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Folk Illness and Ethnomedicine
Highlight the role and importance of ethnomedicine in overcoming disease and pain. The vital role of traditional healers in a rural set up like the village priest, the herbalist and the spiritist has been stressed. Contains specific chapters on The History of Medicine; Medical Practitioners and Social Anthropology; The Dhimars: Socio-cultural Environment; and the Medical set up. Reviews ... will certainly provoke practitioners' thought, as to what and how he should act in future. Dr. A. Kathiresan, Review Projector (India), Vol. 8, No. 7-9. ... highlights the role and importance of ethnomedicine in overcoming disease and pain. ... useful for those associated with rural development in the sphere of health and planners, in determining and devising appropriate schemes for healthcare for the rural people. Dr. (Mrs) Madhu Nagla, Department of Sociology, MD University, Rohtak, Indian Book Chronicle, April 1993.
Social Inequality and Health Care
India has committed itself to the pursuit of achieving the goal of Health For All by AD 2000 in accordance with the Alma-Ata declaration, 1978. There has been ample evidence to demonstrate that for the success of any health programme medical intervention alone will not bring about the desired results. Its success or failure depends, to a large extent, upon the interplay of several non-medical factors such as social, cultural, political, economic, and psychological. The role of these key factors in the domain of health care activities has been recently recognised by social scientists all over the world. It present a pioneering attempt in India to understand the relationship of social stratification and health care in a rural community from a sociological perspective.
The Sedentrize Lohar Gadiyas of Malthon
Focues sensitively sedentrized life and changing scenario of socio-demographic and health practices profile including maternal and child health practices, environmental sanitation, sanitary habits and their personal hygiene etc. It contains fifteen chapters, in which twelve different aspects of sendentrized or semi-nomadic life have been covered. In view of its multi-disciplinary nature would be of immense help and use to general readers, academicians, socio-cultural anthropologists, medical anthropologists and researchers.
Tribal Perspectives in India
The present anthology which covers eighteen well-explored articles on tribal perspectives in India, assesses critically the tribal art, culture and literature. It also endeavours to bring into surface issues and challenges faced by Indian tribes in reference to their life and hardships, policies adopted by government for their development and problems in their implementation. The book as a whole tries to meet all crucial aspects of Indian tribes. Hopefully the book would serve to larger section of humanity laying bare many hidden facts related to tribal life and culture.
Education and Polity in Nepal
The educational process appears to be a dialectical process being the centre of generation of new knowledge, ideas and innovations and, therefore, it has a tendency to reflect upon political processes. Intellectuals produced within its corridors generally raise the voice of dissent, not only against the establishment, but sometimes against the existing social structure itself. Thus the relationship between education and polity is not unidimensional but a two-way traffic. Unveil the patterns of interaction between the polity and education, the interplay between education and social stratification and the interaction between the education and the process of modernization. Nepal, the magnificent, snow-clad and ancient Himalayan kingdom, is the focus of the work. Review ``On the whole, the book provides a very good analytical and empirical insight into the development of higher education in Nepal, in the light of the socio-political factors. This book can be useful for a good reading for all those who are interested in the area of higher education''. Dr. Sneha Joshi, Review Projector, Vol. VIII, Nos. 10–12.
Women's Issues
Deals with different aspects of Women's issues, viz. women in family and Society, access of girls and women to education, impact of science and technology on women, women and politics, image and role of women in Hindi drama and theatre, women's development role of media, women and work and her identity, role of voluntary organisations on women's development, national women's information centre and the programmes of Government of India for women's development. Since the development and education of women has become a growing concern of the present day society and Government, it is in the fitness of things that women themselves should present their own assessment of the current status of women and point out the maladies.
Resource Development in Tribal India
It is a treatise of the consequential problems of interactions between population, resources and development. Resources play such a vital role in our economy that the evaluation of territorial distribution of resource-complexes and their potentialities for a balanced and integrated development cannot be disassociated from the wider field of planning for regional development. But the degree of exploitation of development potentials depends heavily upon human, socio-political and economic-technological factors; and variation in these attributes of man causes variation in resource evaluation and their utilization. In the present politico-economic structure those people who are conscious to their rights and those areas which are dominated by such people get benefits of developmental efforts. The tribal people and areas dominated by them could not exert decisive influence on decision-making of resource utilization and development planning. Consequently, all transportable resources are exported out of such regions.
District Planning
Annotation: In the present book the author has analytically examined the behaviour of the electorate and the factors influencing them before and after independence according to the electoral system, the situation of the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.
Welfare Services in the Netherlands and United Kingdom
In the years following World War II, the concept of State Welfare did seem to be the golden mean between Marxian revolution and laissez faire evolution in the human pursuit of social justice. Western democratic states that upheld the primacy of the individual and his liberty over that of the 'State' operationalized State responsibility for welfare on the basis of social policies compatible with their socio-political and economic systems. This resulted in the coming into existence of a large number of services rendered by the State to its citizens touching all aspects of their lives, cutting through informal, intermediary institutions, and developing a direct link with it. The focus of this s...
