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Written in the form of an historical fiction, this thesis explores the multiple influences that were active in the lives of temple dancers in Southern India from 1861 to 1947. It addresses the question of whether or not the devadasis were prostitutes, placing this debate in the context of conflicting colonial, Hindu and reform movement pressures, influences directing the decline and disappearance of the temple dancing tradition. In gathering information about this period, I have drawn from three main sources: colonial literature of the time, modern feminist research, and dance scholarship on the nature and history of the technical aspects of temple dancing. My aim has been to reconstruct, as accurately as possible, a close approximation of a devadasi's life, and to compare how it differs from those lived by previous generations of temple dancers.

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The overall purpose of this study was to examine the underlying factors that contribute to developing country partner (DCP) ownership of a development project. The instrumental case study approach was employed to analyse DCP ownership in the Indo-Canada Education Project (ICEP) to that end. ICEP was an education development project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency in the southern Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamilnadu for approximately seven years. The results of the study yielded evidence of 3 process factors (participation, power, and control) and 2 attitudinal factors (freedom and commitment) operating over 3 levels (individual, organisational, and institutional) that contributed to DCP ownership in ICEP. Each of the factors expressed themselves differently over the various levels. These distinct expressions were termed, "manifests". A total of 15 manifests were found.

This thesis is concerned with tracing the rise and spread of that section of the Nizari Ismaili Da'wa which eventually gave rise to what has come to be known as Satpanth Ismailism. The spread in turn involves studying the activities and identifying the various da'is or pirs who came to India and spread the Satpanth doctrine. It is fundamental to the study of movements like Ismailism, that the historical context in which they spread be understood clearly and it is only in this way that one can hope to understand the intellectual assumptions of the movement, in relation to the technique of propagation adopted by the da'wa. Hence the thesis is also concerned, as far as possible, to set out systematically the historical context within which Satpanth Ismailism spread, in order to establish some sort of an identity for it.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 335-349). / Microfiche. / xii, 349 leaves, bound 29 cm

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1999. / Adviser: Sugata Bose. Submitted to the Dept. of History. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 388-395). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Univ., Diss. u.d.T.: Frenz, Margret: Vom Herrscher zum Untertan--Heidelberg, 2000. / Bibliography. Includes index.