Natural organic matter in sedimentary basins and its relation to arsenic in anoxic ground water: the example of West Bengal and its worldwide implications [PDF]
, 2004 In order to investigate the mechanism of As release to anoxic ground water in alluvial aquifers, the authors sampled ground waters from 3 piezometer nests, 79 shallow (80 m) wells, in an area 750 m by 450 m, just north of Barasat, near Kolkata (Calcutta),
Banerjee, DM +12 more
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Critical nutritional stress among adult tribal populations of West Bengal and Orissa, India. [PDF]
, 2012 This paper deals with cross-sectional studies carried out during the period 2004-2007. It is based on eight data sets of tribals of Paschim Medinipur and Bankura Districts of West Bengal and Keonjhar District of Orissa.
Kaushik Bose, Samiran Bisai
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The Voice of the Modern Bengali
Docomomo Journal, 2022 "You have to be a world man and a Bengali. It's impossible otherwise ... When I mention standing on one's own soil ... it is to find oneself, but not to find oneself and become stagnant.
Nasheet Rumy +1 more
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Experiencing space–time: the stretched lifeworlds of migrant workers in India [PDF]
, 2012 In the relatively rare instances when the spatialities of temporary migrant work, workers’ journeys, and labour-market negotiations have been the subject of scholarly attention, there has been little work that integrates time into the analysis.
Bag K +30 more
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Convicts and coolies : rethinking indentured labour in the nineteenth century [PDF]
, 2009 This article seeks to shift the frame of analysis within which discussions of Indian indentured migration take place. It argues that colonial discourses and practices of indenture are best understood not with regard to the common historiographical ...
Allen Richard B. +24 more
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Hunger Habitus: State, Society, and Starvation in Twentieth-Century Bengal
East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2021 This article offers a brief summary of the complex factors leading to the famine in Bengal in the 1940s and discusses its longer-term impacts—the afterlife, so to speak—of famine. This episode of starvation claimed as many as five million lives in Bengal,
Janam Mukherjee
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Sundarban mangroves: diversity, ecosystem services and climate change impacts [PDF]
, 2016 The Bengal delta coast harboring the famous Sundarban mangroves is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Already, salinity intrusion, increasing cyclones and anomalies in rainfall, and temperature, are causing many social and livelihood problems ...
Dey, Mouri +6 more
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Double burden of malnutrition among urban Bengalee adolescent boys in Midnapore, West Bengal, India [PDF]
, 2012 Malnutrition is an important public health problem worldwide. Therefore a study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of adolescent thinness, overweight and obesity in Midnapore town, West Bengal, India.
D Mahalanabis +4 more
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Understanding drivers of human-leopard conflicts in the Indian Himalayan region: Spatio-temporal patterns of conflicts and perception of local communities towards conserving large carnivores. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Human killing is the decisive and most critical expression of human-leopard conflict and needs to be addressed sensitively to maintain local support for leopard conservation in India.
Dipanjan Naha, S Sathyakumar, G S Rawat
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İlahiyat Tetkikleri DergisiThis article critically examines the resistance movements initiated and led by Sufi leaders against British colonial rule in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, focusing on present-day Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura ...
Dr. Saeyd Rashed Hasan Chowdury
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