workers. Today‚ the Naxalism have proliferated over a vast beltway stretching from the forests of Bengal in the North to Kerala in the South. The Naxalites claim to represent the most oppressed people in India‚ like the landless labourers‚ dalits‚ adivasis‚ those who are oftten left untouched by India’s development and bypassed by the electoral process. The Area under the control of Naxal groups is Known as ‘Red Corridor‘ which is about 92‚000 Sq. Km. spread in states like orissa‚ WB‚ Bihar‚ Chattisgarh
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Over the years the field of family and child welfare in India has changed considerably in terms of its perspectives‚ complexity of its scope and the variety of professional expertise needed. The child population in India comprises of 42% of India’s population which at 440 million is the world’s largest child population. Despite several programmes on health‚ education and for child protection‚ the strengthened Juvenile Justice Act and other laws‚ the child indicators in India continue to be of immense
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family in the Bankura district of the modern state of West Bengal in India. In that sense‚ he was a Bengali‚ not an Adivasi‚ as many people usually think. The surname Baij derived from Boidda and Boijo consequently. His family surname was Poramanik and was abandoned by him in the early 1925. However‚ many of his artistic creations have been inspired by the lifestyles of rural dalit or Adivasi (Santhal) communities living in and around his place of work Santiniketan.While in his mid-teens Ramkinkar used
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Indian culture-a myth or a reality? -Rukmi Sarmah India’s one billion people have descended from a variety of races. The oldest ones are the Negroid aboriginals called the Adivasis. Then came the Dravidians‚ the Aryans‚ the Mongols‚ the Semites and innumerable inter-mixtures of one with the other. A blend of migration and movement across ancient boundaries‚ travel and colonialism gave India the culture it is said to have today. According to Amartya Sen‚ the India born Nobel Laureate in Economics
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CHAPTER 14 INDIA’S PENINSULAR PLATEAU The Peninsular Plateau is a vast area stretching over much of India. It consists of undulating land‚ which is somewhat higher than the coastal plains to the east and west or the flat Northern Plain of the Ganga and the Satluj. Look at a 3-dimensional plastic relief map of India to get a better idea of the Peninsular Plateau. The large part of the plateau lying to the south of the Narmada River is called the Deccan Plateau. The part to the north of the
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the culture intact of which we are proud. The survival and revival of patriotism in India during British regime is just yesterday’s history. This period gave India largest number of conscientious martyrs and patriots. Right from the martyrdom of Adivasi patriot Tilka Manjhi in Bihar in 1747 the stream flew to Karnataka where Rani Chenamma of Kittur and her five associates Rayanna‚ Jagvir‚
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In India‚ over 18 States use the finger test as the means to test whether a girl has been raped or not. It is on this test that the doctors testify their reports and the court of Law passes judgement. This test has come under fire for being outdated and assaulting a woman’s character much after she has been raped. It casts a doubt on moral grounds on the woman and has been responsible for wrong/biased judgements by defense counsels. I was appalled when I read the following excerpt in a research
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people of land of every country‚ particularly to the native or indigenous dweller who need an upliftment from various kinds of exploitation. It considers the marginalized people in the society. Bringing to the Indian situation‚ we can term it as Adivasi. 1.2. Justice: The 21st Century Dictionary defines Justice as “the quality of being just; just treatment; fairness”. It is a concept of moral rightness which is based on ethics‚ rationality‚ law‚ natural law‚ religion or equity. It is also the
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the Jharkhand Party grew politically stronger but the commissions examining the demands for a separate Jharkhand State rejected it one after another. In August 1947 the Thakkar Commission rejected it saying that it would not be beneficial for the Adivasis. In 1948 Dar Commission also examined the demand for a separate Jharkhand state but rejected it on linguistic grounds. Despite these reports of these commissions going negative in nature‚ Jharkhand Party never lost sight of its ultimate target: a
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The Sardar Sarovar Dam Presented By: Group-1 The Narmada Dam in India http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0209/feature1/ water pressure Why do countries build Dams? • It’s a means by which many of the developed countries of the world build their economic strength • Improving the circumstances of a region be it health‚ crops‚ infrastructure or industries - leads to greater productivity‚ more markets‚ sturdier populations‚ more investment‚ and so on • However‚ there is a cost…
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