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The isssues of primary education in India - current challenges and objectives
Váradyová, Anna ; Hons, Pavel (advisor) ; Hříbek, Martin (referee)
Elementary education can be considered the main building block of the whole education system. The thesis tries to answer questions related to the main problems of elementary education in India. It pays attention to the effectivity and availability of education in India and tries to outline difficulties in educating specific groups of population such as women, low castes and people living in remote areas. It outlines the methods used by the Indian Government to deal with these problems especially by way of reforms of education. It also tries to relate literacy rate with other factors such as economic growth or standard of living.
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Dalit Christians in India
Machová, Dita ; Hons, Pavel (advisor) ; Štipl, Zdeněk (referee)
Diploma paper deals with the history and current situation of Dalit Christian communities in India. It elaborates the phenomenon of mass movements, which represented a significant milestone in the history of Christianity in India. During these movements a substantial amount of untouchable castes converted to Christianity and the number of Christians multiplied. In the twentieth century Dalit Christians have become marginalized group by government measures which promised compensation benefits only for groups Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits. At the beginning of the twenty-first century Christian and Muslim communities in India are facing violent attacks made by militant Hindu groups. Since 1980s Dalit Christian communities have come together and fight for obtaining government benefits and against oppression made by churches.
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Indian foreign policy towards the U.S. during the term of Indira Gandhi
Gilánik, Vít ; Štipl, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hons, Pavel (referee)
The focus of bachelor thesis is foreign politics between India and the United States Of America in period of rule prime minister Indira Gandhi. The thesis is focused on four main fields: development of indo-american relationship; Pakistan - the origin of state Bangladesh; Soviet Union and Peoples Republic Of China. The introduction of bachelor thesis contains insight of these four fields up to the voting of prime minister Indria Gandhi in her office. The aim of the thesis is to describe development of situation of three areas as described before between the years 1966 to 1977 show political and diplomatical steps of both Indian and American governments. The conclusion of thesis contains development of these topics till nowadays.
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Political Emancipation of Dalits
Kocábková, Eliška ; Štipl, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hons, Pavel (referee)
The main aim of the thesis is to summarize and analyse developement of the political emancipation of Dalits, the lowest classes of Indian society, from the 19th century to the present days. The paper pursues important events and personalities in political equalization of this section (the antibrahmanic movements in the 19th century, the merit of Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar, formation of the first political parties protecting rights of the Dalits, the Dalit Panther movement). The thesis further inquires other significant issues as compensatory discrimination and violence on the Dalits. A specific chapter is a case study of the political party Bahujan Samaj Party that represents interests of the Dalits in Uttar Pradesh.
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Caste Politics of India
Pecharová, Petra ; Hons, Pavel (advisor) ; Štipl, Zdeněk (referee)
This thesis discusses the trends in the caste tension in the politics of the modern Indian state, i.e. from Independence to the present day. The main topic of this work is the importance of caste and caste system in the current politics of India and the impact of these elements on the formation and operation of Indian political parties and their adaptation to the changing relationship between caste and politics. Special emphasis is placed on affirmative action policies as a triggering mechanism of political mobilization and transformation of the importance of caste in Indian politics.
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Verbo-nominal syntagmas in Hindi
Varmuža, Martin ; Kostič, Svetislav (advisor) ; Hons, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with description of linguistic phenomena of Verbo- Nominal Syntagmas (VNS) in Hindi, which is a connection of a noun or an adjective with a verb forming together a single predicate. These so called complex predicates are characteristic feature of Hindi and can be traced here more frequently than for example in Czech or English. There are two elements in VNS: Semantically weakened verb - it becomes rather a functional word, which means that it is a subject to conjugation. Sometimes term light verb is used. Though we can still perceive that the verbal element somehow modifies the new concept in accordance with it's basic meaning. The other element is a noun or an adjective. This part is the cornerstone of VNS from the semantic point of view. Concerning syntactic relations between the two components of VNS this thesis follows and summarizes descriptions made by Graham Bailey and Burton-Page and it also gives insight into research that has been carried out in this area.
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Malaiyaka Tamil Youth in Sri Lanka: Values, Aspirations, and the Forming of a New Elite
Novotný, Radek ; Vavroušková, Stanislava (advisor) ; Strnad, Jaroslav (referee) ; Hons, Pavel (referee)
Radek Novotný Malaiyaka Tamil Youth in Sri Lanka: Values, Aspirations, and the Forming of a New Elite Malaiyaka Tamils are a minority and lowest-status group within the society of Sri Lanka. A majority of them were brought by the British colonialists from India to work on their coffee, later tea plantations in the course of the 19th and 20th century. They were deprived of their basic civil rights in 1940's. However, the Malaiyaka Tamils have been undergoing a process of considerable social-economic changes over the last three decades, which was launched especially by the attainment of citizenship, growth of educational opportunities, and growth of civic and political awareness. The young Malaiyaka Tamils have an opportunity to become the first relatively well-educated generation and new elite of their ethnic group. This work attempts to analyse the prospects of the Malaiyaka Tamils youth's upward social mobility process by investigating their aspirations, values, and attitudes. I conducted field research in the so-called Hill Country of Sri Lanka, and I collected data by using methods, especially, of semi-structured interviews and questionnaire survey. We can assume that the target population will undergo a process of structural upward social mobility, and will become the new social- economic...
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Political Movements of Dalits in South India
Blecha, Vlastimil ; Vavroušková, Stanislava (advisor) ; Filipský, Jan (referee) ; Hons, Pavel (referee)
While growing strength of Dalit political organizations in India in the last years has been usually welcomed as a manifestation of rising self-confidence of Dalits and an expression of new orientation of the Indian society towards more social justice and equality, this thesis advocates for some restraint from an unwarranted optimism. It focuses on the impact of Dalit political movements and affirmative action on governance in Tamil Nadu rural societies and it sets the Dalit movement and the affirmative action on behalf of Dalits in the context of Dravidian political parties that have been the leading force in the Tamil Nadu since 1967. The main questions I am addressing in this thesis are: "Which factors/institutions are conducive to good governance/orderly rule in communities divided by caste while carrying out the project of social and political empowerment of Dalits?" "What is the impact of affirmative action and Dalit political parties on local communities and by extension on Tamil Nadu society?" The thesis uses neo-institutionalist theoretical framework and it is predominantly based on comparison of two different experiences of two Tamil Nadu villages with the Dalit movement and the affirmative action. I have collected most of the empirical data for the thesis during my two periods of fieldwork in...
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Aspects of Linquistic Variability in Tamil Short Fiction
Vihanová, Zuzana ; Vacek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Filipský, Jan (referee) ; Hons, Pavel (referee)
Aspects of Linguistic Variability in Tamil Short Fiction (Aspekty jazykové variability v tamilské krátké próze) Zuzana Vihanová Abstract This thesis examines the linguistic variability of contemporary Tamil short fiction. Based on the concept of markedness, it explores the distribution, structure, and function of standard, substandard, and superstandard linguistic varieties used in current Tamil writings. It concentrates on both individual and collective aspects of the use of this diglossic language in literature. The source-base for the analysis are short stories of seven Tamil authors of different social dialectal background. Authors and their texts recruit from the Brahmin, non-Brahmin and Dalit milieu. Historical perspective is brought into attention in the analysis of writings of Pudumaippittan, one of the first distinguished short-story writers. I observe the shift in the semantic markednes of literary and spoken Tamil use in his work, the introduction of the Pillai dialect into literature and its infiltration to the literary language, same as the impact of the outside sources, i.e., English and Sanskrit, on his writing. In the works of another non-Brahmin writer, Baskar Sakti, I examine the use and structure of spoken Tamil in contemporary fiction, as well as the functionally marked varieties he uses...
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