The Pitfalls of Caste in the Wider Spectrum of Science: A Review of Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment

Science and religion have traditionally been seen as two fundamentally polar fields. While religion has been posited as the domain of the cosmos, seemingly covering the arc of time from the creation of the universe till its ultimate demise, science has been the more stoic cousin, demanding a rigorous analysis of events based on a combination of empirical observations and theoretical analysis. Modern-day science can be seen as the descendent of the tumultuous socio-political-economic and scientific churning in 16th century Europe during the Renaissance. It was one of the many ways in which the emerging educated class challenged the feudal order of the Church and kingdoms and the conservative dogma they had propagated as religion. [...]  

The Transformational Capability of Tourism to Promote Women\u27s Empowerment through Entrepreneurship

The tourist industry has a position of utmost significance within the economic context. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the many dimensions of tourism as a driver for active participation among a wide range of stakeholders in the field of tourist firms. This phenomenon possesses an inherent capacity to instigate and facilitate such engagement, both directly and indirectly. This research aims to illuminate the transformational capacity of tourism in promoting cooperation and involvement among stakeholders by analyzing the many aspects of this phenomenon. The major objective of this study is to emphasize the significant significance of promoting women\u27s empowerment in the field of travel and tourism through entrepreneurial activity. This study utilizes the conceptual paradigm referred to as the \u27Doors, Locks and the Key\u27 to conduct a critical analysis and evaluation of the positive impacts of tourism in the Indian subcontinent. This study aims to explore the various methodologies, establishment processes, and progression strategies employed for women\u27s empowerment in the tourism sector. Additionally, it seeks to analyze the implications of these efforts on the overall advancement of society. This present discourse aims to elucidate a proposed methodology for fostering entrepreneurial development in both rural and urban areas, with a specific focus on the field of tourism ventures. The central focus of the proposed methodology centers around the implementation of a carefully crafted growth strategy, customized to cater to the distinct requirements and ambitions of the aforementioned individuals residing in the designated area. This paper offers a series of recommendations pertaining to the prospective growth of entrepreneurial endeavors within the field of tourism and travel

Report on the high level committee on socio-economic, health and educational status of tribal communities of India

"Prime Minister’s Office constituted a High Level Committee (HLC) in August 2014, consisting of the following members: Prof. Virginius Xaxa as Chairperson, Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Dr. Joseph Bara, Dr. K.K. Misra, Dr. Abhay Bang, Smt. Sunila Basant, and Dr. Hrusikesh Panda, Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, as Member-Secretary. The Committee was mandated to examine the socio-economic, educational and health status of tribal communities and recommend appropriate interventional measures to improve the same. The Committee formulated thematic sections based on various socio-economic parameters mentioned in theTerms of Reference and each theme was taken up by members based on their areas of expertise.

PENAMBATAN MOLEKUL GLUTATION FAUNA LAUT TERHADAP RESEPTOR DARI BEBERAPA PENYAKIT VIRUS

Glutathion is a tripeptides produced by almost all living creatures, including marine fauna such as rotifers and shrimps. Judging from the important molecular role of glutathion in living cell,  the ability of glutathion as antiviral compound, has been assed by application of the AutodockTools to predict the ability of glutathion as ligand to bind receptors of several viral diseases such as  covid-19, malaria, and hepatitis B. Docking results of glutathion toward target receptor were shown by the parameter, Gibbs energy value, and supported by other data such as the amount of hidrogen bond, amino acid residues, and bond distance. Evidently, the glutathion could bind to  each receptor of covid-19, malaria and hepatitis B, with values of  Gibbs energy (∆G), -7,9, 7,1 and -7,1 kcal/mol, respectively. This proves that glutathion has ability to bind covid-19 receptor, even stronger than its ability to bind receptors of other viral diseases, and to the remdesevir. Between glutathion and covid-19 receptor, there were 11 hidrogen bonds, with distance ranged from 2,76 to 3,25 Å. These were stronger than those between glutathion and receptors of malaria and hepatitis B, only  8 and 4 Å hidrogen bonds, respectively.  To develop glutathion as antiviral drug, it is necessary to carry out in vitro and in vivo analyses, prior to clinical test. Therefore, it requires to explore the marine fauna species that produce glutathion and their cultivation.Keywords: molecular docking, glutathion, marine fauna, autodock vina, viral diseases, binding affinit

Developing Terra Nullius: colonialism, nationalism, and indigeneity in the Andaman Islands

This article explores in detail the legal structures and discursive framings informing the governance of one particular ‘backward’ region of India, the Andaman Islands. It traces the shifting patterns of occupation and development of the Islands in the colonial and post colonial periods, with a special focus on the changes wrought by independence in 1947 and the eventual history of planned development. It demonstrates how intersecting discourses of indigenous savagery/primitivism and the geographical emptiness was repeatedly mobilised in colonial era surveys and post-colonial policy documents. Post colonial visions of developing the Andaman Islands ushered in a settler-colonial governmentality, infused with genocidal fantasies of the ‘dying savage’. Laws professing to protect aboriginal Jarawas actually worked to unilaterally extend Indian sovereignty over the lands and bodies of a community clearly hostile to such incorporation. It questions the current exclusion of India from the global geographies of settler-colonialism and argues that the violent and continuing history of indigenous marginalisation in the Andaman Islands represents a de facto operation of a logic of terra nullius

A systematic review of population health interventions and Scheduled Tribes in India

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Despite India's recent economic growth, health and human development indicators of Scheduled Tribes (ST) or <it>Adivasi </it>(India's indigenous populations) lag behind national averages. The aim of this review was to identify the public health interventions or components of these interventions that are effective in reducing morbidity or mortality rates and reducing risks of ill health among ST populations in India, in order to inform policy and to identify important research gaps.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We systematically searched and assessed peer-reviewed literature on evaluations or intervention studies of a population health intervention undertaken with an ST population or in a tribal area, with a population health outcome(s), and involving primary data collection.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The evidence compiled in this review revealed three issues that promote effective public health interventions with STs: (1) to develop and implement interventions that are low-cost, give rapid results and can be easily administered, (2): a multi-pronged approach, and (3): involve ST populations in the intervention.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>While there is a growing body of knowledge on the health needs of STs, there is a paucity of data on how we can address these needs. We provide suggestions on how to undertake future population health intervention research with ST populations and offer priority research avenues that will help to address our knowledge gap in this area.</p

Making subaltern shikaris: histories of the hunted in colonial central India

Academic histories of hunting or shikar in India have almost entirely focused on the sports hunting of British colonists and Indian royalty. This article attempts to balance this elite bias by focusing on the meaning of shikar in the construction of the Gond ‘tribal’ identity in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century colonial central India. Coining the term ‘subaltern shikaris’ to refer to the class of poor, rural hunters, typically ignored in this historiography, the article explores how the British managed to use hunting as a means of state penetration into central India’s forest interior, where they came to regard their Gond forest-dwelling subjects as essentially and eternally primitive hunting tribes. Subaltern shikaris were employed by elite sportsmen and were also paid to hunt in the colonial regime’s vermin eradication programme, which targeted tigers, wolves, bears and other species identified by the state as ‘dangerous beasts’. When offered economic incentives, forest dwellers usually willingly participated in new modes of hunting, even as impact on wildlife rapidly accelerated and became unsustainable. Yet as non-indigenous approaches to nature became normative, there was sometimes also resistance from Gond communities. As overkill accelerated, this led to exclusion of local peoples from natural resources, to their increasing incorporation into dominant political and economic systems, and to the eventual collapse of hunting as a livelihood. All of this raises the question: To what extent were subaltern subjects, like wildlife, ‘the hunted’ in colonial India

A Forgotten Adivasi Landscape: Museums and Memory in western India

This article focuses on processes of remembering, forgetting and re-remembering. It examines a fundamental tension between the project of retrieving an adivasi past, initiated by an adivasi museum in rural western India, and the social and material landscape surrounding it, characterised instead by fragmentation and separation from the identity of adivasi. The article reflects on a collaborative research project between the researcher, young adivasi curators and inhabitants of the area adjoining the museum. It shows how, while curators engaged in a project of recuperation, at the same time, they were distancing themselves from their traditional identity by joining reform movements and new religious sects. Processes of memory and forgetting, however, also co-existed. People held multiple identities and the process of retrieving the past also called for transformation and reform. The article is a timely contribution to debates about adivasi identity, social transformation and religious reform. It also offers a reflection on the new role of indigenous museums and their potential to address a ‘crisis of postcolonial memory’ (Werbner 1998). Finally, it contributes to discussions of methodology with a focus on the collaborative process of collecting and its role in eliciting or preventing certain kinds of memories

Report on the high level committee on socio-economic, health and educational status of tribal communities of India

"Prime Minister’s Office constituted a High Level Committee (HLC) in August 2014, consisting of the following members: Prof. Virginius Xaxa as Chairperson, Dr. Usha Ramanathan, Dr. Joseph Bara, Dr. K.K. Misra, Dr. Abhay Bang, Smt. Sunila Basant, and Dr. Hrusikesh Panda, Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, as Member-Secretary. The Committee was mandated to examine the socio-economic, educational and health status of tribal communities and recommend appropriate interventional measures to improve the same. The Committee formulated thematic sections based on various socio-economic parameters mentioned in theTerms of Reference and each theme was taken up by members based on their areas of expertise.