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Maharajah Ranjit Singh's Baradari
No full textexterior, view towards gate with Hazuri Bagh baradari in foreground, 198
Ranjit Singh's Tomb Lahore
No full textMaharaja Ranjit Singh's tomb is adjacent to the Badshahi Mosque Lahore
Exploratory factor analysis of African self-consciousness scale scores:
No full textThe current study is an exploratory factor analysis of the African Self-Consciousness Scale (ASCS), a 42-item self-report measure of Afrocentricity, or the degree to which African American individuals espouse African-centered cultural, social, and political identities. Previous research has produced inconsistent results regarding the latent dimensionality and psychometric properties of the ASCS. With a sample of 348 African Americans, the current study conducts a methodologically rigorous exploratory factor analysis of ASCS scores. The study also examines convergent validity of the measure as compared to a measure of African Americans’ endorsements of negative stereotypes of Blacks. Factor analysis produced strong support for a two-factor model of the ASCS. Further support for the validity of the ASCS was found when the factor assessing non-Afrocentric or anti-Afrocentric beliefs correlated significantly with the measure of stereotypes. This evidence strongly suggests that the ASCS is not a unidimensional measure. Implications of these findings for the use of the ASCS and recommendations for further investigation are discussed.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-36)by Ranjit Bhagwa
The relationship of skin tone to physical and mental health outcomes in South Asian Americans
No full textSince 1990, the South Asian population in America has exhibited massive growth, as large numbers of immigrants from India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries have arrived in the United States. Yet limited empirical psychological research has been conducted assessing race-related stressors in this population. Skin tone (skin color) has been linked frequently with physical and mental health outcomes in other American ethnic minority populations, such that dark skin tone typically correlates with poor outcomes. The present study demonstrated, in a relatively large sample of South Asian Americans, that darkness of skin tone negatively predicted self-esteem and self-rated physical health. Contrary to expectations, dark skin tone positively predicted general mental health. The study also investigates the mediation role of perceived discrimination and body image disturbance in these relationships, as well as the moderating roles of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic identification. The relationship of dark skin tone to low self-esteem, but not low self-rated physical health or high general mental health, was mediated via increased body image disturbance. Ethnic identification moderated the positive association between dark skin tone and general mental health, such that this association was strong at low levels of ethnic identification and reversed for individuals of high ethnic identification. Neither gender nor ethnic identification moderated the negative associations between dark skin tone and low self-rated physical health or low self-esteem. Implications and recommendations are discussed.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Ranjit Bhagwa
Maharaja Ranjit Singh lord of the five rivers
No full textStudy on the political, military, and economic achievements of Ranjit Singh, Maharaja of Punjab, 1780-1839
Commercial awareness - what is it and why is it important?
No full textVideo presentation on commercial awareness - what is it and why is it important? by Ranjit Johal
Ranjit Movietone: India's Longest Running Studio and Industrial Integration in Cinema
Get PDFThis essay revisits the history of Ranjit Movietone, India’s longest running studio to date. Based on new research, it argues that Ranjit Movietone’s forty years record was made possible by a form of transversal integration that is not accounted for in current film historiography. The result of a symbiotic relation between film production and cotton trading in colonial India, Ranjit Movietone’s mode of operation hinged on time delay, over-production and slow turnover. This argument is supported by the analysis of visual material contemporary to, and often produced by Ranjit Movietone. Most of Ranjit Movietone’s films destroyed in a fire; the essays seeks to demonstrate that valuable historiographic insights can be gained from paying close attention to para-filmic sources.
This material also shows that the star value of studio co-founder Gohar Kayoum Mamajiwala was an important, though not the sole, component of Ranjit’s mode of operation. Better known in her days as the ‘Queen of Emotions’, Miss Gohar has been written into film history simply as an actor and wife of studio owner and director Chandulal Shah. A more nuanced understanding of industrial integration in cinema, as it functions differently in specific historical formations, would enable us to make visible the valuable contribution to cinema of Gohar and other women like her
Replication Data for: "The Missing Dimension of the Political Resource Curse Debate" (Comparative Political Studies)
No full textAbstract:
Given the methodological sophistication of the debate over the “political resource curse”—the purported negative relationship between natural resource wealth (in particular oil wealth) and democracy—it is surprising that scholars have not paid more attention to the basic statistical issue of how to deal with missing data. This article highlights the problems caused by the most common strategy for analyzing missing data in the political resource curse literature—listwise deletion—and investigates how addressing such problems through the best-practice technique of multiple imputation affects empirical results. I find that multiple imputation causes the results of a number of influential recent studies to converge on a key common finding: A political resource curse does exist, but only since the widespread nationalization of petroleum industries in the 1970s. This striking finding suggests that much of the controversy over the political resource curse has been caused by a neglect of missing-data issues
Ranjit Kumar. Research methodology: a step-by-step guide for beginners
No full textRanjit Kumar. Research methodology: a step-by-step guide for beginners</jats:p
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