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An Analysis of Paddy Productivity Growth in West Bengal and Orissa [PDF]
In this paper, we attempt to analyse the changes in paddy productivity growth in West Bengal and Orissa during eighties and early nineties. Results reveal that input productivity has played an important role in the agricultural growth performance in the ...
Renuka Pillai
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The Mechanical Impact of the Tibetan Plateau on the Seasonal Evolution of the South Asian Monsoon [PDF]
, 2012 The impact of the Tibetan Plateau on the South Asian monsoon is examined using a hierarchy of atmospheric general circulation models. During the premonsoon season and monsoon onset (April–June), when westerly winds over the Southern Tibetan Plateau are ...
Bordoni, Simona +2 more
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The role of soil moisture in the inland penetration of Indian monsoon low‐pressure systems
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.We use the Advanced Weather Research and Forecasting model to examine the role of soil moisture in the inland penetration of Indian monsoon low‐pressure systems (LPSs). We find that LPSs penetrate deeply into India despite a dry land surface; however, their inland penetration is adversely affected when there is a reduction in the total surface heat ...
Akshay Deoras +2 more
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Indian Journal of Animal SciencesThe present study envisages the prevalence of biofilm producing, methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, isolated from cattle milk of different agro-climatic zones of an eastern state of India, West Bengal.
RAJARSHI BARDHAN +6 more
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Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal [PDF]
Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such as the caste and religious divides in India.
Kar, Saibal +2 more
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Total Sanitation Campaign - Changing Face of Rural Burdwan [PDF]
, 2003 Burdwan District of West Bengal is considered to be both the ‘Granary of Bengal' and the ‘Ruhr of Bengal'. But the sanitation system in the villages were (and still are in many cases) non-existent with open defacetation being the predominant practice. As
Majumder, Rajarshi
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Population, Forest Degradation and Environment: A Nexus [PDF]
In order to examine the trend and impact of relationship between growth of forest resource and population in West Bengal, a province of India, in the time series data for every ten-year from 1901-1991 this study suggests that the increase of population ...
Das, Nimai, Sarker, Debnarayan
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CMFRI opens research centre in West Bengal Business Standard dated 30th March 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 Kochi-headquartered Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) is set to open a new regional research centre in Digha, West Bengal, aimed at fulfilling research and development needs, an official said on Thursday.
CMFRI, Library
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Migrant workers in the ILO's 'Global Alliance Against Forced Labour' report: a critical appraisal [PDF]
, 2008 Temporary migration for agricultural work has long historical provenance globally, and has increased in the most recent period of globalisation. In this paper, using examples based on my own research on both cross-border (to the UK) and internal (within ...
Rogaly, Ben
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