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140101
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This article explores the changing use and management of domestic space and socio-spatial relationships constructed in a Pakistani rural setting. It offers a case study which highlights the central position of domestic space as a residential and social unit in rural Pakistan. It discusses how domestic space is appropriated in multiple ways into a social unit through social practice. Given that changes in the physical structure of any place lead to negotiation of social relationships, it is shown how recent modifications in design and structure of houses are indicative of, and to some extent facilitate, social change in rural Pakistan.
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140100
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This article offers a comparative study of the multiplicity of folklore scholarship in Karnataka during the colonial period, revealing multiple layers of knowledge, experience and interculturality. It concentrates mainly on viewing three specific collections of Indian folklore by different agents, both colonialists and locals. The overarching aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of various research methodologies and their influence. This article also seeks to address some subsidiary questions regarding the prominence given to oral literature during the second half of the 19th century. It examines what relations, specifically in the eyes of the coloniser and the colonised, it shared with the classical/ancient works of literature of India and seeks to assess the nature of folklore knowledge produced in colonial Karnataka.
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140097
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This article provides a comprehensive overview of the global meat sector and examines significant food processing sub-sectors that are a major contributor to the global economy. Structural changes in global meat production, consumption and trade are analysed using recent Food and Agriculture Organisation statistical databases, in terms of geographic concentration or relocation of production or markets and temporal changes across major geographical regions. The findings indicate significant recent shifts in production, consumption and trade of different kinds of meat. While developing markets still focus on red meat, the developed markets are moving faster towards white meat due to increasing health and environmental concerns among consumers in recent years. The implications of such trends for South Asia are examined, too, and call for further research.
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140099
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932) are two stalwarts of twentieth century Bengali literature. Born and raised in very different socio-cultural and religious environments, both lacked formal education, yet both went on to become ardent champions of education. Despite their different religious identities, both writers stepped out of their cultural and gendered borders to embrace the ‘other’ in a spirit of fellowship and unity, against a backdrop of turbulent Hindu–Muslim relationships and recurrent communal riots, throughout most of their adult lives. The present article investigates this cross-cultural, dialogic-inclusive vision of Hindu–Muslim unity as reflected in the literary works of these two writers. It seeks to explain why and how they espoused such a bold vision, going against the grain of religious feuds that characterised the history of the period. The current relevance of such cross-cultural navigation is evident.
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140098
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The current engagement of the government of India with various insurgent groups in Manipur’s hill areas makes it imperative to revisit certain problems related to local ethnicity construction and, more importantly, to specifically address burning issues of overlapping territorial demands. The article argues that such overlapping territorial claims, which have their roots in colonial processes of ethnicisation, need to be tackled as a matter of urgency. Such competing claims arose only after colonially constructed categories of local people who shared local living spaces began to claim exclusive ownership of the entire territory of certain administrative units. Challenging the presence of other groups by settlerising these respective ‘others’ has resulted in recent attempts at ethnic cleansing, which violates basic principles of India’s ‘unity in diversity’. Since local land ownership was traditionally neither attached to a tribe or ethnic group, but rather to the entire village community, a return to that pattern seems advisable. Thus, it is argued, shifting from a ‘tribe–district’ approach to ‘village community/village land’ approaches in dealing with the impasse of overlapping territorial claims offers scope for a sustainable reconciliation.
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140102
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Using a multivariate regression analysis, this article examines linkages in major parties’ performance that contested legislative assembly and Parliamentary elections in India held within the subsequent 18 months over the period 1980–2009. The results are analysed according to a range of variables including party identity, incumbency and geographical region. The study’s finding that for a number of parties there is a strong and statistically significant linkage corroborates earlier studies and suggests that the allocation of resources by major parties to Legislative Assembly campaigns may be an effective strategy for maximising the party’s share of votes in subsequent Parliamentary elections.
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