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title: The law of Stridhana, the Hindu woman's separate estate, with special reference to acquisition, powers of disposition and intestate succession.
Creators: name: Rege, Prabhakar Waman
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1960

description: The main topic of the thesis has been divided in two parts, namely, sastnic law and judge-made law. For the former several Sanskrit works whether published or otherwise and whether in the Devanagari or the Bengali script have been considered. Pit-falls of erroneous translations have been avoided by giving references to the original texts at all places. With the help of the added sastric information new light has been thrown on questions such as whether inherited property is stridhana according to the various Mitasara sub-schools; whether such property should be considered as saudayika; what are the rights of a childless daughter, adopted son, illegitimate children etc. in succession to stridhana; whether degradation amounts to civil death etc. For the latter part more than 500 decisions have been considered. They have been arranged and analysed with a view to demonstrate the growth not only of the judge-made law but also of the rift between the sastric law and the judge-made law. Incongruity, if any, amongst several decisions on the same point has also been pointed out. A chapter on customary law contains special provisions concerning proprietory rights of prostitutes, and a gist of six systems of customary law from South-East Asia including India, Burma and Ceylon. A chapter on the recently codified law in India contains also a scrutiny of the similar previous attempts in the former Native States of Mysore and Baroda. The chapter also contains a few comments concerning the defects and the deficiencies in the enacted law. The conclusion contains a few suggestions as to how the provisions of the enacted law should be amended so as to bring them in conformity with the advanced public opinion in other countries as well as in India.
title: The development of Zyooruri up to 1686.
Creators: name: Dunn, Charles James
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1960

description: Zyooruri is the puppet drama of Japan and takes its name from Zyooruri, the heroine of the tale which was the original piece recited by the chanters who, in about 1610, made the vocal contribution to the first full puppet theatre, and who derived ultimately from the biwa players who recited 'Heike monogatari'. There had been puppets in the tenth and eleventh centuries, but they are unlikely to have been the ancestors of those of the seventeenth century, which probably came from China. The first repertory was derived from previously-existing works except for the buddhistic 'Amida no Munewari', the various subsequent versions of which illustrate the changing tastes of the audiences. The puppets during the 'old-zyooruri' period were generally of a type which were held high by the manipulator who worked them from below. This method involved a specialised stage architecture. Mechanical and string puppets were also used, particularly for special effects. Theatre architecture, apart from the stage, was not different from that of the kabuki. The surviving puppet drama of the island of Sado is still very close to old zyooruri. Kyooto was the home of the earliest performances, but the centre moved to Edo in the 1620's. The chanter Satuma Zyooun started there a tendency towards plays of a violent nature and these became popular in the 1650's, under the leadership of Sakurai Tanba no syoozyoo, who performed plays showing the adventures of Kinpira, a warrior of superhuman valour and skill. This vogue spread to the whole of Japan, but was gradually replaced in the Kyooto/Oosaka region by plays of more literary and developed style. Uzi Kaga no zyoo reformed puppet drama with the noo as model and foreshadowed the end of 'old zyooruri' and the arrival of 'new zyooruri' in 1686.
title: The modal system of Arabian and Persian music, 1250-1300: An interpretation of contemporary texts.
Creators: name: Wright, Owen
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: The period 1250-1300 witnessed the emergence of a corpus of musical theory which was to provide a framework for most of the important treatises composed during the following centuries. One aspect of the theory is examined here: the analysis of scale (intervals and combinations of intervals); and on the basis of this examination an attempt is made to present a coherent picture of one aspect of musical practice: the modal system. The introduction discusses the relationship between Arabian and Persian music, and describes briefly the attitudes towards music prevalent in Islamic society and their effect upon the literature. Part 1 presents a critique of the preconceptions involved in the analysis of intervals, and an annotated transcription of the species and fixed scales recorded during the period. Part 2 begins by examining the various groups to which the modes were assigned in order to ascertain whether they can be justified on purely structural grounds. Consideration of the criteria employed in determining grades of consonance is followed by a discussion of the modal system in terms of basic units and the ways they combine. Comparison between two accounts of the system suggests a pattern of historical development; and also that the earlier account misrepresents certain features. Part 3 continues the examination of the later eiccount. Further material from this is given, revealing a second set of unit combinations which is compared and contrasted with the first. Finally, the examples of notation are transcribed and briefly discussed. The relevant texts are presented in part 4.
title: Hausa Wa'azii verse from ca. 1800 to ca. 1970 : A critical study of form, content, language and style.
Creators: name: Dangambo, Abdulkadir
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1980

description: The thesis sets out to examine the Hausa Islamic verse category known as Wa'azii, "Admonition", as it devolopod from ca. 1800 to ca. 1970. It proceeds as follows: Fourteen poems are selected from the main category of Wa'azii. They are then divided into the following sub-categories, which are arranged under "Parts". Part I: "General Wa'azii", that is, poems concerned with religious warning and admonition in general, Two chapters are devoted to the sub-category, each of which deals with two poems. Part II: "The World's character and remembering death". Two chapters are devoted to this, each of which deals with two poems. PART III; "The Signs of the Coming of the Hour and the Mahdi", One chapter is devoted to this, which deals with two poems. Part IV: "The Resurrection, the Judgement and the description of Divine Punishment and Reward". Two chapters are devoted to this, each of which deals with two poems. Each poem is presented with an Introduction, giving its provenance and including a preliminary discussion of its form, content, language and style. This is followed by the Hausa text of the poem, with critical apparatus in the form of notes which support and amplify the discussion on form, language and style in the Introduction. An English translation of the Hausa text then follows, annotated with reference to content, literary and folkloric background etc. This annotation supports the discussion on content in the Introduction. Part V of the thesis is the "Conclusions". This draws together the main points and issues raised in the preceding chapters. It reflects on the significance of the category of Wa'azii as a whole and seeks to draw general conclusions that can be applied to this category of Hausa Wa'azii Verse.
Strongyloides stercoralis
Creators: name: Boonroumkaew, Patcharaporn
name: Sadaow, Lakkhana
name: Janwan, Penchom
name: Rodpai, Rutchanee
name: Sanpool, Oranuch
name: Buadee, Punyisa
name: Suprom, Chanida
name: Thanchomnang, Tongjit
name: Intapan, Pewpan M.
name: Maleewong, Wanchai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Nematoda
Chromadorea
Rhabditida
Strongyloididae
Strongyloides
Strongyloides stercoralis

description: Strongyloides stercoralis recombinant antigens
 The Strongyloides stercoralis L3NieAg.01 (NIE) sequence (1–621 bp) deposited in the GenBank database (AF136445) was codon-optimized to be suitable for an Escherichia coli expression system and constructed into the pET22.b (+) vector (GenScript, Piscataway, NJ, USA). The recombinant NIE construct was transformed into a cloning host (E. coli JM 109) (Novagen, Darmstadt, Germany) and an expression host (E. coli Rosetta-gami 2 (DE3)) (Novagen). The C-terminalfused His-tagged NIE was inoculated into LB broth and induced with 1 mM IPTG and incubated at 37 ° C overnight. Bacterial cells harvested from the culture were centrifuged and then resuspended in a lysis buffer with lysozyme. The suspension was then sonicated on ice. The recombinant NIE protein was initially in insoluble form and was dissolved in 8 M urea, pH = 8 (Elago Enterprises Pty Ltd., Cherrybrook, NSW, Australia).
 The solubilized NIE protein fused with 6 × His-tags at the C-terminal was purified by affinity chromatography using HisTrap™ HP 1 mL columns in the ÄKTA start protein purification system as recommended by the manufacturer (Global Life Sciences Solutions USA LLC, Marlborough, MA, USA). The purified NIE protein was examined on a 12% SDS– PAGE, and the protein concentration was measured using the Bradford Assay (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA, USA) with bovine serum albumin as a standard.
 The Strongyloides recombinant IgG-immunoreactive (SsIR) antigen was prepared as reported previously [4]. The purified SsIR protein was examined on a 10% SDS– PAGE. Each recombinant antigen was stored at 4 ° C before use.
description: Published as part of Boonroumkaew, Patcharaporn, Sadaow, Lakkhana, Janwan, Penchom, Rodpai, Rutchanee, Sanpool, Oranuch, Buadee, Punyisa, Suprom, Chanida, Thanchomnang, Tongjit, Intapan, Pewpan M. & Maleewong, Wanchai, 2023, Improved diagnostic sensitivity of human strongyloidiasis using point-of-care mixed recombinant antigen-based immunochromatography, pp. 1-12 in Parasite (Paris, France) (Paris, France) 30 (60) on page 3, DOI: 10.1051/parasite/2023063, http://zenodo.org/record/12524553
title: Origins, chronology and metallurgy of the Benin Wall bas-reliefs.
Creators: name: Tunis, Irwin Leonard
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: The existing hypotheses of the origins and chronology of Benin art, particularly the bas-relief wall plaques are severely limited. It has been assumed, based on oral tradition, that cire-perdue casting was transferred from Ife to Benin during the rule of Oba Oguola (ca. 1280 or 1380). Analyses of the physical data from Ife and Benin show that such a transfer did not take place. It was suggested in 1965 that copper alloy casting probably came to Benin from a more northerly source astride the Niger-Benue confluence. A re-examination of the historical information, oral traditions, physical data, and the morphology of the 'Tsoede' bronzes with those previously labelled Benin and now called 'Lower Niger Industries' supports this speculation. The evidence also indicates that there were two Benin metal working traditions: the earlier or bronze period from Obas Oguola to Ewuare, and the later or brass period, which began in the reign of Esigie. I have shown that the wall reliefs are to be assigned to this second period.;Since there exists an internal consistency within Benin art I have used comparative techniques between the reliefs and full sculpture. Such a comparison indicates that the plaques must be divided into at least two periods. Period I: Esigie to Ozuere. Period II: Akenzua I to Osemwede (?). It is also shown that the plaques served more than one function.;Comparison of the chemical composition with known brasses show Benin materials to be very consistent with European alloys of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Using alloy content and visual evidence an argument is presented that the type 5, Oba memorial heads (those-with winged caps and flanged bases), are incorrectly dated by about one century.
title: Political history of the Kingdom of Kotte (c. A.D. 1400-1521).
Creators: name: Somaratna, Gintota Parana Vidanage
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: This thesis is offered as a contribution to the study of the medieval history of Ceylon. In this study an attempt is made to examine the historical developments mainly political in the principal kingdom of Ceylon in the fifteenth century and in the early part of the sixteenth century. The first chapter surveys the original sources which could be utilized for the study of this period. Major part of this chapter is devoted to make an assessment of the historical value of the Rajavaliya. The second chapter deals mainly with the origin of the kingdom of Kotte. The activities of the Alakesvaras and the building of the fortress of Kotte are studied in it. In the same chapter the Chinese invasion and its repurcussions on the development of the kindom are studied. The third and fourth chapters are on the reign of Parakramabahu VI. While an attempt has been made to trace the ancestry of this king the political events that took place in his reign are discussed in detail. The fifth chapter discusses the historical developments that took place in the kingdom of Kotte after the death of Parakraonabahu VI up to the partition of the kingdom in 1521 as a result of the Vijayaba-kollaya. The sixth chapter deals mainly with the foundation of the kingdom of Udarata. The last chapter deals with the Portuguese activities in the Island during the earliest part of their stay in the Island.
title: The anthropological approach to the study of religion.
Creators: name: Burghart, Richard
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: Since the last war there has been a renewed interest among anthropologists in the study of religion. To date, however, there has not been any comparative analysis and evaluation of these recent developments in religious anthropology, The purpose of this thesis is an investigation into contemporary anthropological approaches to the study of religion, Six significant contemporary anthropologists of religion, representing social, cultural, and structural anthropology, have been singled out for analysis. Their approaches are contrasted with each other as well as examined in relation to the traditional anthropological approaches to religion. The final section of the thesis contains a general criticism of these various approaches and offers suggestions for the development of religious anthropology.
Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults With Alcohol Use Disorder
Creators: name: Paladino, Michael B.
name: Prince, Mark A.
name: Kostantinis, Georgios
name: Jordan, Robyn
name: Hendershot, Christian S.
name: Gilmore, Thomas A.
name: Fletcher, Paul J.
name: Bremmer, Michael P.
name: Claus, Eric D.
name: Tow, Amanda C.
name: Klein, Klara R.
name: McKee, Sherry A.
name: Dermody, Sarah S.
name: Sullivan, Neil R.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association (AMA)
Year: 2025

description:
Importance: Preclinical, observational, and pharmacoepidemiology evidence indicates that glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) may reduce alcohol intake. Randomized trials are needed to determine the clinical significance of these findings. Objective: To evaluate the effects of once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide on alcohol consumption and craving in adults with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Design, Setting, and Participants: This was a phase 2, double-blind, randomized, parallel-arm trial involving 9 weeks of outpatient treatment. Enrollment occurred at an academic medical center in the US from September 2022 to February 2024. Of 504 potential participants assessed, 48 non-treatment-seeking participants with AUD were randomized. Intervention: Participants received semaglutide (0.25 mg/week for 4 weeks, 0.5 mg/week for 4 weeks, and 1.0 mg for 1 week) or placebo at weekly clinic visits. Main Outcomes and Measures: The primary outcome was laboratory alcohol self-administration, measured at pretreatment and posttreatment (0.5 mg/week). Secondary and exploratory outcomes, including prospective changes in alcohol consumption and craving, were assessed at outpatient visits. Results: Forty-eight participants (34 [71%] female; mean [SD] age, 39.9 [10.6] years) were randomized. Low-dose semaglutide reduced the amount of alcohol consumed during a posttreatment laboratory self-administration task, with evidence of medium to large effect sizes for grams of alcohol consumed (β, -0.48; 95% CI, -0.85 to -0.11; P = .01) and peak breath alcohol concentration (β, -0.46; 95% CI, -0.87 to -0.06; P = .03). Semaglutide treatment did not affect average drinks per calendar day or number of drinking days, but significantly reduced drinks per drinking day (β, -0.41; 95% CI, -0.73 to -0.09; P = .04) and weekly alcohol craving (β, -0.39; 95% CI, -0.73 to -0.06; P = .01), also predicting greater reductions in heavy drinking over time relative to placebo (β, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.71 to 0.99; P = .04). A significant treatment-by-time interaction indicated that semaglutide treatment predicted greater relative reductions in cigarettes per day in a subsample of individuals with current cigarette use (β, -0.10; 95% CI, -0.16 to -0.03; P = .005). Conclusions and Relevance: These findings provide initial prospective evidence that low-dose semaglutide can reduce craving and some drinking outcomes, justifying larger clinical trials to evaluate GLP-1RAs for alcohol use disorder. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05520775.
title: Capital formation in Iran, 1900-1965.
Creators: name: Bharier, Julian
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: This thesis is intended as a contribution to the study of capital formation in the context of the Iranian economy. It begins by examining with reference to Iran the problems that arise in trying to use the internationally recommended concepts, definitions and methods of estimating capital formation. (Part 1, Chapters 2 and 3). It goes on to analyse previous estimates of capital formation and to suggest ways of improving them. (Part 1, Chapter 4). Then follows my own estimate of Gross Domestic Fixed Capital Formation, which for the first time gives a consistent series from 1900, and an attempt to assess the reliability of this estimate, (Part 2, Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10). Finally, the thesis explores the possibilities of using this estimate to provide figures of capital formation for individual sectors of the economy. (Part 3, Chapter 11). In the process of producing a new estimate of capital formation it proved necessary to construct other new statistical series, especially on population, which I hope will also prove useful.
title: An historical study of Isma'il b. 'Abd al-Qadir, "Kitab Sa'adat al-Mustahdi bi-Sirat al-Imam al-Mahdi".
Creators: name: Shaked, Haim
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1969

description: Isma'il b. 'Abd al-Qadir (d. I897), a member of a'holy family' of Kordofan, had studied at al-Azhar and later served as mufti in El Obeid, In late 1882 he joined the Mahdi. His subsequent career cannot be fully reconstructed. On 2 Rabi I 1306/6 November 1888, he completed his Sira of the Mahdi, On 6 Shawwal 1306/5 June 1889, he completed another work, dealing with the wars between the Khalifa and the Abyssinians. In 1893, at the Khalifa's order, Isma'il's writings were destroyed and he was banished to al-Rajjaf, where he died in the beginning of 1897. The unique extant manuscript copy of Isma'il's Sira, which forms the basis of the thesis, is a biography of the Mahdi by one of his adherents, which also contains elements of a chronicle. Its history, sources and contents are discussed in the introduction to the thesis. The main historical value of the Sira lies in its presentation of the Turco-Egyptian, the Mahdi and the Khalifa, In addition, it contains many details on ideological, military and other affairs of the Mahdia, and provides an insight into the outlook and frame of mind of an educated Mahdist. The second, and longer part of the thesis is a very full summary, at times approaching a translation, of the text of the Sira. All historically relevant details, including all names of persons, tribes and places, have been retained and, in many cases, annotated. Also, the pagination of the original Arabic manuscript has been indicated. The appendixes include source materials for Isma'il's life (one of them still in manuscript) and a list of proclamations and letters transcribed in the Sira.
title: The decline of the Saljuqid Empire.
Creators: name: Sanaullah, M. F.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1934

description: After a critical examination of the available sources and a chronological survey of the period, the thesis sets out to analyse the institutions of the Saljuqid State, so far as they can be identified. Among them are the royal family and Court including relations of princes and activities of wives, constitution of the armed forces, relations with amirs and Turkmen and Arab tribes, civil administration, relations with the caliphate, religious opposition, and economic factors. The bearing of each upon the fortunes of the dynasty and the conditions in the Middle East is examined as fully as possible. Finally, the political history of the period is surveyed in the light of the factors analysed above. The thesis thus aims at presenting for the first time a critical history of a period hitherto known only in general outline, and at isolating the features which marked the political life of the Eastern Islamic world during this period.
title: Possibilities of the finite-difference time-domain method for hybrid optical simulations
Creators: name: Metzner, Dominik
Publisher: name: TU Ilmenau
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Ray tracing
subject: Wave propagation
subject: Hybrid optical simulation
subject: 621.3

description: The purpose of this article will be to find a basis for a connection of Ray Tracing simulations and wave propagation methods using Finite-Difference Time-Domain simulations. Since Ray Tracing uses geometric optic only refractive optics is considered. However, in modern lighting systems the optical elements become increasingly smaller resulting in the occurrence of diffractive phenomena. Those phenomena cannot be considered using Ray Tracing simulations. Further possibilities using a Finite-Difference Time-Domain methods to characterize the scattering behavior after the wave passes the optical element and analyse material parameters will be listed.
description: Lux junior 2024: 17. Internationales Forum für den lichttechnischen Nachwuchs, 6. – 8. September 2024, Ilmenau : Tagungsband, p. 167
title: Hali the poet, the critic and the biographer, and his influence on Urdu literature.
Creators: name: Husain, Mian Tasadduque
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1934

description: I originally intended to do some research on the tendencies in Modern Urdu Literature, but took up Hali on the suggestion of my tutor Dr.T.grahame Bailey, since he is the one figure in the early Islamic Renaissance who represents all its varied aspects. The study of Urdu literature reveals two different and conflicting cultural patterns, which, on account of the absence of better terms, can be called the "Classical" and the "Modern"; The poetry and the prose of Hali mark the advent of the "modern"; they are of the nature of a reaction against classical traditionalism. To understand and appreciate the work of Hali, therefore, it is necessary not only to study the nature of the environment which produced him, but also to examine the root-factors of the classical culture and its ideals against which he led the revolt. The thesis,therefore, proceeds upon these lines, that is to say, an examination of the classic ideals, a rather detailed descriptive account of the Indian Renaissance, followed by a critical study of the mind and art of Hali and his influence on Urdu literature.
Budd-Chiari Syndrome in a Patient with Chronic Alcoholic Cirrhosis
Creators: name: Norris, Maxwell
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: CT
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Cirrhosis
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics
subject: Obstruction / Occlusion

description: Clinical History Image Findings Discussion Find Diagnosis Differential Diagnosis
description: female, 46 years
description: Clinical History: 46 year old female with a past medical history of alcoholic cirrhosis presented with 3 months of jaundice, right upper quadrant pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dark urine, and abdominal distension.  Blood work showed elevated liver enzymes, PT and INR. ... Final Diagnosis: Budd-Chiari Syndrome
Fabrication du tambourin provençal : ajustage et percement des cercles
Creators: name: Musée National Des Arts Et Traditions Populaires (Paris)
name: Centre D'ethnologie Française
Publisher: name: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Institut  interdisciplinaire d'anthropologie du contemporain (Paris); Laboratoire d'anthropologie et d'histoire de l'institution de la culture (Paris)
Year: 2024

Abstract
title: Studies in the word-order of Sanskrit prose.
Creators: name: Lahiri, Prabodh Chandra
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1935

description: The thesis, entitled as above, is divided into ten chapters dealing with the order of words mainly in Sanskrit Prose. In order to cover a long period of development, passages in prose have been selected from the (1) Aitareya Brahmana, (2) Mahabharata, (3) Rook and Pillar edicts of Asoka, (4) Majjhi Nikaya and (5) Da?akumaracarita and the word-order analysed. In the first chapter, an account is given of notices on the question of word-order in the works on the orthodox systems of Sanskrit grammar. Poetics and Logic and also of what has already been done regarding the study of word-order in Sanskrit. In each of the subsequent chapters the position of a particular syntactica element is traced in all the texts selected till a considerable number has been collected. The general tendency of the position of the particular element in each of the works has been established by figures showing the frequency of its occurrence in that position. The number of the cases of exceptions has been determined and accounted for as far as possible. It has been shown, wherever it is so, how a particular order was mostly used in one period and how a different order was favoured in another till gradually it became more or less fixed. Reference has occasionally been made to some of the modern Indo-Aryan languages where these seem to show an order strikingly similar to or different from the one with which we are familiar in the several texts examined for the present study.
title: The political and cultural history of the Panjab, including the North-West Frontier Province, in its earliest period.
Creators: name: Chandra, Lakshmi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1940

description: The thesis submitted forms only part of a comprehensive work on the early history of the Panjab material for which has been collected during the course of my study in England. It gives for the first time a detailed account of the Panjab, including the North-West Frontier Province, in its earliest period. In the first place it may be pointed out that references to the Panjab in ancient texts on the whole are scanty, but the country has proved to be comparatively rich in materials, as a result of recent excavations at Harappa in the District of Montgomery and other contemporary sites in the Indus Valley. These excavations, as will be seen, have yielded antiquities of high historical and cultural value and made the history of India the most glorious and renowned throughout the world. Hence history of ancient Panjab that has become specially interesting is an important desideratum of Indian studies. The only history proper available at present is one written long ago in 1891 by K.B. Mihammad Iatif, who, strangely enough, devoted some seventy five pages only to the early periods periods in his otherwise quite extensive and useful book, and as suoh can hardly be called complete and satisfactory, apart from its being now quite out of date. The part of history described in the following pages is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is General Introduction dealing with subjects as are essential for the understanding of history, such as ancient boundaries, nomenclature, physical geography, language and population. The next chapter, The Dawn of Panjab History, gives prehistory of the country which is almost archaeological, based as it is on the Indus Valley finds. The third chapter again divided into two parts deals fully with history of Aryans in the Panjab, the first part including the story previous to their entry into that country. This is followed by a chapter describing Aryan Culture evolved in the ancient Panjab or the Sapta Sindhu, as early Aryans used to call it. Here the contact of Aryans with the former people in the Sapta Sindhu, and the influence of the latter's institutions on the Aryan Civilization have been noticed, wherever possible. The last chapter of the thesis contains a legendary account, as found in late traditions, of Aryans, with special reference to those of the Panjab. Its main feature is an examination of the theory propounded by Pargiter on the origin of Aryans in the mid-Himalayan region and on beginnings of their history in the Gangetic rather than in the Indus Valley. As to the sources of this history, it may be said that they are practically the same as those of history of ancient India - primary texts in Sanskrit, Pali, etc., foreign records, inscriptions and archaeological material.
title: The influence of the Home Government on land revenue and judicial administration in the presidency of Fort William in Bengal from 1807 to 1822.
Creators: name: Baliga, B. S.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1933

description: In this thesis I have traced the influence of the Home Authorities on the land-revenue and judicial administration in the Bengal Presidency during the governments of Lord Minto and Lord Hastings. It is a subject which has been little understood or investigated, important though it is, as covering a formative epoch which subjected the old system to criticism and began to build a new. Short sketches of administration have, indeed, been given by Mill and Wilson in their history of India; but these sketches trace neither the origin,nor the motives,nor the effects of the policy pursued, except in a superficial manner. Moreover, they hardly do any justice to the opinions, endeavours and influence of the Home Authorities. I have, therefore, based my work largely on original records so carefully preserved at the India Office. As will be seen, the reorganization at the Board's Office in 1807, the defects engendered by the Cornwallis system, the conservatism of the Bengal Government, the increasing activities in administrative matters manifested at the India House, these, and many more things, gradually induced the Home Authorities to reform if not to transform the very basis of the existing system. In order to bring out the full significance of this, as also to throw light on a little known but allied topic, I have shown what the Home Grovernment was, its composition, constitution and working. I wish to direct the attention of the students of Indian History to the caution, perseverance and zeal with which the Home Authorities studied the intricacies of Indian administration and prescribed remedies. That they sometimes stumbled was only natural; that they ever pushed their way to progress, in face of infinite difficulty and opposition, was beyond doubt admirable.
title: The craftsmanship, iconography and background of the Balinese shadow play.
Creators: name: Hobart, Angela
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1979

description: This thesis is intended to be the first detailed account of the craftsmanship, iconography and background of the Balinese shadow play. The theatre has an important place in Balinese culture both as it is seen to be the original art form and also as it is an essential part of religious rites. The stories upon which the plays are based are taken mainly from the Hindu epics, the Mahabharats and Ramayana. The characters, most of who are derived from the epics, are first introduced. This is a relevant background for understanding the iconography. The thesis then turns to look at the making of the puppets. From this it emerges that complex cultural and ritual regulations underpin the craft. This leads into the largest section of the work which deals with an examination of the principles underlying the depiction of the mythical characters and their significance in terms of both the texts and the oral tradition. It is evident that the puppets are composed of standard parts which carry a more or less defined meaning. There is one important class of figures which stand out by the uniqueness of their depiction, but do not exist in the epics at all. These are the servants who are studied in some detail. It is useful further to stand back and survey a collection of puppets as a whole. This reveals complex forms of connections with social institutions and cultural beliefs. A study of the Iconography is incomplete however without an examination of the performance itself in which the puppets are seen as part of a more elaborate system including other dramatic elements. This provides the means by which cultural ideas are portrayed both through the visual form and the spoken word to the Balinese.
title: Parallelism in the use and construction of certain grammatical and lexical items in Cambodian and Thai: A typological comparative study.
Creators: name: Nacaskul, Karnchana
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: Many of the languages spoken in South East Asia, whilst not related to each other at all, do nevertheless possess a number of linguistic features in common. The comparisons that linguists have already made, based on historical evidence and dialect material, with a view to tracing with more certainty to which language-families the languages of South East Asia belong, provide ample proof that a genetic relationship common to all languages of the area is inadmissible. The author's work concentrates on the typological study of grammatical and lexical features of two languages with the aim of providing bases for analysis of any two or more languages that possess parallelism in expression of thought and communication of information, irrespective of whether these languages are related or unrelated. Cambodian and Thai are selected for investigation because, apart from the intrinsic interest in them as languages, they display remarkable similarities of speech habits in spite of their being unrelated and, originally, very dissimilar languages. A considerable number of words and expressions in Cambodian and Thai are analysed and compared, both grammatically and lexically, in order to discover the closeness of the parallelism for usages and constructions. Words and certain types of expression, being simple items, are grammatically classified into word-classes categorized as Isolatives, Substantives aind Predicatives for the purposes of lexical comparison. Compounds and Elaborations, having the nature of a construction, are analysed according to their patterns of constructs. Lexical meanings, recognized as belonging to these constructions in the two languages, are then compared, resulting in a determination of the close similarities in meaning and pattern for constructions. It is hoped that this method of typological comparison may prove valuable in understanding processes governing the acquisition by languages of South East Asia of common characteristics.
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name: Theel, Marcus
name: Hohenberg, Sebastian
Publisher: name: SAGE Journals
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 150402 Hospitality Management
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description: Supplemental Material, jm.18.0388-File003 for Marketing Excellence: Nature, Measurement, and Investor Valuations by Christian Homburg, Marcus Theel and Sebastian Hohenberg in Journal of Marketing
title: Ancestry and descent in Mesopotamia from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian Period.
Creators: name: Bayliss, D. K. M.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1971

description: This thesis is a study of the institutions and concepts of recruitment and transmission by kinship groups in ancient Mesopotamia from C. 2,000 B.C. to C. 600 B.C. Chapter I examines the evidence of kinship relations and the structure of households, and draws the conclusion that extended households existed, and may even have been typical, at least in the MA period, whereas lineage groups were never typical in Mesopotamia. Evidence points to the authoritarian role of the father as household head and the crucial importance of the relationship between father and son. Daughters, however, were only temporary members of the kinship group, leaving it on marriage. In Chapter II systems of inheritance and succession are examined. At all periods control of property, especially land, lay with men, and deviations from the norm of father- to-son succession to both property and roles were rare. The Chapter also shows the supplementary methods of recruitment, especially adoption. The remainder of the thesis examines Mesopotamian concepts of the relationship between descendants and ancestors. The desire for descendants to perpetuate individual identity was apparently widespread, but it would appear that only in the royal family was the memory of ancestors preserved for more than a few generations, whether by written records or by the practice of ancestor worship. The last Chapter deals with lineage as a concept. Birth was not the exclusive measure of status in Mesopotamian society, but was frequently used to maintain status, especially by NA kings. Among commoners descent was less important, but its importance increased in the course of history, at least in Babylonia, as shown by the development of ancestral names. An Appendix of notes on kinship terminology and a Glossary of relevant terms are added.
title: Slavery and the household in Bengal, 1770-1880.
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Indrani
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: This thesis outlines a political economy within which slaves lived and worked, within the households of the hegemons in Bengal between the end of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth. Within household-polities that contained slaves, there were many distinctions according to skill, age, area of origin, and principally of gender. Female slaves, of great importance within the inner slaving economies of India, were however differently thought of, and their work differently conceptualised in the indigenous and colonial regimes. This led to a conflict of laws around issues of legitimacy, marriage, succession and inheritance in the period under study. Where colonial administrators thought of marriage rituals as absent from slave social relations, indigenous holders spoke of female slaves as daughters, and secondary wives. Where the British colonial legal systems had no place for the peculium of the slave, indigenous systems relied on the income-generating and maintenance-providing aspects of the peculium of their slaves. The system of slave-holding that emerged in different sectors of the domestic economy as a result of these multiple conflicts of laws, and presumptions, was thus much more like the colonial Atlantic systems than had hitherto been the case. For, in spite of differences between two slave-holding systems, the colonial state did not abolish slave-holding, as much as changed the organising principles that lent internal consistency to the older system. So while slavery was allowed to persist, the conditions of slaves and masters alike were diminished. At the same time, the colonial regime exerted a more precise control over the labours of slave-women and girls, always critical within the domestic labour economy, towards its own ends. The apotheosis of colonial legal intervention in this task was the Contagious Diseases and Cantonment Acts of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
title: Corticolous lichens as potential bioindicators of fire history : A study in the cerrado of the Distrito Federal, central Brazil.
Creators: name: Mistry, Jayalaxshmi
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1996

description: The aim of this thesis is to investigate the potential use of epiphytic corticolous lichens as indicators of fire history in the cerrado (savannas) of central Brazil. Work was carried out at the Reserva Ecologica do IBGE and the Jardim Botanico de Brasilia, 33 km outside Brasilia D.F., in plots of cerrado denso within the 'Fire Project' area. Each plot was subjected to a specific prescribed burning regime, with study sites varying from a plot protected from fire for over 20 years to a plot burned every two years. The research was carried out in three stages: 1) a preliminary survey of plots with different fire histories, measuring variables about the lichen habitat and the lichen communities present in the habitats; 2) lichen sampling in plots with different fire histories, where collection and identification of lichen species took place; 3) sampling of the lichen genus, Bulbothrix, in plots with different fire histories, measuring abundance and size of individual lichens. Field techniques used included plotless sampling, and identification of lichens was carried out using taxonomic keys, both in the field and in the laboratory. The results show that fire is a major determinant of epiphytic corticolous lichen communities in cerrado denso vegetation. The abundance, distribution, and recolonisation of lichen communities can clearly be correlated with the frequency and behaviour, in terms of homogeneity and flame heights, of the fires that have occurred in each of the plots surveyed. Particular lichen species show differential sensitivities to fire frequency and behaviour, and as the length of the fire-free period increases, Bulbothrix individuals become greater in size. Using these various responses of lichens, at the community, population and species level, a Lichen Fire History (LFH) Key was constructed for estimating fire frequency, fire behaviour, and the 'time-since-the-last' fire. The LFH Key is then presented as a simple booklet to be used in the field.
title: A critical analysis of Jean Thenaud's Kabbalistic Manuscript Arsenal ms.5061.
Creators: name: Christie-Miller, I. R.
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: Jean Thenaud, a Franciscan from the region of Angouleme had intimate access to the royal family of Francis I (1494-1547), King of France, who commissioned Thenaud to journey to the Holy Land. Although the report on this voyage was published all Thenaud's other works, which include poetical commentary, horoscopes, monumental moralistic directives for the royal household and two Kabbalistic works remained in manuscript. (All his works were written in French). The first Kabbalistic work was the 1519 manuscript La saincte et tres chrestienne cabale metrifiee (BN. Fr. 882) which was in verse and which, perhaps because of this, did not gain royal approval. Thenaud rewrote his findings and in 1521 duly presented Traite de la cabale (Arsenal ms. 5061). The present thesis compromises an analysis of the Kabbalistic oeuvre of Thenaud plus an assessment of the state of Hebrew learning in Christian circles, particularly in France, up to the end of the sixteenth century. The edition of Arsenal ms. 5061 includes commentary and translation. A text-only transcription of the original is also provided on diskettes. At first sight Arsenal ms. 5061 is thoroughly neo-Platonic. It follows the Kabbalistic works of Johann Reuchlin, employs a cosmology and numerology derived from Dionysius the Areopagite and re-interprets Kabbalism by means of the Figure of the ninth century Rabanus Maurus of Fulda. Although Jews had been banned from France in 1394 the thesis proposes that Thenaud had direct access to an otherwise unrecognised Hebrew Kabbalistic source. This is supported by analysis of the distribution of the endings of the names of the 72 angels together with the form of exorcism given in Treatise 4. Furthermore new research in this thesis concerning Jewish-Christian relationships as found in Toledot Yeshu confirms that Thenaud did have direct access to a distinct Hebraic tradition. This tradition, mediated through Thenaud's European scholarship, allowed him to present the Kabbalah in accordance with medieval cosmology making full use of superbly illustrated colour diagrams.
title: Conditions on nuclear expressions in phonology.
Creators: name: Cobb, Margaret
Publisher: name: SOAS University of London
Year: 1997

description: This thesis aims to provide a principled account of the distribution of 'tense'/'lax', and 'high/low' vowels in vowel harmony systems. It is based on the principles and parameters of Government Phonology in which variation is accounted for by possible combinations of parameter settings. To explain variation in 'tense/lax' and high/low' distribution, I exploit the interaction of the parametric aspects of three universal mechanisms: Licensing Constraints, Head-licensing (both Kaye (1993b)), and the Complexity Condition (Harris (1990a)). The type of language data this thesis seeks to account for has received some attention in the phonological literature, in terms of other frameworks as well as Government Phonology. These treatments are evaluated here. Two of the three main tools employed are recent inclusions in Government Phonology. The role of Licensing Constraints as parameters on element distribution is explored in the context of the principles and parameters drawn on in this thesis. Licensing Constraints have certain repercussions for other aspects of the theory. These are explored in detail. Licensing Constraints interact with Head-Licensing, a principle explaining 'ATR' distribution. Additionally, I claim that some aspects of Head-Licensing are subject to parametric variation. The possible combinations of parameter settings are presented, illustrated with a variety of language data. The Complexity Condition is claimed to apply parametrically in processes taking place at the level of nuclear projection. As Head-Licensing occurs at this level, some languages are expected to enforce the Complexity Condition. I examine cases where this takes place, and the variety of strategies employed by languages for its maintenance. Finally, I explore how the interaction of Licensing Constraints, Head- Licensing and the Complexity Condition might provide a unified account of harmony processes traditionally described in terms of 'raising', 'lowering', '+ATR' and '- ATR'. I evaluate, and propose analyses of some cases from the literature.