Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Hawaii. / Bibliography: 197-210.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Hawaii. / Bibliography: 197-210.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2526. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-96).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-221). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNR11633

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University. BLDSC no. DX192541.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves160-169). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url%5Fver=Z39.88-2004&res%5Fdat=xri:pqdiss &rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11765

Riboflavin status was determined in 16 Oriental males and females who were residing off the Oregon State University campus. Before and after these subjects had received 10 mg of riboflavin daily for 7 days, we measured erythrocyte glutathione reductase (EGR) activity with and without FAD added in vitro and erythrocyte total riboflavin levels (RBC B-2). Riboflavin status was assessed by the EGR activity coefficient (EGRAC) (EGR activity with FAD added in vitro / EGR activity without FAD added in vitro). The subjects' dietary intake of riboflavin, protein and calories was estimated from their self chosen diets which were recorded for 3 days before the riboflavin supplementation. Both sex groups had adequate mean levels of riboflavin, protein and calories in their diets. Further, none of the subjects had an intake less than two-thirds of the recommended dietary allowances (FNB, 1980) for riboflavin. Before riboflavin supplementation 5 of the 9 males and 2 of the 7 females had EGRAC greater than or equal to 1.2, suggesting that they were at high risk of marginal riboflavin deficiency, and to have a normal EGRAC they may need an intake of riboflavin greater than the present recommended allowance. In all of the subjects, EGRAC decreased in response to the riboflavin supplements. Additionally, the subjects' RBC B-2, EGR basal activity (without FAD added in vitro) and FAD stimulated EGR activity increased significantly (P < 0.01) after 7 days of riboflavin supplementation. Although the RBC B-2 concentrations were lower than those reported by Bessey, Horwitt and Love (1956) and Bamji (1969), this measurement correlated significantly with EGRAC (r = -0.64, P < 0.01), EGR basal activity (r = 0.74, P < 0.01) and FAD stimulated EGR activity (r = 0.57, P < 0.01). Dietary riboflavin intake whether expressed as total riboflavin intake per day or riboflavin intake per 1000 Kcal was not correlated to any of these biochemical tests made before riboflavin supplementation. RBC B-2 values obtained from these 16 Orientals were similar to those obtained in 5 Caucasian subjects, indicating that these low values were not due to genetic differences. / Graduation date: 1986

This dissertation investigates how stories about the Marathi sant-poet Eknath of Paithan (1533-1599) interacting with untouchables changed over the course of three centuries of textual repetition and dramatic representation. In tracing memories of Eknath over such time and through various Marathi public spheres, the dissertation sheds light on why Eknath has come to be viewed in complicated and conflicted ways in the present. This examination of stories, particularly as they pertain to inter-caste relations and the expression of a bhakti social outlook, offers a chance to view how understandings of devotional religion and caste changed in Maharashtrian society between 1700 and the present. At the heart of these stories is a narrative tension between Eknath's boundary-transgressing actions that are presented in spiritually egalitarian terms, and societal expectations about ritual purity and brahman-ness. I show that although the details of the stories change through various repetitions and renditions, this tension endures and produces an ambiguity in the narrative that (perhaps intentionally) makes Eknath's social allegiance impossible to determine. My sources for this study include hagiographical texts (ca. 1650-1800), biographical books and essays (1880-1925), and six major dramas and films (1903-2005) -- all of which richly portray aspects of Eknath's life, and nearly all of which are in Marathi. In the course of preparing this historiographical analysis, I introduce many Marathi sources to the English scholarly world for the first time and call attention to several historical texts and plays that have been forgotten or overlooked by Marathi scholars as well.

This dissertation examines the formation of urban poverty and slums which have long stigmatized South Asian cities. It focuses on the emergence of markets in housing through the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay primarily, and Karachi and Aden secondarily. It is the first historical study of slums, or poor and stigmatized housing, in colonial Western India. It critically engages with the terms of global urban modernity and the historiography of colonialism in South Asia, challenging the broader nationalist frames in which scholars have understood South Asia's poverty. While this is not a comparative project, the dissertation interrogates many of the implicit and explicit comparative claims that have been made about colonial cities and their legibility in the discourse on global slums. Housing was a visible marker of inequality on the urban landscape and therefore a useful site through which to examine the changing relations between migrants and settlers, laborers and capitalists, and society and the state. The changing political economy of Western India resulted in a laboring and urban poor whose housing issues became productive of regional, colonial, and national difference. By following circular migrants across city and country, this study builds on the subcontinent's Early Modern history of a pervasive rural-urban continuum of human networks. Everyday workers used their mobility and habitation practices to negotiate a changing world, bringing cities like Bombay, Karachi, and Aden into their routes of mobility to earn a livelihood. Increased opportunities combined with the intensification of production, market crises, growing demographic pressures on the land, and the spread of indebtedness to produce and reproduce inequality. This dissertation also compares the subsequent management of the urban poverty problem in cities across Western India, which heightened concerns over public health and sanitation. Newly financed poor housing initiatives sought to correct these at the turn of the century, but their limitations made modern slums. By addressing the eventual obfuscation of the once-transitioned status of the modern slum-dweller, this study delineates the bases for the conceptualization of a distinctive third world poverty and urban form.