Essays about: "Punjab"

Showing result 16 - 18 of 18 essays containing the word Punjab.

  1. 16. THE GURU NANAK MISSION MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL TRUST:AN EXPLORATION OF DIASPORA-HOMELAND LINKAGES IN A VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Melissa Kelly; [2006]
    Keywords : Sikhs; Diaspora; Homeland; Indian Voluntary Organizations; Globalization; Transnational Linkages; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study looks at how an Indian voluntary organization, the Punjab-based Guru Nanak Trust, is influenced by its supporters in the Sikh Diaspora. Guiding arguments from studies on Diaspora-Homeland relations were used to examine whether the Trust's linkages with the globally dispersed Punjabi community are getting stronger or weaker and what further opportunities there are for the Trust to internationalize. READ MORE

  3. 17. PAKISTAN : POLITICS IN A POST-COLONIAL STATE

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Ejaz Hussain; [2006]
    Keywords : Pakistan; the Punjab; politics; praetorian oligarchy; military; colonial politics; strategic partition; structural dynamics; civil-military bureaucracy; the landed-feudal; the urbanrural poor; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis attempts to explain why the military is still a powerful political institution/force in Pakistan. Its purpose was to test a hypothesis that the colonial authority structure along with partition (1947) oriented structural dynamics provides an important structural construct to explain politics and the military in post-colonial state of Pakistan. READ MORE

  4. 18. The Paradox of Modernity : A study of girl discrimination in urban Punjab, India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Marie Nilsson; [2004]
    Keywords : India; Punjab; modernity; tradition; gender; sex selection; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study has brought attention to the paradox of modernity, in which certain elements of tradition tend to survive the forces of modernisation and may even, as in this case, be amplified in society. The study demonstrated that modernity, when seen from a gendered perspective generates processes and results that favour men, not women. READ MORE