The thesis examines the application of the hermeneutical methodology in the intercultural dimension of the philosophy of consciousness. The theories of textual meaning that are evolving from the hermeneutical movement more ...
This research attempts to understand the manifestations of caste in an urban context, through a qualitative field study of a residential locality in the city of Delhi. It primarily focuses on Dalits, the members of ...
This dissertation studies the acoustic phonetic properties of vowels in Assamese as spoken in five geographical regions of Assam: Tinsukia, Jorhat, Nagaon, Nalbari and Barpeta. The first part of the dissertation reports ...
Tea plantations in Assam brought about significant modifications in the physical environment along with the well-documented socio-economic and political transformations. The thesis explores the making and un-making of tea ...
Education aids in the process of individual personality development, enhances knowledge, skill and character-building, enables one to survive different challenges of life, adjust with the surroundings and as a whole, ...
The thesis addresses the issues related to food demand estimation for the Indian state of Assam through exploiting both official (NSSO) as well as survey data. Motivation for taking up this research is twofold. First, ...
The thesis investigated the risk factors for social anxiety as well as its effects, particularly with regards to emotions and affect. 411 Indian undergraduate students participated in this study. Broadly, this thesis ...
Just-war theory is a set of rules that aims at just practices in war. The theory represents a belief in justice at the commencement, during, and after war by overcoming presumed general antagonism between law and arms. The ...
Social accountability mechanisms (SAMs) allow transparency and accountability of local self-governing institutions (LSGIs) in the implementation of development programs. Participatory governance literature considers social ...
Biofuels have caught the attention of the world as a source of renewable energy which can provide energy security, advance rural development, mitigate climate change, and foster international trade. India developed the ...
This dissertation discusses the phonological characteristics of Deori, a Tibeto-Burman language belonging to the Bodo-Garo group which is listed as a ‘definitely endangered’ language in UNESCO (2009). Deori is considered ...
Human memories are far from accurate as the process of its formation involves variables that can lead to its reconstruction and distortions. This leads to people remembering events and facts that never happened in reality. ...
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has categorised the ecosystem services into provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural that ensures security, basic materials for good life, good health, social relations, and ...
The archaeological site of Kamakhya is a living temple of Goddess Kamakhya who is worshipped in a non-anthropomorphic form as a yoni (vulva) with no physical manifestation along with the Dashamahavidyas. The present study ...
Rural organised manufacturing industries in India are essentially capitalist enterprises, with focus on profits. Economic theory points towards a link between profit rate and long-term growth in output. This thesis adopts ...
Student mobilization has been an important aspect of social movement studies. Student mobilizations for political reforms have taken place in different parts of the world. The student movements of Hong Kong and Taiwan for ...
The present study attempts to examine the nature, process, and organisation of scientific collaboration in rice biotechnology research in India. The present study from Sociology of Science and Technology (SST) perspectives ...
Writing in English from Northeast India is gradually emerging as an interesting and promising body of literature and makes for an exciting research area, because of inherent literary excellence as well as its correlations ...
This study is concerned with social aspects of sustainable development. It attempts to understand social sustainability by examining the water supply systems in Shillong, the capital city of Meghalaya. The focus is on ...
The present interdisciplinary study seeks to examine the representation of trauma of displacement in some selected Assamese novels from the post-independence era, which is also named as the Modern era in Assamese literary ...