The asuras/rākṣasas have been identified with native tribal peoples of South India and Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese Buddhists and even the aboriginal population of Australia (Goldman, 1986: 49). Pollock (1991) adds cannibals, primitive cave-dwellers, animal-like shamans, tribal masked dancers, I...
It provides solid evidence to support, monitor and evaluate ongoing national programmes and opens new avenues for finding unmet needs in the population. Four different questionnaire types—the Household, Woman’s, Man’s, and Biomarker—were used to gather the data, and computer-assisted personal ...
Social media interactions invariably include trolling, where disruptive or annoying comments are made online, and gender trolling is one aspect of trolling. Gender trolling in India has turned ugly, with mischievous and offensive tweets transforming into threats. However, far too little research has ex...
Wilkinson RG, Pickett KE (2006) Income inequality and population health: a review and explanation of the evidence. Soc Sci Med 62(7):1768–1784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.08.036 Article PubMed Google Scholar Zacharias A, Vakulabharanam V (2011) Caste stratification and wea...
“Economic growth in India as elsewhere arises not because of what politicians and bureaucrats do in capital cities, but because of spontaneous technological progress, improved productivity and learning-by-doing on part of the general population. Technological progress is a very general notion, and ap...
Candidates will have to check their post-wise eligibility and apply for the posts to join the Indian Army.Q.4: What should I do to get selected for the Indian Army?Ans: Aspirants will first have to know about the different post-wise entry schemes to join the Indian Army. As per the ...
Once the state was divided into SCRs, the 10 districts were allocated across the SCRs proportional to population so that larger SCRs had more sampled districts. The stratification ensured that the study was representative across all major SCRs in the country. Once the number of districts was ...
In fact, real growth arises not because of what politicians and bureaucrats do but because of spontaneous technological progress, improved productivity and learning-by-doing of the general population ~ mostly despite not because of an exploitative parasitic State. What has been mismeasured as high ...
The unrelated control population represents (1) different geographical regions (North, South, East); (2) different social hierarchies (Upper Caste, Lower Caste and Tribe) and (3) Different linguistic groups (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian speakers). 87 samples were from south Indian region from the ...
of the Sri Lankan populations using net genetic distances (dA), which are defined as dA=dXY – (dX+dY)/2, where dXY is the mean pairwise difference between individuals from population X and Y, and dX (dY) is the mean pairwise difference between individuals within population X (or Y)....