Search for dissertations about: "Punjab India"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Punjab India.

  2. 1. Inside the Guru's Gate : Ritual Uses of Texts among the Sikhs in Varanasi

    Author : Kristina Myrvold; Tord Olsson; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; anthropomorfism; personification; liturgies; ritual practices; religious worship; sacred places; gurdwara; migration; counter-narrative; emic historiography; speech act theory; ritual studies; oral tradition; performance studies; guru; holy scriptures; Adi Granth; Guru Granth; Benares; Varanasi; Punjab; Sikhism; Sikhs; Religious Studies and Theology; Religion och teologi; social agency; Övriga religioner; Humanities; Humaniora; rites of passage; festivals; rites of affliction; Other Religions; religious education; Religionsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Summary: For religious Sikhs, the Guru Granth Sahib is a holy scripture which enshrines ontologically divine words and the teaching and revelatory experiences of historical human Gurus. Simultaneously the Sikhs have taken the concept of a sacred scripture much further than any other religious community by treating the Guru Granth Sahib as a living Guru invested with spiritual authority and agency to guide humans and establish relationships to the divine. READ MORE

  4. 2. Groundwater resources management and protection policies in India

    Author : Vikas Chaudhary; KTH; []
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    Abstract : Water is a basic human need, afinite source of life support system, having its economicvalues being the key to the prosperity. The effects ofindustrial-pollutant sources on the groundwater system wereevaluated at Ludhiana, Punjab, India. READ MORE

  5. 3. Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in North India. Prevalence, Diagnostic Criteria, Pathophysiological Aspects and Genetic and Non-Genetic Origin in the State of Punjab

    Author : Geeti Puri Arora; diabetes och endokrinologi Genomik; []
    Keywords : Gestational dabetes mellitus; oral glucose tolerance test; type 2 diabetes; prevalence; diagnostic criteria; genetic variant; ethnic groups; insulin secretion; insulin resistance;

    Abstract : Gestational diabetes mellitus(GDM) defines an unhealthy state of hyperglycaemia that develops in response to an otherwise normal physiological adaptive insulin resistance state during pregnancy. However, the exact plasma glucose levels differentiating the unhealthy GDM state from a normal pregnancy is unknown, and relies upon arbitrary cut off criteria based on associations with adverse health outcomes in mother and child. READ MORE