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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. The relevance of the past: from Sir William Jones to Amartya Sen/K. Paddayya. 2. Indian prehistory viewed against recent theories of dispersal of man/D.K. Bhattacharya. 3. Fishing communities in South and South-East Asia/Himanshu Prabha Ray. 4. Urban and non-urban culture levels revealed by the archaeological remains of Varanasi/Vidula Jayaswal. 5. Gene differentiation among Karnataka populations/M.R. Gangadhar and S.C. Jai Prabhakar. 6. Colonial impact on ecological and social diversity in India and its consequences/Subhadra Mitra Channa. 7. Sowing the seeds of diversity: food sovereignty and globalisation in India/Miriam Sharma and Elizabeth Louis. 8. Language maintenance and language shift: a case of the Jewish community in the west and the east/Pratibha Bhattacharya. 9. The oraon cycle of time: an anthropological study of diversities through Birth practices/Abhik Ghosh. 10. Redefining Khasi boundaries: absorption of globalising tendencies within Khasi culture/Shamila Ghosh. 11. Local self-Government (LSG) in Nagaland: a study of organisational diversity among the Nagas/Jonali Devi. 12. Urban factor in culture of a traditional community/Shabeena Yasmin Saikia. 13. Ethnic divide and the imperatives of development in North-East India/Kamal K. Misra. 14. Critical nutritional stress among adult tribal populations of West Bengal and Orissa, India/Kaushik Bose and Samiran Bisai. 15. Human diversity and some epidemiological studies/R.P. Srivastava. 16. Greying of populations and feminisation of ageing: challenges faced by ageing women/Amrita Bagga. 17. Constructing a non-Brahmin culture: assessing the efforts of E.V. Ramasami/Debi Chatterjee. 18. Immigrants and cultural diversity: Indian urban context/Sumita Chaudhuri. 19. Social anthropological requisites of India s development: a case approach/Asoke Basu. 20. Diversity and development in Bangladesh: current status and future tasks/Dalem Ch. Barman. 21. The present bio-diversity and natural phenomenon in North-Eastern region of Bangladesh/Abdul Awwal Biswas. 22. Ethnic, social and cultural diversities of Bhutan a Himalayan State of South Asia/Sekh Rahim Mondal. 23. Struggling identities: Vanniyalettto (Vedda) of Sri Lanka/David Bluendell.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Contents: I. Elderly Santal women: a study at village Belkuli, West Bengal:1. Introduction. 2. Field methodology. 3. Region of study. 4. Village demography. 5. Economic background of the aged santals. 6. Living condition of the aged santals. 7. Health condition of the aged santals. 8. Status, role and family relationship of the aged santals. 9. Role of government for the benefit of the aged with reference to the santal tribe. Summary and conclusion. Case studies. Reference. II. Elderly widows: an ignored silent majority: a study in a CMC Ward of Calcutta: 1. Introduction. 2. Method of study. 3. Socio demography. 4. Economic condition. 5. Family life. 6. Health status and care. 7. Network and contact. 8. Family relationship. Summary and conclusion. Case studies. Reference. "This book reveals the so far unknown conditions of elderly women residing in rural and urban areas. The elderly santal women residing in a village in Burdwan District of West Bengal and elderly widows residing in the CMC ward 87 (Kalighat) of Kolkata are subjects of study. Several parametres such as socio-demography, economic condition, family life, health care and living condition, network and contact are taken into consideration. The study shows that change in the traditional set up is the main cause for the misery of the elderly women in both the areas. Suitable recommendations are made for the alleviation of their misery on the basis of the research findings."No. 31777 240 pp.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. iii, 76 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. Text in English with summaries in French. This book includes papers from the session entitled Status of Prehistoric Studies in the Twenty First Century in India presented at the XV UISPP World Congress (Lisbon, 4-9 September 2006).…