Essays about: "ENGLISH INDIA"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 27 essays containing the words ENGLISH INDIA.

  1. 11. Honor and Happiness: An ethnographic study of arranged marriages in a context of tradition and globalization in South India

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Karin Hallberg; [2015-09-04]
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    Abstract : The tradition of arranged marriages is still the most popular form of organizing a marital relationship in India. Traditionally, parents are in charge of choosing the life partner for their child, which is a manifestation of honor in the Indian society. READ MORE

  3. 12. Characters' Views and Perception : Hybridity and the Westerners in Two Indian Novels by Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie

    University essay from Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Pernilla Petersson; [2013]
    Keywords : Hybridity; adaptation; imitation; Indian views; alienating hybridity; half-breed; the West;

    Abstract : In the two novels, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, characters show that their preconceptions and encounter with the Westerners play a big role in how they view Westerners and/or Indians who have adapted to or grown up with the Western lifestyle. Due to Roy’s family being a group of “Anglophiles” and liking the British, they see Sophie Mol being half-Indian as positive. READ MORE

  4. 13. Violence against Christians in India. A discursive study of two Indian English newspapers

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Julia Kuhlin; [2012-06-27]
    Keywords : Christianity in India; Violence against Christians; News Media; Critical Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : Persecution of Christians in India has increased drastically during the last fifteen years, hundreds have been murdered, thousands injured and numerous driven from their homes. In this situation news media has an important role: they have the means to either reproduce an agenda that leads to persecution or resist such an agenda. READ MORE

  5. 14. Health in the headlines : How two Indian newspapers treat antibiotic resistance

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Rebecka Ramstedt; Susanna Ahnlund; [2012]
    Keywords : Antibiotics; Antibiotic resistance; Health; India; Journalism; Newspapers; Media.;

    Abstract : In India, there is no regulation of antibiotics and allegedly the use has doubled since 2006. Indiscriminate use of antibiotics gives rise to development of resistant bacteria. The media has, according to the theories used in this study, a responsibility to educate and empower the people to make personal judgments about health risks. READ MORE

  6. 15. In Pursuit of a Healthy Public Sphere: A News Frame Analysis of the Farmer Suicide Phenomenon in Daily English-language Indian Newspapers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Julie Jacobson; [2012]
    Keywords : citizen engagement; public sphere; deliberative democracy; participatory development; farmer suicide phenomenon; media; English-language dailies; India; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Author: Julie Jacobson Title: In Pursuit of a Healthy Public Sphere: A News Frame Analysis of the Farmer Suicide Phenomenon in Daily English-language Indian Newspapers Supervisor: Annette Hill Examiner: Yiannis Mylonas The motivation behind this thesis is to better understand the role of the media in the construction of the farmer suicide phenomenon in India. Through theories of communication and participation, particularly Dahlgren’s civic cultures framework, I shed light on the ways in which English-language daily newspapers in India seem to be promoting civic engagement and disengagement in its framing of the farmer suicide phenomenon. READ MORE