Search for dissertations about: "Bengali"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word Bengali.

  1. 1. The ocean of love : Middle Bengali sufi literature and the fakirs of Bengal

    Author : David Cashin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bengali; Religiös litteratur; Sufism; Tantrism;

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  2. 2. The Kolkata Intellectuals and Bengali Modernity

    Author : Kerstin B. Andersson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Kolkata; West Bengal; Intellectuals; Elite groups; Intellectual discourse; Postcolonialism; Relativism; Subaltern Studies; Methodology; Anthropology; Social Change; Development; Media; Kolkata; Västbengalen; intellektuella; elitgrupper; intellektuell diskurs; postkolonialism; relativism; subaltern studies; metod; antropologi; social förändring; utveckling; media;

    Abstract : The aim with this thesis is to explore and enhance the understanding of methodological questions in anthropological analysis. I focus my main argument on topics taken up in antiorientalist and postcolonial approaches. Analysis is closely related to political issues and an analysis include a critical reflection and deconstruction. READ MORE

  3. 3. Contested Belonging : An Indigenous Peoples Struggle for Forest and Identity in Sub-Himalayan

    Author : B G Karlsson; Socialantropologi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Rabha; anthropology; indigenous people; forest; wildlife conservation; India; ethnic mobilisation and Christian conversion.; cultural identity; Cultural anthropology; ethnology; Kulturantropologi; etnologi;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the modern predicament of the Rabha or Kocha people, their survival in the forest and their quest for identity. Rabhas are one of India's indigenous or tribal people, and they live in the jungle tracts where the Himalayan mountains meet the plains of Bengal. READ MORE

  4. 4. Democracy and violent separatism in India : Kashmir in a comparative perspective

    Author : Sten Widmalm; Axel Hadenius; Subrata Mitra; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Violent Separatism; Democracy; Ethnicity; Nationalism; India; Kashmir; Jammu and Kashmir; Pakistan; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Statskunskap; Political Science;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the factors that led to the breakdown of democracyand the rise of violent separatism in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1980s. Usingnew empirical material collected mainly in India and Pakistan, it is argued thatit is a mistake to see an ethnic factor as the main cause of the conflict in Jammuand Kashmir. READ MORE

  5. 5. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. The Context and Significance of a Modern Hindu Personalist

    Author : Ferdinando Sardella; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bhakti; Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati; Bengal intellectual life; Bhaktivinoda; caste; Chaitanya doctrines; colonialism; Gaudiya Math; globalization; India religion 20th century; missionaries; modern Hinduism; postcolonialism; Vaishnavism Vishnuism; Vedanta; Vivekananda; worship Hinduism ; Modern Hinduism; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Abstract : This study explores the life and work of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the school of Chaitanya (1486-1534), who, at a time that Hindu non-dualism was most prominent, managed to establish a pan-Indian movement for the modern revival of traditional personalist bhakti that today encompasses both Indian and non-Indian populations throughout the world. To most historians, the period between 1815 and 1914 is known as Britain’s Imperial Century, when the power of British cultural influence was at its height, most especially in Calcutta, India, the jewel of the British crown. READ MORE