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1. 11. Displays of Deference, Projections of Power : The English East India Company in Japan, 1615–1622

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Tami Hioki; [2023]
   Keywords : English East India Company; Hirado; Japan; Richard Cocks; Tokugawa shogunate; connected histories; cosmopolitanism; power relations; global interactions;

   Abstract : From 1613 to 1623, the English East India Company (EIC) maintained a trading post at Hirado, Japan. This trading post was one of the first that the EIC established, and because England was far from the empire it would one day become, Company members had to adjust to local customs and respect the laws of Japan in order to conduct business there. READ MORE

3. 12. Changing Tides and Navigating Uncertainty : An ethnographic study of NGO resilience in coastal South India

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Emma Berglund; [2023]
   Keywords : NGO; India; Localisation; Resilience; India; Blue Economy; Community centered practice;

   Abstract : What makes an non-governmental organisation (NGO) agile and resilient towards changes, pressures or uncertainties at community, state or macro-political level? By adopting a single case study based on semi-structured interviews and fieldwork, this thesis will dive into the life-world of a community-based NGO based in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Social Needs Education and Human Awareness (SNEHA) has since founding in the 1980s had a strong rights-based identity and evolved through various phases of community organising, disaster relief work, evidence-based advocacy and upholding of fisher communities traditional and customary rights. READ MORE

4. 13. Jewels of Humayun’s Sciences : Comparative Esotericism at the Cultural Dawn of Mughals

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Thomas Hans Sune Nilsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Humayun; Mughal; esotericism; Arabic Hermeticism; Sufism; syncretism; occultism in Islam; magic;

   Abstract : Nasir-ud-Din Muhammad Humayun (1508-1556), simply known as Humayun, was the second emperor of the Mughal Empire in India. He is often known with a discredited image in history even though recent investigations show a new, different, and regenerated perspective about him. READ MORE

5. 14. The China-India land border conflict : A qualitative case study of the China-India border dispute from a realistic perspective

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Markus Roach; [2023]
   Keywords : India; China; China-India border; Border conflict; Realism;

   Abstract : Why has the China-India border conflict developed into what it is today? What could it become in the future? These questions will be discussed and analyzed from the perspective of offensive and defensive realism, which is based on John Mearsheimer’s theory of realism. This thesis is structured as a case study with a theory testing element with a main focus of analyzing and explaining the border conflict from offensive and defensive realism. READ MORE

6. 15. Explaining the trade relation between India and Sweden in the 21st century

   University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

   Author : Leah Eriksson; Rebecka Ehn; [2023]
   Keywords : Emerging country; Exchange rate; Foreign Direct Investments; Education level; Imports; Trade; Regression analysis; Utvecklingsland; Valutakurs; Utlandsinvestering; Utbildningsnivå; Import; Handel; Regressionsanalys;

   Abstract : The following bachelor thesis in Applied Mathematics at the school of Industrial Engineering and Management, aims to investigate which factors affect the trade relation between India and Sweden during the 21st century. This has been done by performing a multiple linear regression analysis. READ MORE