lives and examine how children's perspectives on religion influence their social practices. Various theories and concepts are used to analyze children's perspectives on religion. A broadened conception of the sociology of religion together with a broadening up of the conception of sociology of childhood has given this study an advantage to shed a new light on children and religion. A mosaic research approach involving multiple, qualitative methods of data collection have been used. The combination between several different participatory tools (see appendices) and the more traditional methodology of interviewing and observations provided me with a wellgrounded understanding of – and factual insights into – children's perspectives on religion. It has often been proved challenging for children to grasp what religion is. However, this study has found out that children's perspectives on religion were rather straightforward and related to something personal and everyday life experiences. Children in this research had their own personal experiences on religion and highly, idiosyncratic ways of thinking. Religion is constantly encountered in all the arenas of Christian children's lives in Tamil Nadu. This study has found that religion plays a major role in helping children actively negotiate their own religious lives in the overlapping spaces between children's and adults’ worlds; spaces of play, school and friendships. It was found out that children's perspectives on religion influence their social practices, and their social practices influence their perspectives on religion. Furthermore, the findings of this thesis reveal that viewing children either as human beings or human-becomings should be brought to the level of hybridism. From this study's theoretical examinations and empirical findings on both the social and religious aspects of children's lives, the artificial analytical 'being-becoming dichotomy' is both non-existent and fluid. Children are both human beings and social agents in their own right; and human-becomings in search of maturation seeking for changes and transformations in their social, spiritual/religious lives.
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Gorringe, Hugo. "Untouchable citizens : an analysis of the Liberation Panthers and democratisation in Tamil Nadu." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24632.
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In 1950 the constitution of independent India rendered the practice of untouchability a criminal offence. Special programmes of affirmative action were also instituted on behalf of the Untouchables, now known as Scheduled Castes, to offset centuries of deprivation. Theoretically the introduction of the universal franchise created a nation of equal citizens, and the reservation of parliamentary seats for the SCs guaranteed that they would be represented. The de jure abolition of untouchability has not, however, resulted in its de facto eradication (Desai 1978: 111). Structural and social inequalities have conspired to ensure the continuing subordination of the majority of the Scheduled Castes. Disillusionment with the inadequacies of the institutions of interest mediation has, since the 1970s, been channelled into extra-institutional mobilisation and protest for change. Drawing upon the example of civil rights activists in the United States, many of the SCs have rejected the appellations by which they are commonly known and have called themselves Dalits. Dalit is a Marathi word meaning ‘downtrodden’ and it has been adopted to symbolise the rejection of the caste system and the values that sustain it. Most authors have focused on the experience of Dalit movements in the north of India. This thesis charts the rise, and attempts an analysis of the Liberation Panther (LPs) movement in the southern state of Tamilnadu. The particular history of political development in the state, a form of Dravidian nationalism, resulted in the polity that was ideologically committed to the eradication of caste. Only in recent decades have autonomous Dalit organisations have been able to challenge the Dravidian hegemony. Using the insights of social movement theory this thesis charts the conditions of Dalit mobilisation in Tamil Nadu, its modes of protest and organisation and its impact in the state. Whilst much has been written about participatory ‘new social movements’, this thesis highlights the problematic of leadership and the dilemmas of caste-based mobilisation. Social movements, it is argued, are shaped by the culture from which they emerge - both in terms of their social and spatial practices. Most Dalits are poor, and continue to reside in segregated housing areas, but this thesis argues that they are increasingly assertive in their demand for equal rights and social respect. Of particular significance is the entry of the LPs into electoral politics in 1999. Dalit movements and parties may be flawed, but in challenging the status quo and opening up the political process to hitherto excluded groups of people, they are contributing toward the democratisation of Indian democracy.
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Nehlin, Maria. "Management of local irrigation systems and stakeholder perceptions in southern Tamil Nadu, India." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-131873.
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The irrigation tanks in Tamil Nadu are part of an irrigation system which has developedover centuries, they are man-made reservoirs of varying sizes and they are important sources ofirrigation water but also provide services such as flood control, silt capture, and ground waterrecharge. The tanks are now deteriorating, they are used less than before and their capacity islower because of poor maintenance. Other studies have found many possible explanations to thedeterioration of tanks, for example overuse of water, not enough de-silting of the tanks, orincreasing population pressure. The purpose of this study is to investigate how stakeholdersperceive the situation and the issues with the irrigation system, and to assess and compare howefficient the management of a state-owned tank and a private-owned tank is. Two cases ofirrigation tanks in southern Tamil Nadu were part of the study and interviews were conductedwith both farmers using the irrigation water in the tanks and with people who are involved in themanagement of the tanks. The study shows that the stakeholders perceive that there has been areduction in the water availability and that there are problems with poor or inadequatemaintenance, especially de-silting and maintenance of sluices in the tanks. The stakeholdersinterviewed also perceived funding of the management to be an issue. The study also showedthat overall the management of the tanks was not functioning well, although in the privateownedtank a local user organization was involved and the management of that tank seemed tofunction somewhat better than in the other tank because of it. Furthermore, in both irrigationtanks there were groups which seemed to have unequal influence over the tank‟s management,and the engagement in management among tank users was low.
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Wilson, Berlin. "A framework to support cloud adoption decision-making by SMEs in Tamil Nadu." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2017. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/23243/.
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Cloud computing is a disruptive technology which represents a paradigm shift in the way computing services are purchased and maintained within organisations. Due to its benefits like low capital, scalability and high reliability, the cloud infrastructure has the features and facilities to speed up Information Technology (IT) adoption in developing countries. However, moving data and applications to a cloud environment is not straightforward and can be very challenging as decision makers need to consider numerous technical and organisational aspects before deciding to adopt cloud infrastructure. There are existing models and framework available to support different stages of the cloud adoption decision making process. However, they are developed for technologically developed countries and there has been very little investigation done to determine whether the factors that affect cloud adoption are any different for a technologically developing country like India. This research aims to provide a framework to aid cloud adoption among SMEs in Tamil Nadu, a southern state of the Indian Union. The major contribution to knowledge is the framework, based on Scientific Decision Making (SDM) which has been developed to support SME decision makers at all the different stages of the cloud adoption decision making process. The theories of technology adoption like Diffusion of Innovation (DOI), Technology, Organisation and Environment (TOE) framework along with Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) forms the theoretical underpinnings of the research. The primary data was collected via two web-based questionnaire surveys among SME decision makers from Tamil Nadu. Six determinants of cloud adoption such relative advantage, compatibility, innovativeness, organisation size, external issues and industry type were identified. The findings identify that 12 organisational factor specific to SME location is a very important decision factor while planning cloud adoption. The proposed cloud adoption decision support framework (CADSF) includes two tools namely; cloud suitability assessment and cloud service identification. The framework provides a preliminary structure for developing a knowledge driven Decision Support System (DSS) to support cloud adoption among SMEs in Tamil Nadu. Finally, based on the findings of the research, it is expected with developments to the existing cloud infrastructure, especially the availability of reliable internet and increased awareness, more SMEs in Tamil Nadu would adopt the cloud computing infrastructure.
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Percin-Sermet, Charlotte de. "Caṇḍeśa le dévot à la hache, étude iconographique (Tamil Nadu VIIIème-XIIIème siècles)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040221.
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Il est de coutume de présenter Caṇḍeśa comme l’un des Nāyānar, ces saints śivaïtes du sud de l’Inde. Cependant, ilest le seul parmi ceux-ci à posséder un templion près du sanctuaire principal dans les grands temples à Śiva (Tanjavur,Gaṇgaikōṇḍacōḷapuram, Darasuram, Tribhūvanam). Caṇḍeśa est d’ailleurs considéré comme un assesseur (sanscrit.parivāradevatā) depuis le IXème siècle. Le but de cette étude est de montrer l’évolution de son iconographie du VIIIème siècle,moment où apparaissent ses premières représentations, jusqu’à la chute au XIIIème siècle de la dynastie Cōḷa qui anotablement encouragé son culte. Les sources textuelles nous apprennent que Caṇḍa, est, dans le Mahābhārata, l’un des centhuit noms de Śiva. Son origine est donc très ancienne. Parmi les tâches que Caṇḍeśa remplit on précisera qu’il est chargé dunirmālya, les restes du culte. D’autre part les inscriptions le mentionnent comme ayant la charge des biens du temple. Il a également une place dans le culte quotidien à Śiva. Ces prérogatives diverses expliquent les différentes formes iconographiques du jeune bhākta. Si à Bhairavakoṇḍa il apparaît comme un gardien, la période Pallava le montrera souvent dans le cadre d’une Caṇḍeśānugrahamūrti. À partir du IXème siècle, il prend place dans une petite chapelle située au nord-est du temple. Dans ces structures il est souvent figuré à deux bras, tenant la hachette dans une main, l’autre formant le gested’invitation au don (sanscrit. āhūyavarada mudrā). Sa popularité grandissant, des représentations à quatre bras et plusieursfaces sont apparues. Enfin, il a un rôle important dans les fêtes religieuses, pour lesquelles on a fabriqué des effigies en bronzele représentantIt is commonly admitted that Caṇḍeśa is one of the 63 śaivite South Indian saints, usually known as the Nāyānar. Butamong them, he enjoys a special place as he is the only one to whom a shrine is dedicated in very important temples such asTanjavur, Gaṇgaikōṇḍacōḷapuram, Darasuram, Tribhūvanam. In fact he was considered a parivāradevatā since the Cōḷaperiod. This study attempts to analyze the evolution of Candesa’s Images and the development of his different iconographicaltypes, from his appearance during the Pallava period (VIIIth century) until the XIIIth century. Textual sources help to determinethe personality of the young bhākta. The fact that Caṇḍa is mentioned as a name of Śiva in the Mahābhārata reveals that hisroots are very ancient. Archaeological and textual evidence shows that he was in charge of the nirmālya, the remains of thesacred offerings to Śiva. Cōḷa inscriptions mentioned him as «ādidāsa », the first devotee. He was recognized as an importantdeity of the South Indian pantheon during the medieval period. To fulfil his duties, Caṇḍeśa took several forms. During the earlyperiod of his evolution he could be considered as a watchman, as in Bhairavakoṇḍa, where he sits at the cave temple’sentrance. A little later, another iconographical form, the Caṇḍeśānugrahamūrti, showed how he was chosen and deified by Śiva.To take care of the sacrificial remains, shrines of Caṇḍeśa were built near Śiva temples (at the North-East corner). Inside hischapel, Caṇḍeśa was often represented as a two-armed deity holding the hatchet with one hand, forming the āhūyavaradamudrā with the other. As he grew popular his iconography was enriched by four-armed and many-headed sculptures. At thesame time bronze images were cast so that he was honoured to take part in several temple festivals
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Schuler, Barbara. "Of death and birth Icakkiyamman̲, a Tamil goddess, in ritual and story ; with a film on DVD by the Author." Wiesbaden Harrassowitz, 2004. http://d-nb.info/992328489/04.
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Desingu, Setty Erram. "The Valayar of South India /." New Delhi : Inter-India publications, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35749304g.
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Beining, Robin Marie. "Screening for cervical cancer: an exploratory study of urban women in Tamil Nadu, India." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2820.
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Cervical cancer is the single most common cancer in India, affecting an estimated 134,420 women in 2008. With access to early detection and basic treatments, most cases of cervical cancer are preventable. Moreover, if treatment is administered during the earliest stages of cervical cancer, 5-year survival rates can be increased to higher than 90 percent. Unfortunately, despite the availability of methods for prevention, more than 95 percent of women in India have never been screened for cervical cancer. Consequently, women in India are most often diagnosed during later stages of cervical cancer, significantly reducing survival prognosis. The objective of this study was to explore the role of awareness and knowledge of cervical cancer as a barrier to screening participation among urban women in Tamil Nadu; and further to identify the potential impact of increased cervical cancer awareness and knowledge on screening attitude. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to characterize existing levels of awareness and knowledge of cervical cancer and screening among 207 women from the metropolitan area of Chennai. The results suggest that the majority of women (69.6%) were not aware of cervical cancer and very few (16.4%) were aware of screening. Demographically, women with secondary levels of education or higher were significantly more likely to have heard of cervical cancer and screening. Of the women that were aware of cervical cancer screening, most reported receiving information through television (33%) or a healthcare provider (28.6%).
To describe the potential benefit of providing women with basic information about the secondary prevention of cervical cancer, levels of knowledge, measured before and after an educational session, were compared. This study further explored changes in associations between awareness, knowledge, perceived susceptibility, and screening attitude. It was observed that an overwhelming majority of women were receptive to participating in free cervical cancer screening, independent of previous knowledge of cervical cancer. Results also suggest that although lack of awareness appears to be a major barrier to participation in cervical cancer screening, providing women with information about cervical cancer has the potential to change the attitude of a significant proportion (58.3%) of women who were previously unreceptive to screening. Further, perceived susceptibility to cervical cancer appeared to be strongly associated with a positive screening attitude before and after receiving information. Finally, we examined and compared the socio-demographic characteristics of three subgroups of women: those who were receptive to screening without information, those who were receptive to screening after receiving information, and those who were not receptive to screening at either point. We found that younger, more educated women were receptive to screening without information. In addition, previously unscreened women who were less educated and illiterate in Tamil were most likely to acquire a positive attitude toward screening after receiving information. It also appeared that women who were most likely to be unreceptive to cost-free cervical cancer screening were more likely to be older and previously screened. These findings from our exploratory research with insights from additional comments made by several participants who were unreceptive to cost-free screening suggest that perceptions of free versus private healthcare may have influenced responses in this study.
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Lowson, Alice Adelaide Booker. "Routing-out portable antiquities : a biographical study of the contemporary lives of Tamil antiquities." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/29594.
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Developing the idea of an ‘object biography’, as defined by Kopytoff (1986), this thesis challenges a fixed, static concept of antiquities and their present meanings by focusing on the routes they travel through space and time as they circulate through the hands of unauthorised finders, dealers and collectors. The research has been carried out in India, focusing on the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. As a non-Western country with a period of colonial history, India is an ideal location to explore not just the diversity and mutability of these meanings but also the tensions between authorized and divergent viewpoints regarding the value and management of the past. My methodology has drawn on theoretical models from the social sciences that approach the production of meaning in and through material culture as an organic and on-going process of human-object relations. Through a process of qualitative surveying using purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews, two distinct object case studies have been devised and investigated: the circulation of structural and household antiques from the 19th and 20th century houses of the Nagarathar Chettiars, and the excavation of coins, beads, jewellery and figurines in the riverbeds of Tamil Nadu and their subsequent sale, collection and circulation. In the course of fieldwork I have recorded over 55 hours of interactions with 107 respondents in locations across Tamil Nadu, as well as Bangalore, Mumbai, Jodhpur and London. I have supported this data with photographs, fieldnotes, and internet sources. In my analysis of this data I have argued that many people in Tamil Nadu and South India feel a sense of distance and alienation from the world of ‘heritage’ as defined and managed by the government, while at the same time people are engaged in their own processes of meaning-making through the old objects they engage with and circulate on a daily basis. The objects studied in this thesis are not seen as pertaining to the ‘sleeping’ realm of antiquities and authorized heritage, but to the ‘waking’ realm of active circulation, use and transformation. Furthermore, in the variety of ways that people engage with and transform these objects we can see the negotiation of relationships with the past and identities in the present at a time of rapid social and economic change in India.
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Kiessling, Brittany L. "Ethnographic Investigations of Commercial Aquaculture as a Rural Development Technique in Tamil Nadu, India." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2560.
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Since the 1960s, international aid organizations and governments have invested millions of dollars in promoting aquaculture as a way to stimulate local economies and improve food security. India is one such country, incorporating aquaculture research and extension programs as part of their development plans as early as 1971. India’s aquaculture promotion efforts gained momentum in 2004, following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The government sees aquaculture as a post-disaster development tool and a method to increase community resilience in rural areas of India.
Aquaculture currently constitutes nearly half of global seafood production today. Due to this importance, and the attention such practices receive through funding and extension, many scholars have focused on the social impacts that aquaculture practices have on rural communities. In particular, scholars have investigated the effects of aquaculture on environmental conditions, food security, livelihoods, gender relations, and social conflict. However, more scholarship is needed concerning the historical legacies that have contributed to how aquaculture is promoted and practiced, particularly connections to the Green Revolution. Furthermore, there needs to be more research about commercial aquaculture as a post-disaster development strategy.
My research – based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork and archival analysis in Tamil Nadu, India – contributes to this body of literature. I synthesized post-development theory with that of environmental risk and vulnerability, building upon the work of scholars such as James Ferguson, Tania Li, and Piers Blaikie. My analysis uncovers large disparities between the goals of aquaculture development programs and actual aquaculture outcomes. I attribute this to the technocratic governance structure of the aquaculture industry, which leads to a lack of engagement and participation between aquaculture managers, researchers, and practitioners. This lack of engagement ultimately makes the communities in which aquaculture is being practiced more vulnerable to anthropogenic and natural disturbances. Additionally, I found that aquaculture practices in the study site are causing significant changes to local agrarian structures, particularly through changes to labor. These changes have implications for social stratification and disempowerment of women. Overall, these findings contribute to the anthropological study of aquaculture as well as to theories of post-development.
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Tummon, Nisa Mairi. "Gender and participation in rural community development in the Thevaram Basin, Tamil Nadu, India." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ58383.pdf.
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Sigloch, Sebastian. "Mobile Internet connectivity : exploring structural bottlenecks in Tamil Nadu using active Internet periphery measurements." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2018. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/703788/.
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Accessible and affordable access to the Internet is crucial for socio-economic progress in developing countries and reducing Digital Divide. The disparity in mobile broadband penetration between urban and rural areas in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu can be explained by per capita income disparities. However, despite the vast body of multidisciplinary research, there are still large gaps in understanding Tamil Nadu’s upstream Internet market structure and its impact on mobile broadband affordability. Moreover, there is a lack of research analysing the Internet market structure in developing countries using Network Analysis. This dissertation explores the presence of structural connectivity bottlenecks in the upstream Internet market for three mobile operator networks in Tamil Nadu. The exploration employs Complex and Statistical Network Analysis on primary data collected via active Internet periphery measurements through the Portolan application. The results obtained indicate the existence of hierarchical upstream Internet market structures for all operator networks. Moreover, the collected evidence indicates the reliance of mobile operator’s connectivity on Tier-1 Internet Service Providers, while also revealing new Autonomous System relationships. This collected evidence highlights the crucial role that the level of hierarchical structuring of upstream Internet market structures plays in determining affordability. We show that endusers’ prices per Megabyte increase with the level of hierarchical structuring, indicating the policy relevance of assessing Complex Network metrics to understand and address the hierarchical structuring of the relevant markets. In conclusions, this work indicates the importance of studying structural bottlenecks and connectivity hubs, as our evidence shows that the upstream Internet market structure also defines the bargaining powers exerted by Internet Service Providers, resulting in reduced competition and less affordable price plans. These results should also nudge policymakers’ efforts to consider the different roles of ‘bottlenecks’ and ‘hub-like’ Internet Service Providers when aiming to reduce the Digital Divide.
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Ferstenberg, Daniel S. "A case for the preservation of the Annamalai Hill Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, South India." FIU Digital Commons, 2004. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3316.
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This thesis explores the potential for historic preservation of a site celebrated in ancient Hindu scriptures and legends. The site is located in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India and is called Arunachala in Sanskrit, or Annamalai in Tamil. The Hill of Fire, the Red Hill, the Hill of Wisdom; the name has many meanings and throughout history has reflected important spiritual and cultural ideas. The symbolic connection of the Hill to the temple at its base celebrates the marriage of heaven and earth and is unusual in the history of Indian temple construction. In considering the site for preservation, this connection may have been overlooked. The site makes an important contribution to the cultural resources of the region and should be preserved in a sensitive way.
The objective of this thesis is to test the site against best available preservation standards and guidelines, and to demonstrate that the site is an important cultural resource that merits preservation. The thesis explores the connection of the temple architecture to the landscape architectural elements around the site and proposes preservation treatment recommendations.
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Sigloch, Sebastian. "Mobile Internet connectivity, exploring structural bottlenecks in Tamil Nadu using active Internet periphery measurements." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2018. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/703788/1/Sigloch_2018.pdf.
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Accessible and affordable access to the Internet is crucial for socio-economic progress in
developing countries and reducing Digital Divide. The disparity in mobile broadband
penetration between urban and rural areas in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu can be
explained by per capita income disparities. However, despite the vast body of
multidisciplinary research, there are still large gaps in understanding Tamil Nadu’s
upstream Internet market structure and its impact on mobile broadband affordability.
Moreover, there is a lack of research analysing the Internet market structure in developing
countries using Network Analysis. This dissertation explores the presence of structural
connectivity bottlenecks in the upstream Internet market for three mobile operator
networks in Tamil Nadu. The exploration employs Complex and Statistical Network
Analysis on primary data collected via active Internet periphery measurements through
the Portolan application. The results obtained indicate the existence of hierarchical
upstream Internet market structures for all operator networks. Moreover, the collected
evidence indicates the reliance of mobile operator’s connectivity on Tier-1 Internet
Service Providers, while also revealing new Autonomous System relationships. This
collected evidence highlights the crucial role that the level of hierarchical structuring of
upstream Internet market structures plays in determining affordability. We show that endusers’
prices per Megabyte increase with the level of hierarchical structuring, indicating
the policy relevance of assessing Complex Network metrics to understand and address
the hierarchical structuring of the relevant markets. In conclusions, this work indicates
the importance of studying structural bottlenecks and connectivity hubs, as our evidence
shows that the upstream Internet market structure also defines the bargaining powers
exerted by Internet Service Providers, resulting in reduced competition and less
affordable price plans. These results should also nudge policymakers’ efforts to consider
the different roles of ‘bottlenecks’ and ‘hub-like’ Internet Service Providers when aiming
to reduce the Digital Divide.
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Vincent, Aude. "Etude hydrologique et hydrogéologique du bassin sédimentaire côtier de Kaluvelli-Pondichéry, Tamil Nadu, Inde." Paris 6, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA066520.
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Ce bassin HELP-UNESCO situé en zone semi-aride à régime de mousson est représentatif des zones densément peuplées où des problèmes de réduction de la quantité et de forte minéralisation des eaux souterraines sont identifiés. Ses aquifères sont fortement sollicités pour l'irrigation depuis 1970 aux dépens des systèmes d'irrigation traditionnels. Après avoir validé et complété une base de données géoréférencées notre travail a permis de : caractériser le fonctionnement hydrologique, quantifier le terme de recharge vers les aquifères, quantifier le système aquifère multicouche, retracer son évolution depuis sa mise en exploitation (1950-2006). La pérennité de la ressource en eau est gravement menacée, notamment par une intrusion saline qui pourrait en quelques mois envahir la moitié de l'aquifère. Son arrivée aurait été jusqu'à présent retardée en raison de l'existence d'une poche d'eau douce "offshore". Il est donc urgent de mettre en place une gestion rationnelle des ressources en douce sur ce bassin.
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Langmann, Sten. "NGOs and poverty reduction in Tamil Nadu : exploring a knowledge-sharing for development framework." Thesis, Curtin University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/648.
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Poverty reduction remains a concern in both a global and Indian context, being a major objective of current development planning processes. The aim of this thesis is to explore an alternative post-colonial approach to the application of knowledge management to development, focussed on the problem of poverty reduction in the context of NGOs operating in Tamil Nadu. A qualitative research design was adopted, drawing on multiple sources of data, collected in Tamil Nadu. It was found that a Knowledge Sharing for Development (KS4D) framework emerged as a way how NGOs can more effectively share knowledge.
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CAVALCANTE, Marco. "LA LIBERALIZZAZIONE NELL'INDIA RURALE. UNO STUDIO SU TRE VILLAGGI NEL NORD DEL TAMIL NADU." Doctoral thesis, La Sapienza, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/916877.
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P, Murugesan. "Murugesan P, 2003. Harvesting, post harvest handling and conditioning of fruit and seed in ash gourd (Benincasa hispida (Thunb) Cogn), Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-3, 2003, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. Page 230." Dissertation/Thesis, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, 2003. http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/53315.
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Ash gourd seed productionExperiments were conducted in Ash gourd varieties, CO-2 and Kerala local to document the flowering behvaiour and changes during fruit and seed development maturation as influenced by varieties, season, position of fruits and seed on seed quality. An on farm trial for test verification of the best method of seed extraction was also conducted at seed production unit of Kondamuthunur Sathyamangalam taluk of Erode district. Fruits can be harvested 60 DAA in summer and 70 DAA in rainy season. In the present study seed production package has been discussed in Kerala Local and Co-2.
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Michiels, Sébastien. "Modernisation, marchés du travail et circulation en Inde : Une approche mixte et multi-scalaire des migrations de travail." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BORD0080/document.
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Le processus de libéralisation initié en Inde à partir des années 1980 s’est accompagné d’une multitudede changements économiques, politiques et sociaux qui ont participé à modifier l’organisation et lastructure de l’emploi. Ces changements structurels ont par ailleurs redessiné les pratiques migratoiresau gré des besoins de main-d’oeuvre. L’objet de ces travaux de recherche est d’étudier comment lastructuration des marchés du travail en Inde a participé à modifier les flux de migrations internes, maiségalement de s’intéresser à l’évolution de ces pratiques migratoires. Pour cela, nous proposons uneapproche multi-scalaire des liens entre marchés de l’emploi et mouvements migratoires, menéeconjointement à des niveaux micro et macro. Ainsi, après avoir effectué une revue de littérature desthéories migratoires, nous traitons dans une première partie les liens entre marché du travail etmigration de travail au niveau macro-économique. Pour cela, nous avons identifié pour les différentesrégions de l’Inde une typologie des marchés du travail à partir de laquelle les flux de migrations ontété spatialisés. Dans une seconde partie, le niveau micro a été privilégié et les résultats présentéss’appuient sur un travail de terrain mené entre 2010 et 2014 dans le Sud de l’Inde (Tamil Nadu). Ils’agit, à partir d’une approche mixte combinant des méthodes quantitatives et qualitatives, d’étudier lacirculation du travail en milieu rural tamoul. Cette démarche nous a permis d’identifier une variété deformes de migrations de travail aux logiques singulières ; nous parlons alors de diversification depratiques migratoiresThe multiple economic, political and social changes that occurred in India since the liberalizationprocess initiated in the 1980’s altered the organization and the structure of labour. These structuralchanges reshaped migratory practices depending on workforce demand. This dissertation examineshow the labour market structuration in India has contributed to changing internal migration flows andhow migratory practices evolved. Therefore, to identify the links between labour markets andmigration flows, this study combines macro and micro levels of analysis. The dissertation is organizedas follows. The literature review synthetizes migration theories. Then, in the first part, we propose amacroeconomic analysis of the links between labour market and migration. Through a labour markettypology elaborated for different regions of India, we spatialize migration flows. In the second part,with a microeconomic focus and a mixed approach that combines both qualitative results from ourfieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2014 and quantitative results, we study the evolutions oflabour migration in rural Tamil Nadu. We identify migration patterns and establish the existence of adiversity of migratory practices
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Bashir, Sajitha. "Public vesus private in primary education : comparisons of school effectiveness and costs in Tamil Nadu." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387917.
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Roy, Pallavi. "The political economy of growth under clientelism : an analysis of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Pakistan." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2013. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18261/.
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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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Fakhri, S. M. A. K. "Caste, ethnicity and nation in the politics of the Muslims of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1967." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/273399.
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Kelly, Diana Michelle. "Evaluating financial incentives for girls' education evidence from a natural experiment in Tamil Nadu, India /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/449187508/viewonline.
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Blomqvist, Gunilla. "Gender discourses at work : export industry workers and construction workers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India /." Göteborg : Department of peace and development research, Göteborg university, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40097558q.
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Tallotte, William. "La voix du serpent : les sonneurs-batteurs du periya mēḷam et le culte āgamique de Śiva : ethnomusicologie d'une pratique musicale au delta de la Kaveri (Tamil Nadu, Inde du Sud)." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040258.
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Le delta de la rivière Kaveri, vaste région fertile du Tamil Nadu, est en Inde du Sud l’un des berceaux de la culture brahmanique et, par extension, des traditions musicales karnatiques. Les sonneurs-batteurs du periya mēḷam, hautboïstes et percussionnistes de profession, traditionnellement attachés aux temples hindous de hautes castes, revendiquent ici – en référence à leur appartenance sociale et vis-à-vis de leurs collègues et voisins – leur suprématie en termes de connaissance et de compétence : connaissance du culte et de son répertoire, compétence instrumentale et expertise du domaine musical savant. Ce discours, récurrent et diversement illustré, n’a rien d’anodin : il est étroitement lié à des conditions de vie (socialement et historiquement marquées), un contexte religieux (le culte āgamique de Śiva), et une pratique artistique qui renvoie à des codes et des savoir-faire, un mode de transmission, une esthétique. Comprendre ce que disent et ce que font les musiciens nécessite donc – via l’utilisation de différents outils d’enquête (observation participante, entretiens, apprentissage du hautbois nāgasvaram, enregistrements in situ et sur demande, analyses, etc. ) – une étude à la fois indépendante et connexe de la musique et du contexte culturel. Monographique, ce travail invite donc aussi le lecteur à des questionnements méthodologiques plus larges concernant une discipline. Le dernier chapitre montre par exemple, à travers l’analyse syntactique d’un rituel et l’impact de celui-ci sur une forme musicale, de quelle façon les musiciens sont amenés à élaborer diverses stratégies performatives et, au-delà, comment musique et contexte peuvent être concrètement connectés afin d’apparaître – plus justement – comme deux éléments d’une même totalitéThe delta of the Kaveri River, vast and fertile area of Tamil Nadu, is one of the major birthplaces of the brahmanical culture and, by extension, of karnatic musical traditions. Oboists and percussionists of the periya mēḷam orchestra are professional musicians traditionally attached to high-caste Hindu temples and claim here – in reference to their social status and towards their colleagues and neighbours – their supremacy regarding their knowledge of the Hindu cult and its repertory, their instrumental and technical competences and their expertise in the grammar of classical music. This discourse, recurrent and variously illustrated, is not innocent: it is in fact closely linked to life conditions (socially and historically distinct), a religious context (the āgamic cult of Śiva), and an artistic practice which refers to a multitude of codes, a mode of transmission, an aesthetic. Therefore, understanding the world and conceptions of musicians require – via the utilisation of different methods (participative observation, formal or informal conversations, nāgasvaram oboe training, recordings in situ or on request, musical transcriptions and analysis, etc. ) – a study at the same time independent and related of the music and the cultural context. This monographic work also invites the reader to larger methodological reflexions regarding a discipline, i. E. Ethnomusicology. The last chapter, for instance, shows through the syntactic analysis of a ritual and its impact on a musical form, how musicians are induced to elaborate various performative strategies and, beyond, how music and context can be truly connected in order to appear as two elements of a same whole
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Perwez, Shahid. "Death before birth : negotiating reproduction, female infanticide and sex selective abortion in Tamil Nadu, South India." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538436.
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This thesis deals with the cultural and political underpinnings of female infanticide and sex selective abortion in contemporary South India. Based on a fifteen months' ethnographic fieldwork in western parts of Salem district in Tamil Nadu, I explore the ideas and practices around deaths of (un)born children - particularly in the context of issues of gender-selective child survival, use and control over new reproductive technologies for sex selection, fertility and reproduction. Elucidating further the ethnographic contexts of state and non-state (primarily NGO) interventions in these deaths, the thesis examines the new forms of governance on issues that affect contemporary Tamil women. I discuss three different discourses by the government, by NGOs, and by the communities on the meaning and context of these deaths including the ways in which these meanings and ideas are reconceptualised and re-configured into a changing social and cultural context of birth. My thesis, therefore, contributes to the anthropology of reproduction. The underlying questions of the thesis are: Why has female infanticide, which was claimed to be effectively controlled in nineteenth century colonial India, appeared in post-colonial (South) India - in the form of both sex selective abortion and female infanticide - in communities and regions where it was previously claimed to be unknown? What effects could these social practices have on contemporary women' s positions and their developments and vice-versa? In answering these questions. the thesis makes a significant departure from previous anthropological studies on female infanticide in India in that it does not solely look into one single unit (village/s in this case), but uses a multi-sited approach, covering a wider geographical area, i.e parts of Salem, Dharmapuri, and Erode districts of Tamil Nadu. The thesis also shifts from the purely demographic approach to female infanticide in that it does not generate a new data set on felmale infanticide. Rather, it engages with the institutional responses and their rhetoric on female infanticide and sex selective abortion.