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Employment and Unemployment Situation among Major Religious Groups in India
eSocialSciences; National Sample Survey Office NSSO - 2013
This report is based on the eighth quinquennial survey on employment and unemployment conducted in the 66th round of NSS during July 2009 to June 2010. The survey was spread over 7402 villages and 5252 urban blocks covering 100957 households (59129 in rural areas and 41828 in urban areas) and...
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Event, Memory and Historical Analysis: A Reconstruction of Temple Destructions in India
Suman, Amit K; Singh, Namita - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper will highlight the myths that surround the question of mass conversion to Islam and the so called temple … destructions by the Muslims during the formative years of the Sultanate and the Mughal rule in India. In this paper, the authors … understanding of Islam. Some of the important questions dealt with in this paper are: Were the attacks on Hindu temples during the …
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Identity Formation, Nationhood and Women An Overview of Issues
Raman, Vasanthi - eSocialSciences - 2010
The essay is begun with a reference to a television programme on one of the Hindi news channels - titled Burqe me Atankvad which was telecast sometime in mid-2005. The complex and turmoil-ridden and tortuous interrelationship between gender, national and other multiple identities are explored....
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An Ethnographic Study on Women in Prostitution in Bihar
Srivastava, Nina - eSocialSciences - 2008
looked into the complementary role of NGOs, civil society, family. Interviews with 55 female sex-workers in the Chaturbhuj …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528256
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Women and the RSS
Ganneri, Namrata - eSocialSciences - 2014
Bound together by fraternal ties, the RSS and the various members of the Parivar share all pervasive ideas of ‘female virtue’ and the ideal of ‘Hindu family’ that serves to push aside a more comprehensive understanding of the multiplicity of women’s lives, power...
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It’s a Boy! Women and Non-Monetary Benefits from a Son in India
Zimmermann, Laura - eSocialSciences - 2012
Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute to the persistence of this phenomenon because they derive substantial long-run non-monetary benefits from giving birth to a son in the form of an improvement in their...
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"I did not ask for it". Sexual Harassment: Impressions from Mumbai
Gartenberg, Indira; Priya, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2011
Sexual harassment is a global issue. In a recent case in Mumbai, two young men, Keenan Santos (24) and Reuben Fernandez (29) were stabbed on 20 Oct 2011 while confronting some unknown men eve-teasing their female friends. Santos and Fernandez had to lose their lives in refusing to accept this...
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Conflict, Crisis, and Abuse in Dharavi, Mumbai: Experiences from Six Years at a Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children
Daruwalla, Nayreen; Osrin, David; Fernandez, Armida; … - eSocialSciences - 2009
Many victims of domestic violence go to hospitals, but interaction with doctors and nurses tended to stop at treatment for injuries. Engaging with the wider issues—emotional, psychiatric, social, and legal—requires confidence, time, training, protocols, and resources, all of which...
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Social Security Nets for Marine Fisheries
Paul, Antonyto; Kurien, John - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper attempts to explain the provision of social security in the fisheries sector of Kerala State in south India …
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
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