• (An) Evaluation of Electronic Wage Transfer under MGNREGA in the Barak Valley Region of Assam 

  Pandit, Harish Chandra (2022)

  India's most ambitious rural employment programme – the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) – is close to two decades now. In the most recent times, conflicting reports have emerged on two ...
• Colonial Knowledge and the Quest for Unnati among the Boros of North-East India, 1880s-1940s 

  Daimari, James (2022)

  The thesis examines the formation of Boro identity from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. This is being done in the light of knowledge that came to be produced on Boros by British administrators and ...
• Lakshminath Bezbaroa and His Times: Language, Literature and Modernity in Colonial Assam 

  Tamuly, Gitashree (2021)

  The thesis is an attempt to write a biography of Lakshminath Bezbaroa (1864-1938), an acknowledged writer of modern Assamese literature, situating him against the broader social history of the time. While exploring language, ...
• Land and Credit Market in a Bodo Village of Assam 

  Daimari, Mizinksa (2021)

  The Bodos, as peasants, have featured significantly in the colonial agrarian history of Assam. However, there is a massive research gap on the transformations surrounding the Bodo peasantry in more contemporary times. The ...
• Fideism- A Critical Evolution 

  Deka, Chandana (2021)

  This thesis attempts to critically evaluate issues related to fideism. Fideism as an idea upholds that in the issues of religion, reason has no or minimal place, and only faith matters. Some fideists hold that religious ...
• Movement of Agricultural Commodity Prices in Post-reform India 

  Baruah, Prerona (2021)

  At a time when several Asian countries are reeling under acute agrarian distress, this dissertation focuses on India to conduct disaggregated uni-variate time-series analysis on the behaviour of prices for four major ...
• Border Creation, Citizenship and Identity: A Case Study of the Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh 

  Boro, Konkumoni (2021)

  The study attempts to investigate and analyze how the creation of post colonial borders impact the political status and identity construction of people crossing the borders and in the process how do these communities ...
• (A) Philosophical Exploration of the Goddess as Role Model for Women with Special Reference to The Great Goddess and Her Various Representations in the Text and Some of its Contexts 

  Kalita, Sunu (2021)

  The present research work examines some of the various representations of women seen through the lens of Vedic literature, mythology, and even contemporary writings in this significant research area. This background ...
• Encountering State: A Study of State–Society Interface in the Tea Garden Labour Community of the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam 

  Sarma, Sumit Kumar (2022)

  This thesis examines the link between society and the state by exploring the everyday lives of communities located at the margins of the Indian state. This study argues that a meaningful way to understanding processes like ...
• Citizenship, Nationality and Assam: A Political History Since 1950 

  Saikia, Prathana (2021)

  The thesis probes the question of the history of the making of the Indian citizenship in the context of Assam, the northeastern state of India. In Assam, the idea of citizenship has always been set against the trope of the ...
• (A) Risk and Protective Factors Framework for Indian Army Soldier’s Subjective and Psychological Well-being 

  Kashyap, Shivali (2021)

  Army is a difficult profession which demands a great deal of physical, moral and mental strength of a person. They experience frequent and diverse occupational stressors such as separation from family members, adverse ...
• Tribe, Class, Status and Power: Dynamics of Social Stratification and Change among the Kukis in Manipur 

  Touthang, Savio Hollienthang (2020)

  Tribal societies are often described as having collective conscience and representations, group solidarity, communal ownership of property and egalitarianism, thereby maintaining social equality rather than social inequality ...
• Hermeneutics as a Methodology in the Inter-Cultural Dimension of Philosophy of Consciousness with Reference to Buddhism and Vedanta 

  Devi, Rekhamoni (2020)

  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 ...
• Caste in City: A Study of a Residential Settlement in Delhi 

  Devi, Rama (2020)

  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 ...
• Vowel Acoustics of Assamese Spoken in Five Geographical Locations 

  Dihingia, Leena (2021)

  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 ...
• Brewing Trouble or Transforming Nature? Making of Tea Plantation Environments in Assam, 1830s-1930s 

  Borkotoky, Namrata (2021)

  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 ...
• Social Justice in Education: A Critical Study 

  Konwar, Bharat (2021)

  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, ...
• Analysis of Food Demand in Assam: Evidence and Application from Primary and Secondary Data 

  Chowdhury, Bandana (2021)

  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, ...
• Social and emotional factors influencing and maintaining social anxiety and comorbid disordered eating behavior and symptoms 

  Mukherjee, Koninika (2021)

  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: Ethical Deliberation on War 

  Haokip, Sanlut Nengneithem (2022)

  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 ...

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