To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Telugu and Indic.
Journal articles on the topic 'Telugu and Indic'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Telugu and Indic.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Ghosh, Rajib, Partha Pratim Roy, and Prabhat Kumar. "Smart Device Authentication Based on Online Handwritten Script Identification and Word Recognition in Indic Scripts Using Zone-Wise Features." International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design 9, no. 1 (January 2018): 21–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijismd.2018010102.
Full textAbstract:
Secure authentication is a vital component for device security. The most basic form of authentication is by using passwords. With the evolution of smart devices, selecting stronger and unbreakable passwords have become a challenging task. Such passwords if written in native languages tend to offer improved security since attackers having no knowledge of such scripts finding it hard to crack. This article proposes two zone-wise feature extraction approaches - zone-wise structural and directional (ZSD) and zone-wise slopes of dominant points (ZSDP), to recognize online handwritten script and word in four major Indic scripts - Devanagari, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil. These features have been used separately and in combination in HMM-based platform for recognition purpose. The dimension reduction of the ZSD-ZSDP combination with factor analysis has shown the best performance in all the four scripts. This work can be utilized for setting up the authentication schemes with the Indic scripts' passwords thus rendering it difficult to crack by hackers having no knowledge of such scripts.
2
Bhaskararao, Peri, and Arpita Ray. "Telugu." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 47, no. 2 (July 14, 2016): 231–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100316000207.
Full textAbstract:
Telugu (tel) belongs to the Dravidian family of languages and is spoken by 7.19% of the population of India (Census of India 2001b). At different stages of its development over centuries, the vocabulary of Telugu has been considerably influenced by various languages, such as Sanskrit, Prakrit,2 Perso-Arabic and English. A major consequence of this influence is that the phonemic system of Telugu has been extended by additional sets of sounds. Thus, the aspirates /pʰ bʱ tʰ dʱ ʈʰ ɖʱ ʧʰ ʤʱ kʰ ɡʱ/ and fricatives /ʃ ʂ h/, absent in the native phonemic system, entered the language through Sanskrit borrowings. Similarly, /f/ entered the language through Perso-Arabic and English borrowings. Some of the sounds from Perso-Arabic and English sources were nativized, for example, Perso-Arabic and English phoneme /ʃ/ was rendered as /ʂ/, which had already entered the language through borrowings from Sanskrit/Prakrit; Perso-Arabic phonemes /qx ɣ z/ were rendered as /kkʰ ɡ ʤ/ respectively; and the English phoneme /θ/ was rendered as /tʰ/. English borrowings also resulted in re-phonemicization. In native Telugu vocabulary, [ɛ] and [ӕː] are allophones of /e/ and /eː/ respectively, but they acquire phonemic status when words borrowed from English are included in the total vocabulary of the language.
3
Katten, Michael. "Manufacturing Village Identity and Its Village: The View From Nineteenth-Century Andhra." Modern Asian Studies 33, no. 1 (January 1999): 87–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x99003133.
Full textAbstract:
Upon inquiring into a boundary dispute between Tooringi and the Dutch-owned village of Jagannaikpuram, Leveston G. K. Murray asked generally of inhabitants ‘how far they supposed their ground extended’. But on that day in April 1795, and to Murray's dismay, he ‘received no other answer than that they did not know’. L. G. K. Murray and Mr Topander, both East India Company officials based in Masulipatam on the Teluga-speaking Andhra Coast of Southeast India, then tried a different approach, and showed those gathered a ‘Gentoo Paper’ containing a Dutch account of the nature of the boundary between the two villages. The consensus among the Telugu-speaking onlookers, in fact, was that the document was in order. No one proposed any problems with its authenticity to those Company officers.
4
Mocherla, Ashok Kumar. "We Called Her Peddamma: Caste, Gender, and Missionary Medicine in Guntur: 1880–1930." International Journal of Asian Christianity 3, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25424246-00301005.
Full textAbstract:
The medical work carried out by Dr. Anna Sarah Kugler in the town of Guntur (1880–1930), which was a part of the Telugu speaking region of the erstwhile Madras Presidency, as a foreign medical missionary associated with the mission field of the then General Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, constitutes a significant phase in the history of medicine and gender in South India. Despite bringing about visible changes in gender perceptions of medical professions, strangely, she or her work finds no mention in the social science literature on history of medicine in modern South India in general and coastal Andhra Pradesh in particular. This paper explores the nature and patterns of definitive changes that gender roles and patriarchal structures among the Telugus residing in coastal Andhra Pradesh have undergone after coming under the influence of a mission hospital in Guntur established by Dr. Anna Sarah Kugler. By doing so, it also brings out an analysis on how this medical institution transformed the firmly-held traditional perceptions and stereotypes on the sources of illness, disease, and treatments, and in turn laid the foundation for modern medicine to establish itself in South India.
5
Reddy, Gautham. "The Andhra Sahitya Parishat: Language, nation and empire in colonial South India (1911–15)." Indian Economic & Social History Review 56, no. 3 (July 2019): 283–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464619852266.
Full textAbstract:
The Andhra Sahitya Parishat or the Telugu Academy as it was also known occupied a definitive role in the formation of a Telugu public and the development of Telugu literary activism in the early twentieth century. This essay revisits the early years of the Andhra Sahitya Parishat (1911–15) in order to examine questions related to the origins of ‘Telugu Classicism’ and its relationship to Indian negotiations with colonial modernity. By reviewing the Parishat’s membership, early interventions in public literary controversies, and its successful attempts to position itself as a nationalist intermediary, this essay produces new insights on the emergence and aspirations of an English-educated Telugu middle class. Ultimately, it demonstrates that Telugu Classicism was an integral dimension of early twentieth-century projects to modernise the Telugu language and constructively contributed to the imagination of Telugu as a ‘national’ as well as ‘classical’ language in an era of British imperialism.
6
Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti. "Two Bhaktas, One District: Revisioning Hagiography and Imagery in Telugu South India." Journal of Hindu Studies 12, no. 2 (August 1, 2019): 168–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiz015.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract The hagiography of the bhakti poet is often times far more elaborate than their compositions and can even determine the interpretation of their poetic productions (Pechilis 2011). The hagiography can exceed the spaces of written or orally composed poetry to shape the visual imagery of the bhakti poet-saint. This article examines two such instances of constructed hagiography and visual imagery in Telugu-speaking southern India, namely those of Siddhendra and Kṣetrayya. Situated within a few kilometres of each other in what is now known as the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, Siddhendra and Kṣetrayya are imagined as paradigmatic bhakti poet-saints whose compositions are integral to Telugu arts and performance. The similarity in hagiography and visual imagery across these two figures is a direct byproduct of twentieth-century Telugu proponents who made concerted efforts to position Telugu arts within a pan-Indian modernist framework of bhakti. Telugu scholars and performers invoke bhakti discourses and imagery to frame both Siddhendra and Kṣetrayya as Telugu bhakti poet-saints. In doing so, Telugu proponents imbue their arts with religious weight, while also positing the Brahmin-dominated areas of the Krishna district as the heart of Telugu performance culture.
7
Subrahmanyam, Mslb, V. Vijaya Kumar, and B. Eswara Reddy. "A novel method for segmenting and straightening of text lines in handwritten Telugu documents based on smearing and regression approach." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 3 (August 22, 2018): 1846. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.13286.
Full textAbstract:
In handwritten document images, segmenting text lines is a very challenging task due to various reasons like variability in intra baseline skew and inter line distance between text lines. So far, no work is reported in the literature for the straightening of handwritten Telugu languages. Telugu is one of the most popular languages of India that is spoken by more than 80 million people especially in South India. Telugu characters are mostly compound characters and that is way the straightening task of Telugu document is more challenging tasks than European languages. This paper introduces a novel approach for segmenting and straightening text lines of handwritten Telugu documents based on smearing and regression approach (SRA). This method initially performs preprocessing and estimates parameters by dividing into connected components of Telugu script. A horizontal and vertical run length-smearing algorithm is used in this paper to shape text lines. To identify text lines more precisely cubic polynomial regression is used between vertical midpoints of two blocks of compound handwritten Telugu characters. A simple logic is derived on this to achieve final process. We tested the proposed algorithm with three different kind of 1000 handwritten documents. The performance of proposed method is evaluated by using matchScore, detection rate, recognition accuracy and F-measure. The experimental results indicates the efficiency of the proposed method over the existing methods.
8
Chokkakula, Srinivas. "Transboundary politics of cooperation: Telugu ganga project, India." Regional Environmental Change 18, no. 6 (May 2, 2018): 1645–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1348-0.
Full text
9
MANTENA, RAMA SUNDARI. "Vernacular Publics and Political Modernity: Language and Progress in Colonial South India." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 5 (February 8, 2013): 1678–705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x12000212.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractThe late-nineteenth century in India, usually scrutinized for the emergence of anti-colonial nationalist thought and politics, witnessed broader, and potentially more radical changes in the making and re-making of political subjectivities as articulated within burgeoning vernacular public spheres. Vernacular publics coalesced around the emergence of new communicative forms, the formation of voluntary and political associations, and the restructuring of literary communities. It is within this context I place the writings of Gidugu Venkata Ramamurti (1863–1940). He proclaimed at the turn of the twentieth century that Telugu as a language had to be reformed in order for it to become an appropriate medium for the newly emergent Telugu public spheres. Through his study of linguistics, his commitment to educational reform, and his study of Telugu language and literature, Ramamurti became the spokesperson for a new Telugu that would be able to traverse the boundaries of modern genres of writing that flourished in the colonial era. Fully immersed in linguistic theories of the day, Ramamurti's concerns were primarily with language reform and its centrality in the remaking of political subjectivities.‘In this era there is an important challenge facing us. There is no Telugu word for ‘challenge,’ nevertheless, the word, ‘dhikaaramu’ or defiance, comes close. For that reason, I am calling this era, ‘dhikaara yugamu,’ the age of defiance. In the past, society was divided between free people and the enslaved. Soon, the enslaved defied the power of the free and freed themselves. In the past, women were not allowed to be educated nor were they allowed to work. Now they are asking themselves why they were not considered more productive in society? These days, women are performing all kinds of work. . . .Until recently, in most countries the wealthy held power. And now the poor are challenging the power of the rich’.1
10
Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar. "Issues of Identity in the Indian Diaspora: A Transnational Perspective." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 5, no. 1-2 (2006): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156915006777354482.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractIndia is unique for the magnitude of her diversities in terms of languages and regions, religions and sects, castes and sub-castes, rural and urban, food and style of dress, which are also reflected by her diasporic communities. There are diasporic communities formed on the basis of linguistic or regional identities such as Punjabis, Gujaratis, Sindhis, Tamils, Malayalees and Telugus. Global organizations such as Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), World Telugu Federation (WTF), and World Punjabi Organization (WPO), have recently emerged to preserve and promote the identities and cultures of Indians, uniting transnationally India and the global Indian diaspora. The past decade has witnessed a phenomenal dynamism among the diasporic communities, made possible by the recent advancement in technologies of travel, transport, and communications. Not only did these developments bring the diasporic communities and their motherland closer but they also facilitated in bringing together the members of their community dispersed around the world. The present article examines this emerging trend with the illustration of one of the important regional Indian diasporic communities, the Gujarati Diaspora. Gujaratis, the people from the central western parts of India, are one of the early Indian communities who have ventured out to different parts of the world for multiple reasons. Today, as one of the prominent Indian diasporic communities in the world, Gujaratis are successful not only in business, which is their first love, but also in professional fields such as technology, science, medicine, and business management.
11
Kamath, Harshita Mruthinti. "Kṣētrayya: The making of a Telugu poet." Indian Economic & Social History Review 56, no. 3 (July 2019): 253–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464619852264.
Full textAbstract:
Kṣētrayya is the attributed author of Telugu padams (short lyrical poems) dedicated to Muvva Gōpāla, a form of the Hindu deity Kṛṣṇa. Kṣētrayya is commonly described as a peripatetic poet from the village of Muvva in Telugu-speaking South India who wandered south to the Nāyaka courts of Tanjavur in the seventeenth century. Contrary to popular and scholarly assumptions about this poet, this article argues that Kṣētrayya was not a historical figure, but rather, a literary persona constructed into a Telugu bhakti poet-saint through the course of three centuries of literary reform. A close reading of selected padams attributed to Kṣētrayya reveals the uniquely tangible world of female sexuality painted by the speakers of these poems. However, these padams became sanitized through the course of colonial and post-colonial anti-nautch and Telugu literary reform. In line with this transformation, the hagiography of the poet Kṣētrayya was carefully molded to fit a prefabricated typology of a Telugu bhakti poet-saint. Countering the longstanding narrative of solo male authorship, the article raises the possibility that these padams were composed by multiple authors, including vēśyas (courtesans).
12
Chaubey, Ajay K. "Book Review: K. Purushotham, Gita Ramaswamy and Gogu Shyamala, Eds., The Oxford India Anthology of Telugu Dalit Writing." Contemporary Voice of Dalit 10, no. 2 (August 9, 2018): 251–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455328x18787255.
Full text
13
Raj, Solomon P. "Christian Song Tradition in India With Special Reference To Telugu." Exchange 29, no. 4 (2000): 353–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254300x00256.
Full text
14
Soneji, Davesh. "Living History, Performing Memory: Devadāsī Women in Telugu-Speaking South India." Dance Research Journal 36, no. 2 (December 1, 2004): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20444590.
Full text
15
Vijaya, M., S. Kanthimathi, C. R. Srikumari, P. Govinda Reddy, P. P. Majumder, and A. Ramesh. "A Study on Telugu – Speaking Immigrants of Tamil Nadu, South India." International Journal of Human Genetics 7, no. 4 (December 2007): 303–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09723757.2007.11886010.
Full text
16
Nakamura, Pooja R., R. Malatesha Joshi, and Xuejun Ryan Ji. "Investigating the Asymmetrical Roles of Syllabic and Phonemic Awareness in Akshara Processing." Journal of Learning Disabilities 51, no. 5 (July 7, 2017): 499–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022219417718201.
Full textAbstract:
In this study, we examine the relative contributions of syllabic awareness, phonemic awareness, and oral vocabulary knowledge in early akshara reading ability from Grades 1 through 5. The performance of 488 students in two states of South India, Karnataka (Kannada language) and Andhra Pradesh (Telugu language), was measured. Results from a commonality analysis indicate that there was an increasing independent contribution of syllabic awareness to Kannada and Telugu decoding through the five grades, but the unique contribution of phonemic awareness steadily declined through the five grades, as it became subsumed within syllabic awareness. The contribution of oral vocabulary knowledge did not present a clear pattern across the five grades. This study builds on a growing body of literature on the akshara orthographies to shed light on the precise nature of the developmental asymmetry in the dual syllabic and phonemic representation in akshara reading.
17
Rocher, Rosane, and Peter L. Schmitthenner. "Telugu Resurgence: C. P. Brown and Cultural Consolidation in Nineteenth-Century South India." Journal of the American Oriental Society 123, no. 4 (October 2003): 935. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3590025.
Full text
18
Good, Anthony, and Bruce Elliot Tapper. "Rivalry and Tribute: Society and Ritual in a Telugu Village in South India." Man 24, no. 2 (June 1989): 365. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2803336.
Full text
19
Babu, J. Madhu, and K. M. M. Krishna. "A Survey Analysis on TV Viewers: Unethical Issues in Telugu Drama Serials." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 16, no. 3 (July 24, 2020): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v16.n3.p1.
Full textAbstract:
Television in India has proven a most influential infotainment media powerful and popular among its audience. Television plays a vital role in the telecast entertaining program. Fiction has been a popular genre on Indian Television. A common habit among most of the Indian families is watching drama serials in the evening as one of the best time-pass activities i.e. why serials have become part and parcel of most of its viewer's lives. TV drama serials have become one of the most popular offerings. It affects people irrespective of gender, age, and other demographic variables. The study was conducted to throw light towards various Television viewing habits among the Telugu audience. A sample of 316 respondents from Amravati the new capital of the newly formed state of Andhra Pradesh was selected for survey analysis. Structured questioners were distributed to them and the responses were collected. A Chi-square test is used to analyze the collected data. The study also highlighted the opinions of viewers on Telugu drama serials. Focused group discussions have been conducted.
20
Putcha, Rumya S. "Between History and Historiography: The Origins of Classical Kuchipudi Dance." Dance Research Journal 45, no. 3 (December 2013): 91–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0149767713000260.
Full textAbstract:
This article examines the intertwined discourses and debates of classicism, linguistic regionalism, caste, and gender in the case of South Indian dance. By focusing on the dance form, Kuchipudi, from Andhra Pradesh, the first administrative region in India formed on the basis of language, this study exposes the important connections between identity politics and the creation of cultural icons, such as classical dance. This study deconstructs the paradox of Kuchipudi's classicization, as it has become historicized as a symbol of masculine, Brahminical, Telugu culture, on the one hand, and the projects of Indian modernity, which center on the iconicization of the female dancer, on the other.Through archival, discursive, and ethnographic analysis, this article examines how the construction of classicism in Kuchipudi dance creates and supports hegemonic versions of Telugu history. This focus extends previous studies of Indian classical dance by sustaining questions about the reification of the Kuchipudi dancing body, the implications that this has regarding the fate of hereditary courtesan dancers, and the discursive strategies that allow Brahmin male history and female dance practice to coalesce.
21
Cox, Jeffrey. "James Elisha Taneti. Caste, Gender, and Christianity in Colonial India: Telugu Women in Mission." American Historical Review 120, no. 3 (June 2015): 986–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/120.3.986.
Full text
22
Ricky Telleng, Aglius Triganus. "PERIKANAN TANGKAP KEMBUNG (RASTRELLIGER SP.) DI PERAIRAN SEKITAR TELUK BUYAT." Jurnal Teknologi Perikanan dan Kelautan 1, no. 1 (April 5, 2017): 51–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24319/jtpk.1.51-59.
Full textAbstract:
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menjelajahi indian makarel perikanan di Teluk Buyat oleh waktu penampilan dan lokasi memancing. Data harian makarel India penangkapan dikumpulkan selama periode Agustus 2004 sampai Mei 2009. Mereka ditangkap oleh nelayan menggunakan handline, drift gillnet dan pukat pantai. Makarel India tertangkap di Teluk Buyat terdiri dari Rastrelliger neglectus dan R. kanagurta memasuki lokasi memancing dalam jumlah besar dengan tiga bulan di setiap tahun. Musim nelayan terjadi dalam setiap enam bulan. Lokasi nelayan sekitar Teluk Buyat untuk Racun pulau
23
Seshasubramanian, Vani, Nirmal Kumar Manisekar, Aruna Devi Sathishkannan, Chandramouleeswaran Naganathan, and Saranya Narayan. "Next Generation Sequencing in HLA haplotype distribution among Telugu speaking population from Andhra Pradesh, India." Human Immunology 79, no. 8 (August 2018): 583–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.humimm.2018.05.005.
Full text
24
Seshan, K. S. S. "Telangana: History and the formation of a new state." Studies in People's History 5, no. 1 (May 11, 2018): 72–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2348448918759870.
Full textAbstract:
When the states’ reorganisation took place in 1956, Andhra Pradesh, enlarged by inclusion of Telangana, faced two contrary pulls. On the one hand, there was widespread pride in the Telugu language and culture, prevailing over the whole state, and, on the other, there was the legacy of the different histories of its two major parts, namely, coastal Andhra, long held under direct British administration, and Telangana, which had been a part for over two centuries of the largest princely state of India, Hyderabad. The paper examines how owing to this divergent legacy of the past, a union lasting for over half a century (1956–2014) proved unworkable, and separation became inevitable.
25
Kumar, Nita. "Reviews of Books:Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Formation in Nineteenth-Century Telugu-Speaking India Michael Katten." American Historical Review 108, no. 5 (December 2003): 1432–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/529994.
Full text
26
HIEBERT, PAUL G. "Rivairy and Tribute: Society and Ritual in a Telugu Village in South India. BRUCE ELLIOT TAPPER." American Ethnologist 16, no. 1 (February 1989): 176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.1989.16.1.02a00220.
Full text
27
Christopher, K. W. "Colonialism, missionaries, and Dalits in Kalyan Rao’s Untouchable Spring." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53, no. 1 (June 24, 2017): 140–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417708828.
Full textAbstract:
Dalit conversion to Christianity has a long history, predating Dr Ambedkar’s call for conversion in 1935. The contexts of conversion are many; however, the strong urge among Dalits to escape the oppressive, dehumanizing socio-spiritual condition remains the chief motive. The colonial administration, and even before that, the missionaries, were the first to make interventions in the lives of the Dalits, providing access to education, employment, healthcare, and mobility. Consequently many Dalits converted to Christianity en masse. However, post conversion, they became “doubly marginalized” (Omvedt, 2009) both in terms of caste and religion. Several attacks on Dalit Christians in colonial as well as post-independence India illustrate these two bases of victimization. A few writers, such as Bama, Imayam, and Raj Gouthaman, have attempted to explore the lived experience of Dalit Christians with a focus on caste within the Catholic Church. Kalyan Rao’s Telugu novel Antarani vasantham ( Untouchable Spring) is the first novel that seriously engages with the complex of Dalit conversions and in an epic fashion explores the lived experience and struggle of Telugu Dalits and Dalit Christians in history from the colonial times to the present. The primary focus of this article is to explore Kalyan Rao’s representation of Dalit experience using the optics of mission history and liberation and Dalit theologies, which I argue, enable us to contextualize the novel’s representation of Dalit habitus.
28
Iyengar, Radhika. "Using Cognitive Neuroscience Principles to Design Efficient Reading Programs: Case Studies from India and Malawi Cognitive Neuroscience to Design Literacy Programs." International Journal of Contemporary Education 2, no. 2 (July 21, 2019): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijce.v2i2.4394.
Full textAbstract:
The hidden crisis in education has come to light since the past decade. Millions of school-going children remain illiterate, even after spending 2-3 years in school. This paper explores a cognitive neuroscience driven method to improve children’s reading in two local languages--Chichewa (Malawi) and Telugu (Telangana, India). The paper first presents the science behind how children learn using this science-driven model. It then presents the process of contextualization of this literacy method for Malawi and Telangana, India. The contextualization and adaptation processes lead to some generalized principles that could be applied to other local language literacy programs. The study looks at sequencing of letters, font size and type, teacher training modalities as well as classroom delivery processes, which are all key components for any early literacy intervention. The study also focuses on cost-cutting measures to aid in full implementation and scale-up for a low resourced educational setting.
29
RAO, VELCHERU NARAYANA, and SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM. "Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India." Modern Asian Studies 43, no. 1 (January 2009): 175–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x07003368.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractThis essays deals with a neglected and significant strand of Indian political thought by describing and analysing the corpus known as nīti in the context of medieval and early modern South India (in particular with reference to the Telugu-speaking region). Works of nīti are presented here within a larger context, as they evolve from the medieval Andhra of the Kakatiyas into the Vijayanagara period, the Nayakas, and beyond. They are also opposed and contrasted to other texts written within the broad category of dharmashāstra, which seem to deal with a far more conservative project for the management of society and politics within a caste-based framework. Authors and compilers dealt with include Baddena and Madiki Singana, but also the celebrated emperor-poet Krishnadevaraya (r. 1509–29). An argument is made for the continued relevance of these texts for the conduct of politics in South Asia, into and beyond the colonial period.
30
Das, Bidhan Kanti. "The Effect of Inbreeding on Mortality and Morbidity among Telugu-speaking Populations of Kharagpur, West Bengal, India." International Journal of Anthropology 21, no. 2 (November 8, 2006): 151–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11599-006-9016-z.
Full text
31
VISWAMOHAN, AYSHA. "Code-mixing with a difference." English Today 20, no. 3 (July 2004): 34–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078404003062.
Full textAbstract:
In recent years, the sociolinguistic theory of code-switching and code-mixing has been a source of great interest among scholars worldwide. The phenomenon is common in such multilingual societies as India. Most known cases of code-switching are, however, restricted to the spoken form, in which English is liberally interspersed with such regional languages as Hindi, Marathi, and Telugu. What has not yet significantly caught the attention of scholars is the notion of such switching and mixing in print. This practice is however particularly prevalent among writers in popular magazines, who resort to written code-switching for a variety of reasons. The present paper endeavours to examine the causes of the popularity of this style of writing in the light of some accepted theories of multilingualism.
32
Mukhopadhyay, Lina. "Translanguaging in Primary Level ESL Classroom in India: An Exploratory Study." International Journal of English Language Teaching 7, no. 2 (July 15, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijelt.v7n2p1.
Full textAbstract:
In this paper, a series of ESL classroom observations of a teacher in an Indian primary level government run school are presented to show concrete uses of translanguaging. Translanguaging practices were based on the inputs the teacher received from a training programme on using multilingual strategies to teach language and content. It is observed that the teacher applies translanguaging to clarify concepts using contrastive elaboration, instruct students, practice discourse based management, prepare students for classroom activities, and help them communicate. She also reflects upon her experience of translanguaging which shows her plans to use students’ L1 more systematically like by drawing lexical and form based comparisons between Telugu, Hindi (L1s) and English. Instances of use of translanguaging or fluid ways of communicating using two or three languages by this teacher and her experiences in using this approach help in validating the concept for advancing school skills in students from low SES groups who would have not otherwise been able to understand the lessons if taught in the strict monolingual mode.
33
Putcha, Rumya S. "The Mythical Courtesan." Meridians 20, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 127–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15366936-8913140.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract This article interrogates how and why courtesan identities are simultaneously embraced and disavowed by Brahman dancers. Using a combination of ethnographic and critical feminist methods, which allow the author to toggle between the past and the present, between India and the United States, and between film analysis and the dance studio, the author examines the cultural politics of the romanticized and historical Indian dancer—the mythical courtesan. The author argues that the mythical courtesan was called into existence through film cultures in the early twentieth century to provide a counterpoint against which a modern and national Brahmanical womanhood could be articulated. The author brings together a constellation of events that participated in the construction of Indian womanhood, especially the rise of sound film against the backdrop of growing anticolonial and nationalist sentiments in early twentieth-century South India. The author focuses on films that featured an early twentieth-century dancer-singer-actress, Sundaramma. In following her career through Telugu film and connecting it to broader conversations about Indian womanhood in the 1930s and 1940s, the author traces the contours of an affective triangle between three mutually constituting emotional points: pleasure, shame, and disgust.
34
Kusuma, I. Dewa Gede. "Musik Indie Sebagai Praktik Perlawanan Terhadap Rencana Reklamasi Teluk Benoa, Bali." Jurnal Ilmiah Cakrawarti 3, no. 1 (July 7, 2020): 20–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.47532/jic.v3i1.133.
Full textAbstract:
This study aimed at analyzing indie music movement as an anti-reclamationmovement at Benoa Bay, Badung Regency, in 2013 – 2018. There were three problems analyzedin this study; the representation of indie music as a resistance practice towards Benoa Bayreclamation plan, the ideology behind the music as a resistance practice towards Benoa Bayreclamation plan, and the significance of the resistance practice towards Benoa Bay reclamationplan. This study applied qualitative method with interviews, document studies and observation astechniques of collecting data. The obtained data were analyzed by using the theories ofKnowledge Power, Practice and Semiotics.There were three conclusions drawn from the analysis. Firstly, in its movement ofrefusing reclamation plan at Benoa Bay, the indie music made efforts to represent people’saspirations through the lyrics of the songs performed in the anti-reclamation demonstrations.Through the articulation of the anti-reclamation message in music, the people felt that theiraspirations were represented in the music. Secondly, the ideology behind the anti-reclamation movement was environmental conservation ideology and culture. The lyrics of the songsarticulated that the reclamation would damage the environment and disrespectful to the Balineseculture. Thirdly, the significance of the indie music’s resistance practice was seen from theintense aspirations from the people to cancel Presidential Regulation 51 in 2014, so thatreclamation plan could be cancelled.
35
Das, Bidhan Kanti, and D. P. Mukherjee. "Inbreeding Effects on the Growth in Stature among Telaga Boys and Girls of Kharagpur, West Bengal, India." Anthropologischer Anzeiger 65, no. 1 (March 13, 2007): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/65/2007/87.
Full text
36
Friesen, Dwight H. "How Karunamayudu (1978) Became an Evangelistic Tool: Implications for Understanding Evangelicals and Media." Exchange 41, no. 2 (2012): 120–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157254312x638319.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract It has not been uncommon in the history of Jesus in film for commercial movies of Jesus’ life to be conscripted for Christian evangelism around the world. Cecil B. DeMille’s The King of Kings (1927), John Krish and Peter Sykes’ Jesus (1979), better known today as The Jesus Film, and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004) are but three notable examples. Each of those movies, however, was first produced in America for American audiences. In the case of Karunamayudu (1978), a Telugu commercial movie of Jesus’ life, the target audience was South Indian viewers raised on a steady diet of mythological and social films and immersed in a pluralistic religious environment unlike any Western society at the time. In this essay I explain how and why this film, with its unique production history, was co-opted by evangelicals for Christian witness in India.
37
Rajesh, Mudivedu Shroff, and Nandikotkur Padmaja. "Now I know Dorothy!" Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances 70, a1 (August 5, 2014): C1314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1107/s2053273314086859.
Full textAbstract:
"Our message is – dare I say – crystal clear," observed UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in her opening remarks at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 20 January 2014. At exactly the same time some 6480.2 miles away in a school at Hyderabad, India echoed a message "Now I know Dorothy" this was an excited exclamation from hundreds of high school children. The occasion was an IYCr2014 outreach programme motivated and supported by the President of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Professor Gautam R. Desiraju. The occasion was an IYCr2014 outreach programme that matched IYCr2014 goals and objectives. The project next moved to smaller places. To make IYCr2014 relevant specifically to young students in villages and small towns, it was thought that the student audience must be comprised from non-English medium schools. This prompted translating "Crystallography Matters!" from English to a widely spoken (60 million) South Indian language called Telugu. the next step was to prepare power point presentations in Telugu, prepare crystallography related simple multiple choice questions, quiz papers, buy chocolates to represent crystallization process in making chocolates, sugar candy (Kalkand) to show them real crystals so that students connect to the subject with ease. Then travel to schools and start with an introduction to what and why is IYCr, demonstrate uses of crystals with examples, tell them why we cannot use microscope to "see" the inside of crystals, lecture, demo interactive sessions and so on .The presentation involved introducing science behind crystallography, explaining how to grow crystals, relevance to everyday life with references to NaCl and other medical uses. Sessions end with taking questions, ask mass questions like who is Dorothy, poster readings, who is Bragg, valuations of quiz papers and distribution of prizes, chocolates and sugar candy. Finally Crystallography Matters! books are given to the students and copies to school libraries.
38
Rangkuti, Nurhadi. "TELUK CENGAL : LOKASI PELABUHAN SRIWIJAYA?" Berkala Arkeologi 37, no. 2 (December 11, 2017): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.30883/jba.v37i2.206.
Full textAbstract:
Archaeological researches in southeast coast of Sumatra find archaeological prove of Srivijaya era (7-13 AD). Settlement sites located along tidal swamp rivers near shoreline. Srivijaya communities lived on house on stilts from wood on the wetlands. The artifacts came from aboard, eg. Chinese ceramics, beads from India and glasses from Persian found with local artifacts. Also found boats of Southeast Asia tradition use sewn plank and lashed-lug technique. These artifacts represent maritime activities in southeast coast of Sumatra. Estimated southeast coast of Sumatra, which facing Strait of Bangka, is an archaeological settlement area of Srivijaya and also pre Srivijaya periods. This one have the harbour and the port. This paper tried to identify one of the archaeological settlement area which estimated as an entreport of Srivijaya period. This area located in Bay of Cengal, District of Ogan Komering Ilir, Province of South Sumatra. Remains of activity area concentrated in Lumpur River basin and empties into Java Sea. Identification an archaeological settlement area in Bay of Cengal based on archeological data analysis, textual and maps resources, environment and position of Bay of Cengal in global maritime networks of SrivijayaPenelitian arkeologi di pesisir tenggara Sumatra menemukan bukti-bukti arkeologis yang sezaman dengan berkembangnya Sriwijaya di Sumatra (7-13 M). Situs-situs hunian mengelompok di tepi aliran sungai rawa pasang surut. Situs-situs tersebut berada di hilir sungai yang lokasinya relatif dekat dengan garis pantai sekarang. Penduduk masa Sriwijaya tinggal pada rumah-rumah panggung bertiang kayu di lahan basah. Artefak-artefak yang ditemukan sebagian besar berasal dari luar negeri, seperti keramik Cina, manik-manik dari India dan kaca-kaca dari Persia dijumpai bersama dengan barang-barang lokal, seperti barang-barang dari tembikar. Ditemukan pula perahu-perahu kuna tipe Asia Tenggara berupa perahu kayu yang dibuat dengan teknik papan ikat (sewn plank) dengan menggunakan tali ijuk dan juga menggunakan pasak kayu. Bukti-bukti arkeologis tersebut menunjukan adanya aktivitas kemaritiman di pantai tenggara Sumatra. Diperkirakan pantai tenggara Sumatra yang berhadapan dengan Selat Bangka dan Laut Jawa merupakan kawasan okupasi masa Sriwijaya dan masa sebelumnya yang dilengkapi bandar pelabuhan. Tulisan ini berupaya mengidentifikasi salah satu kawasan situs di pantai tenggara Sumatra yang diperkirakan sebagai permukiman dan bandar pelabuhan masa Sriwijaya. Kawasan itu berada di Teluk Cengal yang terdapat di pantai timur Kabupaten Ogan Komering Ilir, Provinsi Sumatera Selatan. Tinggalan arkeologis terkosentrasi di daerah aliran Sungai Lumpur yang bermuara di Laut Jawa. Upaya mengidentifikasi kawasan situs di Teluk Cengal dilakukan berdasarkan analisis data arkeologi, sumber tertulis dan peta, keadaan lingkungan dan posisi Teluk Cengal dalam jaringan pelayaran maritim global masa Sriwijaya
39
Et. al., M. Varaprasad Rao,. "Automated Evaluation ofTelugu Text Essays Using Latent Semantic Analysis." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 5 (April 10, 2021): 1888–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i5.2267.
Full textAbstract:
The most productive strategy to improve students' ability to write is to have direct and as much as possible teacher input. However, the workload of the teacher is greatly increased. Automated systems are increasingly required to help students write essays. In the field of educational assessment technology, automated test evaluation is becoming more and more common. We present a framework that is modelled on the programme, following which the school-teachers in the BPDAV School and Govt. High School Hyderabad, Telangana, India present the automatic evaluator of student essays in the Telugu language. Language skills; the structure of the essay and the contents that fit the subject are the principal requirements for evaluating the essays. In this context, we have established a scheme focused on latent semantical analysis and the theory of rhetorical structure. The method has been evaluated in more than 600 different essays, written in different manuscripts by schoolchildren. Overall 0.82 with the teacher's assessment was achieved in our method.
40
Kidiyoor, Gururaj H., and Prashant V. Yatgiri. "Kannada movie industry in India: strategies for survival." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 7, no. 3 (July 28, 2017): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eemcs-12-2016-0226.
Full textAbstract:
Subject area Strategy. Study level/applicability This case can be used on a strategic management course in the second year of an MBA programme, any special elective course on the media and entertainment industry and in executive education programmes to demonstrate the application of strategic management concepts and frameworks. Case overview The Indian film industry was the largest in the world and the seventh largest in terms of revenue. Significant number of movies were made in languages such as Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada, with Hindi commanding the highest number. The film industry in Karnataka made movies in the Kannada language. The industry was plagued by a host of issues with the industry contributing just 2 per cent of the revenues and box office success rate at just around 25 per cent. The state government had set up Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy with the objective of promotion and development of the movie industry in Karnataka. The Chairman of the academy, Shailesh Singh, was extremely concerned about the poor success rate of Kannada movies and was contemplating various options of reviving the ailing Kannada movie industry. Expected learning outcomes The expected learning outcomes are as follows: application of strategic management frameworks in the context of the movie industry; analysis of industry issues from the long-term and short-term perspectives; study of different entities in the movie industry and the roles they play and their interdependence; applying learning to suggest survival strategies in an extremely competitive market; and insights into the role of government in the media/entertainment industry. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.
41
Babu, J. Madhu, and S. Raja Rao. "Indian Press Coverage of Farmers’ Suicides in Andhra Pradesh: A Content Analysis." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 14, no. 2 (March 5, 2019): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v14.n2.p3.
Full textAbstract:
<p>India, consisting of 16 percent of world population subsists only on 2.4 percent land resources. Agriculture is the only source of livelihood to the two third of the population which gives employment to 57 percent of the workforce. Agriculture in India is often regarded as gambling with monsoons, because of its almost exclusive dependency on precipitation from monsoons. The failure of monsoons leading to a series of droughts, lack of better prices, exploitation by middlemen, and Gene Modified (GM) seed companies who are selling expensive cotton seeds and fertilizers, all of which have led to a series of suicides committed by farmers across India. Farmers' suicides are a complex phenomenon. Since the 1990s farmer suicides in India have made headlines. The journalist Palagummi Sainath highlighted that 17,500 farmers were suicides between 2002 to 2006. The government figures show 14,000 farmers took their own lives in 2011. The total number of farmers’ suicides crossed 3 lakh mark till in 2014. That most suicides occurred in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala and Punjab. This study seeks to investigate news items on farmers’ suicides in the Indian newspapers. A quantitative content analysis was adopted in this research. This study used two English dailies i.e. The Hindu and The New Indian Express and two Telugu dailies i.e. Eenadu and Andhrajyothi were taken for analysis. It is not a random sample. In this, a purposive sample method was adopted. The selection time period was one year i.e. from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2015. Keeping in view ten subject categories have been mainly identified for this research. All the data collected were analyzed simple percentage and mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Chi-square have been used for analysis. </p>
42
Rachmad, Dwi Swasono. "Review Named Entity Recognition dengan Menggunakan Machine Learning." Jurnal Sains dan Informatika 6, no. 1 (June 17, 2020): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.34128/jsi.v6i1.204.
Full textAbstract:
NER atau Named Entity Recognition yang sering dikenal sebagai salah satu komponen utama dari sistem pertanyaan jawaban. NER memiliki cara tradisional yang selanjutkan dikembangkan sebagai salah satu komponen untuk mendapatkan informasi dengan mengekstraksi kata dan terdapat teknik yang dapat difokuskan pada tahap terakhir. Pada artikel ini dapat diketahui dengan melakukan beberapa pendekatan telah digunakan oleh beberapa peneliti dalam meneliti fungsi NER sebagai ekstraksi informasi kata. Name Entity Recognition atau NER pada berbagai penerapan yang telah dilakukan penelitiannya. NER memiliki fungsi sebagai ekstrasi dari kata yang dapat memberikan informasi terkait kalimat atau kata-kata. Berdasarkan pada penelitian dapat diketahui terdapat beberapa masalah pada sistem penjawab pertanyaan yang masih merupakan bidang yang menarik untuk dilakukan pada bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa India khususnya Telugu, bahasa Arab, dan NER pada kelas nama, lokasi, organisasi, dan lainnya menghasilkan hasil yang baik dan akurasi tinggi. Namun NER yang tidak dilakukan pada kelas lokasi seperti tanggal, waktu, dan tempat serta tidak menggunakan data yang besar untuk ekstrasi dalam NER. Dalam hal ini, NER akan dimanfaatkan untuk machine learning yang lebih baik untuk mengenal berbagai kata atau elemen eksraksi dari suatu kata.
43
Verma, Harish. "CLASSICAL EXPERIMENT IN CINE MUSIC." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 3, no. 1SE (January 31, 2015): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i1se.2015.3404.
Full textAbstract:
Indian films cannot be imagined without music. The hallmark of Indian cinema is its vibrant music. Indian films, whether they are in any language (ie Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Kannada or Malayalam), music predominates. Music is their basic element in films made in regional dialects like Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Bandeli, Chhattisgarhi etc. Most of the films in India are made in Hindi language which are popular all over the world. Hence, we will discuss about Indian films by keeping Hindi films at the center.
संगीत के बिना भारतीय फिल्मों की कल्पना भी नहीं की जा सकती। भारतीय सिनेमा की पहचान उसका सषक्त संगीत ही है। भारतीय फिल्में चाहे वे किसी भी भाषा (अर्थात् हिन्दी, तमिल, बंगाली, मराठी, तेलुगु, कन्नड़ या मलयालम) की हों, संगीत उनमें प्रमुख होता है। क्षेत्रीय बोलियों जैसे भोजपुरी, राजस्थानी, बंुदेली, छत्तीसगढ़ी आदि में बनने वाली फिल्मों में तो संगीत ही उनका मूल तत्व होता है। भारत में सर्वाधिक फिल्में हिन्दी भाषा में बनती हैं जो विश्व भर में लोकप्रिय होती हैं। अतः आगे हम भारतीय फिल्मों की चर्चा हिन्दी फिल्मों को केन्द्र में रखकर ही करेंगे।
44
Lal, B. Suresh. "Impact of Globalization on Socioeconomic and Health Conditions a Quantitative Study of Adivasis." European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 1, no. 2 (March 29, 2021): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2021.1.2.28.
Full textAbstract:
The process of globalisation has made an unprecedented change in indigenous people's lives worldwide. However, the degree of exploitation and marginalisation vary from State to states and tribal group to group. It examines that younger age group is more than 40%, the majority of Adivasis are illiterates. More than 70 per cent of samples are male and married, and they follow a nuclear family system. Fifty-three per cent of Adivasis are residing in small huts, their religion is Hindu, and they speak the Telugu language. Sixty per cent of respondents are cultivator with below three acres of land, and their annual income is below 14,000/ rupees. It shows that majority of Adivasis are in poverty. Twenty-three per cent of the respondent is suffering from Anaemia health problems, followed by 19 per cent of Blood Pressure, 15 per cent Diabetes, 13 per cent Tuberculosis, Nine per cent Gynecological problems, in the study area. The globalisation has adversely impacted socio-economic aspects, including marriage, dressing patterns, and food habits of Adivasis in the study area of Telangana State, India.
45
Siddikah, Fatimah, Ihsan Nurkomar, and Damayanti Buchori. "Pengaruh Ketiadaan Inang terhadap Biologi Reproduksi dan Perilaku Parasitoid Apanteles taragamae Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)." Jurnal Perlindungan Tanaman Indonesia 22, no. 1 (July 27, 2018): 108. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jpti.33323.
Full textAbstract:
Apanteles taragamae Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is a gregarious larval endoparasitoid of cucumber moth Diaphania indica Saunders (Lepidoptera: Crambidae). The success of biological control using parasitoids depends on reproductive behavior of adult female parasitoids, especially those related to the host availability that can affect oviposition behavior. The objectives of this research is to study the effect of host deprivation against reproductive capacity and searching and handling time behavior of A. taragamae. The study was conducted by depriving adult females of A. taragamae of host for 1, 2, 3, 4 days after emergence (virgin females with no oviposition experience) and experienced females. The parameters observed were the number of eggs laid and parasitization on the first day after treatment, actual fecundity, ovary egg load, potential fecundity, longevity, searching and handling time of the first host after treatment,. The results showed that host deprivation affect the number of eggs laid on the first day after treatment, ovary egg load , searching and handling time of host. Adult virgin females of A. taragamae without oviposition experience has more eggs laid on the first day after treatment, but has a slower searching and handling time for the first host after treatment than females with oviposition experience.IntisariApanteles taragamae Viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) merupakan parasitoid larva utama dari Diaphania indica Saunders (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) yang bersifat gregarius. Keberhasilan pengendalian hayati menggunakan parasitoid sangat tergantung pada perilaku reproduksi imago betina parasitoid, terutama yang berhubungan dengan ketersediaan inang yang dapat memengaruhi perilaku peletakkan telur. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mempelajari pengaruh ketiadaan inang terhadap perilaku dan kapasitas reproduksi parasitoid A. taragamae. Penelitian dilakukan dengan cara memberikan perlakuan berupa ketiadaan inang selama 1, 2, 3, dan 4 hari setelah kemunculan A. taragamae menjadi imago (ketiadaan inang di depan) dan setelah A. taragamae mendapatkan inang terlebih dahulu (ketiadaan inang di belakang). Parameter yang diamati adalah jumlah telur yang diletakkan pada hari pertama setelah perlakuan, total telur yang diletakkan, sisa telur dalam ovari, potensi produksi telur, lama hidup imago A. taragamae, serta waktu pencarian dan penanganan inang pertama setelah ketiadaan inang. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa perlakuan ketiadaan inang memberikan pengaruh terhadap jumlah telur yang diletakkan pada hari pertama setelah perlakuan, jumlah telur yang tersisa dalam ovari, serta waktu pencarian dan penanganan inang pertama setelah perlakuan. Imago A. taragamae pada perlakuan ketiadaan inang di depan meletakkan telur yang lebih banyak pada hari pertama setelah perlakuan, namun memerlukan waktu lebih lama dalam mencari dan menangani inang pertama dibandingkan imago A. taragamae pada perlakuan ketiadaan inang di belakang.
46
Mekala, Shailaja, Avanthi Paplikar, Eneida Mioshi, Subhash Kaul, Gollahalli Divyaraj, Gillian Coughlan, Ratnavalli Ellajosyula, et al. "Dementia Diagnosis in Seven Languages: The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III in India." Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 35, no. 5 (March 19, 2020): 528–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acaa013.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Objective With the rising burden of dementia globally, there is a need to harmonize dementia research across diverse populations. The Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination-III (ACE-III) is a well-established cognitive screening tool to diagnose dementia. But there have been few efforts to standardize the use of ACE-III across cohorts speaking different languages. The present study aimed to standardize and validate ACE-III across seven Indian languages and to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the test to detect dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in the context of language heterogeneity. Methods The original ACE-III was adapted to Indian languages: Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu, Tamil, and Indian English by a multidisciplinary expert group. The ACE-III was standardized for use across all seven languages. In total, 757 controls, 242 dementia, and 204 MCI patients were recruited across five cities in India for the validation study. Psychometric properties of adapted versions were examined and their sensitivity and specificity were established. Results The sensitivity and specificity of ACE-III in identifying dementia ranged from 0.90 to 1, sensitivity for MCI ranged from 0.86 to 1, and specificity from 0.83 to 0.93. Education but not language was found to have an independent effect on ACE-III scores. Optimum cut-off scores were established separately for low education (≤10 years of education) and high education (>10 years of education) groups. Conclusions The adapted versions of ACE-III have been standardized and validated for use across seven Indian languages, with high diagnostic accuracy in identifying dementia and MCI in a linguistically diverse context.
47
Muralidharan, Karthik, and Venkatesh Sundararaman. "The Aggregate Effect of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-Stage Experiment in India *." Quarterly Journal of Economics 130, no. 3 (February 27, 2015): 1011–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjv013.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh that provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two-stage lottery-based allocation of vouchers that created both student-level and market-level experiments, which allows us to study the individual and the aggregate effects of school choice (including spillovers). After two and four years of the program, we find no difference between test scores of lottery winners and losers on Telugu (native language), math, English, and science/social studies, suggesting that the large cross-sectional differences in test scores across public and private schools mostly reflect omitted variables. However, private schools also teach Hindi, which is not taught by the public schools, and lottery winners have much higher test scores in Hindi. Furthermore, the mean cost per student in the private schools in our sample was less than a third of the cost in public schools. Thus, private schools in this setting deliver slightly better test score gains than their public counterparts (better on Hindi and same in other subjects), and do so at a substantially lower cost per student. Finally, we find no evidence of spillovers on public school students who do not apply for the voucher, or on private school students, suggesting that the positive effects on voucher winners did not come at the expense of other students.
48
Dhusiya, Mithuraaj. "Shape Shifting Masculinities: Accounts of maleness in Indian man-to-animal transformation horror films." Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 12, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 61–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/aov.2011.1.3932.
Full textAbstract:
University of DelhiUnlike the werewolf myth, on which there is a significant corpus of takes in Hollywood cinema, Indian horror films abound in snake-, tiger- and gorillatransformations. Most of these shape-shifting monsters represent aberrant subjectivities that set in motion a cycle of destruction and redemption within these narratives. This article will explore how the male body in Indian horror films acts as a site of different bodily discourses that permits a reading of socio-cultural crises within the societal framework. Although there are almost a dozen Indian horror films to date that deal with such shape-shifting monsters, this article will limit itself to studying one Hindi film Jaani Dushman (1979, dir. Raj Kumar Kohli) and one Telugu film Punnami Naagu (1980, dir. A. Rajasekhar). The following core questions will be explored: do these narratives challenge the constructions of hegemonic masculinity? What departures from normative masculinity, if such a thing exists at all, take place? How do these narratives use horror codes and conventions to map the emergence of different types of masculinities? How can these bodily discourses be correlated with various contemporary socio-political issues of India?
49
Raghuramaraju, A. "Book Reviews : PETER L. SCHMITTHENNER, Telugu Resurgence: C.P. Brown and Cultural Consolid ation in Nineteenth-Century South India, Delhi: Manohar, 2001, pp. 324." Indian Economic & Social History Review 39, no. 4 (December 2002): 448–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001946460203900410.
Full text
50
Iyer, Gowri K., Avanthi Paplikar, Suvarna Alladi, Aparna Dutt, Meenakshi Sharma, Shailaja Mekala, Subhash Kaul, et al. "Standardising Dementia Diagnosis Across Linguistic and Educational Diversity: Study Design of the Indian Council of Medical Research-Neurocognitive Tool Box (ICMR-NCTB)." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 26, no. 2 (December 12, 2019): 172–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355617719001127.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractObjectives:While the burden of dementia is increasing in low- and middle-income countries, there is a low rate of diagnosis and paucity of research in these regions. A major challenge to study dementia is the limited availability of standardised diagnostic tools for use in populations with linguistic and educational diversity. The objectives of the study were to develop a standardised and comprehensive neurocognitive test battery to diagnose dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to varied etiologies, across different languages and educational levels in India, to facilitate research efforts in diverse settings.Methods:A multidisciplinary expert group formed by Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) collaborated towards adapting and validating a neurocognitive test battery, that is, the ICMR Neurocognitive Tool Box (ICMR-NCTB) in five Indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam), for illiterates and literates, to standardise diagnosis of dementia and MCI in India.Results:Following a review of existing international and national efforts at standardising dementia diagnosis, the ICMR-NCTB was developed and adapted to the Indian setting of sociolinguistic diversity. The battery consisted of tests of cognition, behaviour, and functional activities. A uniform protocol for diagnosis of normal cognition, MCI, and dementia due to neurodegenerative diseases and stroke was followed in six centres. A systematic plan for validating the ICMR-NCTB and establishing cut-off values in a diverse multicentric cohort was developed.Conclusions:A key outcome was the development of a comprehensive diagnostic tool for diagnosis of dementia and MCI due to varied etiologies, in the diverse socio-demographic setting of India.