Sökning: "caste-system in India"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden caste-system in India.

1. 1. En kvalitativ fallstudie kring bilden av de indiska kristna i det indiska samhället och den påverkan det har på kristnas uppfattning av den egna identiteten.

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Författare :Gabriel Wikman; [2023-11-08]
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   Sammanfattning : This Bachelor Thesis will explore, in a case study, how Christian Indians perceive their daily life situation in relation to the society in India at large, specifically focusing on verbal, written and physical harassment by Hindu nationalists and how this affects their perception of their own identity. Using a qualitative method, based on the hermeneutic-phenomenological tradition, six semi-structured interviews have been held with a focus on, on the one hand, which stereotypes of Christian Indians occur in Indian society, and on the other hand how this affects the identity of the Christian Indians in relation to Indian citizenship, especially under the influence of Hindu nationalists. LÄS MER

3. 2. Belief in Karma and Political Attitudes

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Albin Östervall; [2022]
   Nyckelord :karma; karmic belief; political attitudes; ideology; India; Indian politics; conservative dispositions; caste; caste system; varnas; political psychology; political sociology; conservatism; laissez faire; authoritarianism; status quo conservatism; equality; BJP; motivated social cognition; Weber; death penalty; capital punishment; ableism; ableist attitudes; personal responsibility; samsara; ahimsa; retributivism; theodicy; just world belief; karmic causation; justice reasoning; legitimizing myth; legitimizing ideology; Hinduism; Hindutva; politics; religion; karma index;

   Sammanfattning : Many scholars have discussed the sociopolitical consequences of belief in karma but few have investigated such relationships quantitatively. This study aims to establish empirical patterns concerning the connection between karmic beliefs and attitudes related to (i) political ideology, (ii) ableism, and (iii) views on the death penalty. LÄS MER

4. 3. The Women of India : Women's rights violations through a perspective of human rights and gender approaches

   Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST); Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Hetal Purohit; [2022]
   Nyckelord :India; Gender studies; Human Rights; Women; the caste system; the justice system; sexual violence; marriage; education;

   Sammanfattning : This essay is a qualitative case study and aims to research how women's human rights are being violated in India according to the rights presented in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights between 2018 and 2021 and how this affects the female population based on gender approaches. The research questions this essay will attempt to answer are, how are women's human rights being violated, and how does it affect the women in India? How does gender affect Indian society and the female population? The theories used in the research are gender studies and The Universal Declaration on Human Rights. LÄS MER

5. 4. Dalit Literature and Experience A Journey towards Empathy : Character portrayals in short stories of Jayprakash Kardam and Ajay Navaria

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Författare :David Dymén; [2019]
   Nyckelord :Dalit; Dalit Literature; Dalit Consciousness; change of heart; experience; empathy; sympathy; caste-system in India; casteism; short story; character analysis; Jayprakash Kardam; Ajay Navaria; Hindi literature; Dalit cetnā; hṛday parivartan; anubhūti; samānubhūti; sahānubhūti;

   Sammanfattning : During the last decades, a Hindi Dalit literary movement has emerged in North India. This essay is a study and comparison on character portrayals in short stories by two authors from this movement, Jayprakash Kardam and Ajay Navaria. LÄS MER

7. 5. Shaping social and political identity : A critical discourse anlysis of the Bharatiya Janta Party

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Julia Lindahl; [2018]
   Nyckelord :Religion; Democracy; Identity; Hinduism; Hindutva; Pluralism; Caste System; Secularisation; Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis;

   Sammanfattning : This research paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyse texts produced by the political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. The analysis use Machin and Mayr’s (2012) concepts of Language and Identity and Nominalisation and Presupposition with the aim to understand how the BJP can influence the democratic society in India through discourse. LÄS MER