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Centralization of Decentralized Governance - Evidence from West Bengal Panchayat [PDF]
Democratic decentralization in the state of West Bengal, of its own, are not producing systems that are more effective or more accountable to local needs and interests.
Misra, Jaydev
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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Educational Advancement of Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal (1947-2011) [PDF]
, 2014 The present paper focuses on the educational advancement of Scheduled Tribes in West Bengal. The Government has taken up various welfare schemes for the educational advancement of Scheduled Tribes.
Das, Prabir, Guha, Nikhiles
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Under the Shadow of Gorkhaland
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic JournalThe Darjeeling Hills of West Bengal and Sikkim, which have had a shared history of interaction among multiple communities, are today demarcated by their federal borders, as defined by the Indian Nation State. These absolute margins spatially separate out
Jordan Kinchum Tshering Namchu
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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India [PDF]
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to ...
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2023 Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) continue to pose significant challenges to patient safety and healthcare systems worldwide. Poor hand hygiene among healthcare professionals remains a major contributing factor to the spread of HAIs ...
Tapajyoti Mukherjee +5 more
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Arsenic and Drinking Water in West Bengal [PDF]
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2005 To the Editor: I read the research findings of Basu et al. ([1][1]) with great interest. However, there are some points which should be discussed. The authors showed that the level of lymphocytes with micronuclei in control (unexposed) persons was extremely low (1.66‰).
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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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.
Kayal, Madhumanti +2 more
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