Asia is by far the largest continent in the world in terms of area with population exceeding 3.5 billion and has dozens of cultures, religions, languages and ethnic groups. As a result of its highly varied political systems, Asia also spawns a wide variety of health care systems including men...
South Asia has a population of about 1.6 billion, which is characterized by significant cultural divergences between and within the states. An estimated 2,000 ethnic groups, at least six ethnic-linguistic families and several major faiths make South Asia one of the most diverse regions on earth....
Disappearing Peoples: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, Inc., 2007.Roche, Gerald (2009) Disappearing peoples? Indigenous groups and ethnic minorities in south and central Asia. In: Asian Ethnicity 10, 1:91-93....
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Drawing from the empirical study conducted in Darjeeling, this article discusses the recent demands made by different ethnic groups and their associations for recognition as scheduled tribes (STs) in India. The article explores the historical process through which identities were constituted in Darjeeling...
Asia Area total: 99,720 sq kmland: 96,920 sq kmwater: 2,800 sq kmcountry comparison to the world: 110 Area - comparative slightly smaller than Pennsylvania; slightly larger than Indiana Land boundaries total: 237 kmborder countries (1): North Korea 237 km Coastline 2,413 km Maritim...
Our extensive analysis on the Kol ethnic group shows South Asia to be a living genetics lab, where real-time tests can be performed on existing hypotheses.doi:10.1038/s41598-020-61941-zAnshika SrivastavaPrajjval Pratap SinghAudditiya Bandopadhyay...
and reducing mother-child transmissions.Migration to South Africa began in the second half of the 17th century when traders from the Dutch East India Company settled in the Cape and started using slaves from South and southeast Asia (mainly from India but also from present-day Indonesia, Banglade...
(NHL) and liver in men, and breast, uterus, ovary, colorectal and NHL in women (index cancer). Deaths in older South Asians are not always well captured, possibly due to more frequent travel to South Asia once retired, which could compromise the estimation of the survival. We therefore ...
and frequently communication between ethnic groups is difficult. Unlike most countries in South Asia, which are internally bound by a common language and demographic, cultural, and ethnic homogeneity, in India, there are 22 languages recognized byThe Constitution of India (2021). Hindi is the offic...