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Review of Janani: Mothers, Daughters, Motherhood edited by Rinki Bhattacharya; Sage India, New Delhi, 2006; Pp 200, Rs. 280.
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This paper looks at a number of questions about the social impacts of large dams. It does not set out original or integrated findings in these matters. Rather, the material here comes from experience in a number of roles in relation to a number of specific projects. [This is one of 126...
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This paper provides an economic analysis of underground gun markets drawing on interviews with gang members, gun dealers, professional thieves, prostitutes, police, public school security guards and teens in the city of Chicago, complemented by results from government surveys of recent arrestees...
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domain of socio-cultural and political life. While some elements in this sphere are in a state of recession …
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The river Balasan near Siliguri carries the natural resources like stone, sand, boulders. People live on the riverside and are involved in work like collection of stones and sand, crushing the stones into different shapes and sizes and loading them into vehicles. These raw materials are...
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On November 28, 2003, roughly 300 grassroots activists, people affected by large dams and representatives from NGOs gathered in a small village in Rasi Salai district in Northeast Thailand. They met for a five-day conference on large dams under the rallying cry of “Rivers for Life.â€As...
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This paper aims to bring out the need to incorporate cultural sensitivity to ensure the principle of essentiality in …
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This paper maps the organizational diversity of the NGO sector in Karnataka, a “middle order state†(Vyasulu, 1995), and demonstrates that conceptualizing NGO actions vis-à-vis the state dichotomously–either as a close collaboration or as a conflictual, oppositional force–is...
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The question of matriarchate as female dominance, remains unresolved. While non materialist anthropologists dismissed it outright, socialist scholars accepted it as a stage in social evolution. If matrifocal clans or collective mothering oncet provided power and assistance for raising a human...
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Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology for studying poverty was developed to help examine movements out of and into poverty at the...
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