This thesis looks at the historically segregated city of Pondicherry. Once a symbol of French colonial power, the small urban area of city was divided into “White Town” and “Tamil Town” in order to maintain political and ...

This thesis is an analysis of contemporary Indian foreign policy from the vantage point of India’s recent engagements in the Arctic. By analysing what is argued to be an ‘Indian Arctic discourse’ that emerged between India’s ...

This thesis discusses the implementation of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in Rajasthan. Looking specifically at two factors, the role of the Gram Panchayat leader/the Sarpanch and the ...

I denne studien blir det sett på sysselsetting av arbeidere til tekstilfabrikker i nord og sør India og hvordan arbeidsgiverne ved tekstilfabrikken går fram for å rekruttere arbeidere. Denne studien er gjennomført ved ...

Bruken av to (eller flere) språk i en og samme samtale kalles kodeveksling. Det anses som en naturlig del av flerspråkliges språkrepertoar og brukes enten bevisst eller ubevisst. Målsettingen med denne studien var å finne ...

This thesis concerns Indian middle class men s fear of violence in public spaces. It attempts to broaden the perspective of the implications of fear of violence. Both the public and academic discourses on violence in public ...

This thesis is based on texts available of Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar s (1906-1973) ideology. Golwalkar's texts focus heavily on spirituality in connection with nationhood and service, even worship, of the nation, and many ...

Oppgaven er resultatet av et feltarbeid jeg gjorde i Himalaya. Oppgaven handler om et liten Pahari (fjell) språk som brukes i Himachal Pradesh i Nord-India. Pahari språk er lite kjente, og bortsett fra Nepalesisk er disse ...

How do the female members of the urban poor population in Delhi view and interact with the government? This thesis seeks to give the answer in light of a public service delivery collaboration between state and civil society: ...

Sammendrag Denne oppgaven baserer seg på materiale fra en skjønnlitterær skrivekonkurranse jeg utviklet og ga tittelen: I dine sko – In Your Shoes – तुम्हारी नज़र से (tumhari nazar se). Konkurransen var utlyst i India og ...

Most of the urban poor in India already face lots of difficulties, and the consequences of environmental problems further reinforce these difficulties. This paper focuses on the urban poor women in Saboli, a slum area ...

This thesis is an exploration of the politicisation of caste in contemporary India through looking at the identity politics of a group of Dalit activists. ‘Dalit’ as a concept is political in nature and attempts to reformulate ...

In resent scholarship on Hindu-Muslim composite culture in India much emphasis has been laid on interreligious tolerance and co-existence as the main factor for composite culture to develop and maintain. This thesis takes ...

Today microfinance has become a familiar term that many associate with financially sustainable poverty reduction. Others, on the other hand, argue that it make poor people’s lives even more rigid by making them slaves of ...

Indian authorities have developed an extensive set of environmental laws and policies, but have in many instances failed to prevent environmental degradation. There are several factors contributing to the gap between theory ...

Korrupsjon er en kjent problematikk både innen internasjonalt næringsliv og bistandsarbeid. Det er også en oppfatning at korrupsjonsnivået i regionen Sør-Asia er høyt, noe man blant annet kan se på Transparency Internationals ...

In this thesis I explore the affect positive discrimination has on the Scheduled Caste (SC) students on University of Hyderabad (UoH) in India. The aim is to analyze how reservation policies on central and state level in ...

Nepal, vinteren 2007: Etter ti år preget av væpnet konflikt, synes endelig folket å ha fått fred. Optimismen råder, og i kjølvannet av fredsprosessen kommer marginaliserte grupper på banen. Kvinner, som tradisjonelt har ...

Bakgrunn Pakistanske innvandrere utgjør i dag den største undergruppen av innvandrere i Norge. Innvandringen fra Pakistan begynte tidlig på 1960-tallet og var opprinnelig arbeids¬innvandring, hvor de fleste som kom var ...

Sayyid Abu’l-A‘la Mawdudi (1903-1979) was one of the most prominent Islamic revivalist thinkers of the twentieth century. He wrote more than 150 books and treatises on different aspects of Islam, such as jihad, the Islamic ...

In this paper I explore the ways in which women in a village called Badhiyagaun in the hills of Western Nepal speak about the experience of being a woman, mediated by metanarratives of nation, development and modernity. ...