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Milk and Bondage: Enslaved Wet Nurses in the Eighteenth‐Century Cape Colony
ABSTRACT This article examines the social history of enslaved wet nurses in the eighteenth‐century Cape Colony, arguing that the romanticised depiction of these women within settler households was not a softening of the system of slavery but an integral part of how it functioned.
Eva Marie Lehner
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DETECTION OF CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER VIRUS BY RT-PCR IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA [PDF]
Classical swine fever is a deadly disease of swine, caused by a RNA virus. The present study has identified presence of the classical swine fever virus (CSFV) in pigs of West Bengal by one step reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) performed using 5’ NTR ...
Sumit Chowdhury +5 more
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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Public Financing of Secondary Education in West Bengal [PDF]
58-73Public financing is critical in providing adequate resources for equitable expansion of secondary education. This paper discusses the trends in public financing of secondary education in West Bengal during 1980-81 to 2008-09.
Dasgupta, Souvik, Jana, Sebak Kumar
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti +2 more
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Dipasri Bhattacharya,1 Antonio M Esquinas,2 Mohanchandra Mandal3 1Department of Anaesthesiology, Pain Medicine and Critical Care, R.G.Kar Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India; 2Critical Care Specialist and Staff Physician ...
Bhattacharya D, Esquinas AM, Mandal M
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Invited Lecturer at West Bengal State University and Bankura University, West Bengal ...
Becevic, Zulmir,
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Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
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Updated Chorotypes of Terrestrial Vertebrates Shed New Light on Zoogeographical Regions in China
Chorotype represents a fundamental concept for identifying groups of species that share similar distribution patterns. However, the last comprehensive revision of animal chorotypes in China was performed more than a decade ago. Here, we update the chorotype classifications for 1040 species and propose an updated zoogeographical regionalization scheme ...
Baoming Zhang +6 more
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INCIDENCE OF CANINE BABESIOSIS IN AND AROUND KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA [PDF]
A total of 226 numbers of dogs (114 male and 112 female) in and around Kolkata were screened during November 2012 to July 2013 for Babesiosis and out of them 72 animals (31.86%) were found clinically and cytologically positive with higher incidence in ...
M.K. Das +6 more
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