18 research outputs found
The Immortal King Rao
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in American Historical Review following peer review. The version of record Ramnarayan S Rawat, The Immortal King Rao, The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 3, September 2024, Pages 1029–1031, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae236 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhae236.
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This article will be embargoed until 09/06/2026.Vauhini Vara. The Immortal King Rao. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
“We should be free to pursue our ambitions” (Chinna Rao, owner, coconut grove)
“My ambition is to program” (King Rao)
The Immortal King Rao is an innovative piece of writing that captures the social life of caste and provides a rich ethnography of Dalit ambition, initiative, and achievement through hard work. Several reviewers have written of the novel’s dystopian themes, the existence of a single shareholder’s government managed by an algorithm that has replaced nation-states, and the “exes” or large groups of people who have rejected this system and live in autonomous island zones. Vauhini Vara uses this original framework to offer new insights into Dalit lives by showcasing Dalit ambition and achievement, simultaneously tracing Dalit lives and mobility in India and in the United States while also expanding the genre of caste fiction. As a Dalit woman whose father grew up on a coconut farm in India, Vara has written a formidable novel on breaking free from the shackles of caste through education and migration—in India and abroad
Studies on Physico-Chemical Properties of Fried Oils
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Cultural Factors in Complex Decision Making
No full textComplex decision-making is conceptualised as the process of problem solving in meaningful and important, but complex, dynamic and partially opaque situations. This process is open to a number of cultural influences, among them educational practices, environmental predictability, and power distance. Two empirical studies that explore into the cultural relativity of this type of decision making use interactive computer simulations of complex problems as research instruments. There are a number of behavioural differences between participants from India and Germany which can be explained within a culture-theoretical framework and give reason for the plea to include cultural factors in theories on human decision making
Organization Development Experiences . A Case for Enriching HRD through OD
No full textThis article reviews a few definitions of OD and identifies eight characters that are necessary to call an activity or experience as an OD activity or experience. The article then goes on to examine ten case studies (of research, consulting and OD) of what appears like an OD activity in which the author was involved as one of the facilitators for whole system or subsystem and examines each on of them for their appropriateness to be called as OD interventions. The author then goes on to derive some lessons from these experiences. The article outlines also some advantages of using traditional OD approach in various HRD interventions and offers some suggestions for making specific HRD interventions like competency mapping, 360Degree Feedback based leadership Development and Assessment and Development Centers as OD activities. The paper concludes that using an OD approach enriches HRD and yields a good ROI on HRD interventions.
Recovering the Dalit Public Sphere: Vernacular Liberalism in Late Colonial North India
No full textThis article was originally published in Comparative Studies in Society and History. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000021. © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for the Comparative Study of Society and HistoryDrawing from publications by Swami Achutanand and the Adi-Hindu Mahasabha press between 1916 and 1940, this article examines the role of this north Indian Dalit organization in creating language and categories of liberalism in the Hindi vernacular. The Mahasabha poet-activists published numerous song-booklets in a variety of Hindi song genres to intervene in ongoing discussions on the subjects of representation and equality which they characterized as mulki-haq and unch-niche. Histories of liberties in late colonial India have typically examined its emergence within dominant Hindu and Muslim middle-class groups. This article uncovers the unique contributions of Dalit poet-activists who recognized the value of liberal ideas and institutions in challenging caste and abolishing “Manu’s Kanun” (lawgiver Manu’s Hindu law codes). It highlights the methodological importance of mohalla (neighborhood) sources usually located in Dalit activists’ houses in untouchable quarters. The chapbooks found in mohalla collections have enabled the writing of a new history of the Mahasabha’s activism and of the initiatives taken by poet-activists in founding a new Dalit politics in northern India. I explore the emergence of a Dalit literate public which sustained the activities of the Mahasabha and which responded with enthusiasm to its articulation of the new social identity of Achut (untouched) and a new political identity of Adi-Hindus—original inhabitants of Hindustan (India). Offering a new methodological approach in using mohalla sources and song-booklets composed in praise of liberal institutions, this essay makes a significant contribution to the recovery of a forgotten Dalit public sphere in early twentieth-century India.This article has emerged as part of a larger project on “A New History of Democracy: Dalit Spaces, Printing, and Practices in Twentieth-Century North India,” which has been generously supported by a Senior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, a Smuts Visiting Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, a Charles Ryskamp fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. I am most grateful to the anonymous CSSH reviewers whose careful reading and comments have clarified and strengthened the arguments of this article. Many thanks to Ajay Skaria, Douglas Haynes, Francesca Orsini, K. Satyanarayana, Sharika Thiranagama, Lucinda Ramberg, Mrinalini Sinha, Samita Sen, John Dunn, Lisa Mitchell, and the late David Washbrook. Please note that references to “untouchables” should be read in quotes
Critical Analysis On Trade Secrets And Unfolding The Path Of Intellectual Property Rights Under Legal Framework
No full textThe main aim of the research paper is to unfold the path of Intellectual property rights and communicate as to how these trade secrets play pivotal
role in competitive world. It focuses on various Intellectual property such as trade secrets, Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Design and Geographical
Indications within the context of legal picture as to how these matters dealt with IPR awareness, legal Remedies on infringement of these rights. Where
in various authorities like Copyright board, Patent office and others comes in to picture. Also the paper deals with matter pertaining to assignment and
usage of classes of work by the author/ owner. The empirical study on various Anti- competitive tactics used to destroy market in IP sectors and the paper deals with as to how these reflect on Institutions, Industries, Businesses etc.
Keywords: Intellectual property rights, Trade secrets, Geographical Indication, Trademarks, Patents, Design, Anti-competition, Infringement
The role of competition, ecotones, and temperature in the elevational distribution of Himalayan birds
No full textImage and Information Fusion Experiments with a Software-Defined Multi-Spectral Imaging System for Aviation and Marine Sensor Networks
No full textThe availability of Internet, line-of-sight and satellite identification and surveillance information as well as low-power, low-cost embedded systems-on-a-chip and a wide range of visible to long-wave infrared cameras prompted Embry Riddle Aeronautical University to collaborate with the University of Alaska Arctic Domain Awareness Center (ADAC) in summer 2016 to prototype a camera system we call the SDMSI (Software-Defined Multi-spectral Imager). The concept for the camera system from the start has been to build a sensor node that is drop-in-place for simple roof, marine, pole-mount, or buoy-mounts. After several years of component testing, the integrated SDMSI is now being tested, first on a roof-mount at Embry Riddle Prescott. The roof-mount testing demonstrates simple installation for the high spatial, temporal and spectral resolution SDMSI. The goal is to define and develop software and systems technology to complement satellite remote sensing and human monitoring of key resources such as drones, aircraft and marine vessels in and around airports, roadways, marine ports and other critical infrastructure. The SDMSI was installed at Embry Riddle Prescott in fall 2016 and continuous recording of long-wave infrared and visible images have been assessed manually and compared to salient object detection to automatically record only frames containing objects of interest (e.g. aircraft and drones). It is imagined that ultimately users of the SDMSI can pair with it via wireless to browse salient images. Further, both ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) and S-AIS (Satellite Automatic Identification System) data are envisioned to be used by the SDMSI to form expectations for observing in future tests. This paper presents the preliminary results of several experiments and compares human review with smart image processing in terms of the receiver-operator characteristic. The system design and software are open architecture, such that other researchers are encouraged to construct and participate in sharing results and networking identical or improved versions of the SDMSI for safety, security and drop-in-place scientific image sensor networking
Author response image 1. Comparison of cell surface expression of HA-Kb in STF1 and STF1+TAP2 cells by flow cytometry.
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