358 research outputs found
Towards Sub-regional cooperation: India’s Northeast and Bangladesh
No full textThe South Asian countries have a shared past based on deep-rooted common cultural heritage and historical legacy. The region has demographic and geographical advantages young labour force and a contiguous border. The spatial dimension of regional integration of Northeast India and Bangladesh can be inferred from the historical fact that economic growth of Northeast during the British rule flourished essentially on the strength of its integrated transport network through East Bengal. Inland-water trade between India and Bangladesh is important in linking not only Assam but the region as a whole to Bangladesh. Cost effective trade routes through water ways is more important than land routes for India’s Northeast through the corridors of Bangladesh. Notwithstanding the importance of waterways, the land routes continue to be the safe transit for informal trade between both the countries.Regional cooperation; Northeast India
AutoMeta-ETD500
No full textAutoMeta-ETD500 contains 500 scanned Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). This dataset is used to develop a framework called AutoMeta, which automatically extracts seven key metadata fields (e.g., title, author, advisor, university, department, university, and year), which are ubiquitous to ETDs. For this task, the dataset has been derived into the following seven intermediate datasets: a) PDF.zip: This zip file contains 500 ETD samples from different US and non-US universities. b) XML_JSON.zip: This zip file contains 100 ETD metadata that have been downloaded from MIT and Virginia Tech ETD library repositories. c) HTML.zip: This zip file contains the remaining 400 ETD metadata, which have been downloaded from ProQuest. d) Tiff.zip: This zip file contains the Tiff images of cover pages of 500 scanned ETDs. e) noisy.zip: This zip file contains all the noisy data for 500 ETD samples. This is generated by tesseract OCR. f) clean.zip: This zip file contains all the clean data of 500 ETD samples, and this dataset has been manually rectified from noisy data. g) annotated.zip: This zip file contains all annotated data in XML. Annotation is done using the GATE annotation tool
“Counter Me!” Female Bodies as Sites of Resistance in the Three Stories of Postcolonial Author Mahasweta Devi
No full textThe postcolonial Indian author and activist Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016) depicts the oppression of marginalized women who are indigenous and are of lower castes in the following three stories: Draupadi (1978), Rudali (1993), and Douloti the Bountiful (1993). In this thesis, I argue that each of the female protagonists resist the torture inflicted on them by the patriarchal society by using their bodies as sites of resistance. They retrieve their agencies by defying the exploitation of gender, class, and caste. Draupadi is a story of an indigenous woman named Draupadi (Dopdi), who subverts the humiliation of gang rape by refusing to accept victimhood and by throwing the shame back upon the perpetrators. Rudali is a story of a funeral wailer named Sanichari who, despite terrible obstacles, gains agency by turning her grief into a performative profession. Douloti the Bountiful is a story of a bonded laborer who dies as a sex slave at the age of twenty-seven, forcing the nation to generate a conversation on the rights of bonded laborers. Moreover, her marginalized life and death debunk the national myth of independence and raise the question about why the nation builders entirely excluded her from the body politic. The three stories explain how Devi centers the subaltern female body, which is always found as the Other, the neglected, the one which always lies at the margin. Devi has captured the complexity of the gendered resistance by portraying the different ways these women react to the violence and torture inflicted on them. Devi’s resistance, through her literary works, is an endeavor to counter the influence of religious and political hegemony which has spread its malicious tentacles in the form of class discrimination, caste ostracism, and violence. The guiding principle of my theory rests upon the questions as to how the three stories position the female bodies at the margin of a discourse of a decolonized nation, how Devi’s stories narrate the protagonists’ feminist ideology and to what effect, and how Devi’s protagonists bring to the fore the mockery of nation-building led by the mainstream patriarchs who silenced and suppressed the gendered subalterns from the postcolonial national conversation
Volatile and Non-volatile Components of Beef Marrow Bone Stocks
No full textBeef bone marrow has been part of the human diet since prehistoric times. Marrow bone stock is important culinary base used by gourmet chefs. It is well known for its distinct savory character in foods. While there has been a great deal published on flavor active components in cooked meats, the flavor composition of bone marrow is still relatively unstudied. For this study, commercial chopped fresh beef marrow bones were simmered in water for seven hours at 90ºC. Three batches of cooked marrow bone mixtures were prepared. First batch was not enzyme treated. The second and third batch was enzyme treated with papain and umamizyme and heated for one hour at 65ºC and 50ºC respectively. All three batches (untreated and enzyme treated) were defatted by microfiltration. Samples from all three batches were heated under pressure at 120ºC or 160ºC for one hour. In another series of experiments, the defatted stock samples of three batches (one untreated and two iii treated with papain or umamizyme) were heated for one hour with ribose, xylose or methyglyoxal. Head space volatiles of all above samples were analyzed using Ga
Taming a Monstrous Genre: Vexed Author-Figures and their Lethal Texts: 1719 to 1824
No full textScholarly studies have established that the eighteenth and nineteenth-century English novel mixed conventions of various prose genres and was accused of morally corrupting its readers. To escape cultural disparagement, novelists tried to impose a didactic framework on their novels. However, such didacticism was undermined because the novel\u27s generic hybridism opened it up to multiple interpretive lenses. I argue that working under such literary and cultural constraints, novelists were anxious about losing control over the interpretation and reception of their works. Analyzing seven novels, published between 1719 and 1824, Taming the Monstrous Genre asserts that these seven novelists channel their paranoia about losing interpretive control through vexed author-figures. As the century progressed, these author-figures became darker, employing more conniving measures to control their narratives and suffering graver consequences for their failure to do so. Eluding their interpretive control, their narratives became dangerous entities, terrorizing their creators and threatening their existences. I argue that these vexed author-figures eventually transformed into Gothic protagonists and the threat they experienced from their out-of-control narratives manifested itself in Gothic terror. Moreover, their menacing narratives found an exaggerated expression in the Gothic monster. Scholars have analyzed these Gothic elements through cultural, feminist, psychological and political lenses, but they have not connected them to the anxieties plaguing the novelists. By reviewing theories of monstrosity, I establish that the novel was a literary monster from its inception. Like monsters, it was a hybrid, which eluded a stable definition. And like a monster, the novel threatened its creator. I, therefore, assert that the novel\u27s inherent monstrosity found a tangible expression in the Gothic monster. By connecting the literary and cultural anxiety of novelists to the emergence of Gothic elements in the novel, Taming the Monstrous Genre offers a new lens for studying the novel and the Gothic. This connection between the Gothic and the threats posed by the monstrous novel genre explains the survival and eventual explosion of the Gothic at the end of the nineteenth century. Thus this dissertation also opens up a new avenue for scholars exploring Gothic elements in Victorian novels
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