Blar i Chr. Michelsens Institutt på emneord "India"
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Special Issue: Reimagining the Littoral through Development Regimes and Local Contingencies’
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Strained Fraternity. Identity Formations, Migration and Social Transformation among Sri Lankan Tamils in Tamil Nadu, India
(Master thesis, 2005-01-01)This dissertation deals with the situation of the Sri Lankan refugees who have fled to the Indian State of Tamil Nadu - primarily due to the escalating civil war. Their situation in India has been shaped by a series of ... -
The Queens' Daughters: Prostitutes as an Outcast Group in Colonial India
(Research report, Research report, 1992)The report historically traces the social construction of the Indian prostitute, which misrepresented and degraded the imagery of an accomplished courtesan and artistic entertainer to the degraded western image of a ... -
Tribal marginalization in India: Social exclusion and protective law
(CMI Brief vol. 12 no. 4, Report, 2013-01-01)At the time of independence, India used protective law to address fears that its tribal majority regions would be marginalized vis-a-vis the larger, more developed states of the new nation. The ‘Sixth Schedule’ was written ... -
Tribal representation & local land governance in India: A case study from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya
(CMI Working Paper WP 2017:4, Working paper, 2017-04-01)In India, the Schedule Tribes have remained on the fringes of growth , but less so in the majority tribal areas of the North East. This has increased the interest in the Sixth Schedule, the special constitutional provision ... -
Uncorking the bottlenecks: Using political economy analysis to address court delay
(U4 Brief 2015:10, Report, 2015-08-01)Long delays in the resolution of court cases are a common problem in both developing and developed countries and impede anti-corruption efforts. Technical solutions such as hiring more judges and reforming cumbersome ... -
Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation
(CMI Working Paper WP 2017:6, Working paper, 2017-06-01)This paper develops a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions when credit and land markets function imperfectly. The results ...