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Williams, Sharon R. "Menstrual Cycle Characteristics and Predictability of Ovulation of Bhutia Women in Sikkim, India." Journal of PHYSIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 25, no. 1 (2006): 85–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2114/jpa2.25.85.

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Singh, Kirti, and Hafizur Rahman. "Frequency and management of gestational diabetes mellitus according to the new diabetes in pregnancy study group of India guidelines among Sikkimese women attending tertiary teaching hospital of East Sikkim." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 9, no. 3 (February 27, 2020): 1181. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20200896.

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Background: The screening of GDM is important as various pregnancy related complications are associated to it. With early screening and diagnosis, the complications associated with GDM can be reduced. Studies have shown various ethnic groups are at increasing risk of developing GDM with prevalence differing in different ethnicity. No data is available about frequency of GDM in different ethnic women of Sikkim. This study was performed to determine the frequency of GDM and its variation according to different demographic profiles of Sikkimese women.Methods: Pregnant women between 16-34 weeks of gestation, attending antenatal OPD were included for this study. All the patients were subjected to DIPSI recommended 75 gm oral glucose tolerance test. Diagnosis of impaired glucose tolerance was made when plasma glucose of ≥120-140 mg/dl and diagnosis of GDM was made when the plasma glucose of >140 mg/dl as per DIPSI guidelines.Results: A total of 202 consenting pregnant women during 16-34 weeks of pregnancy were evaluated with DIPSI recommended 75 g oral glucose tolerance test. Overall frequency of GDM was 11.9% among the Sikkimese women while 10.9% had impaired results in OGTT.Conclusions: Frequency of GDM was high (12%) in pregnant women attending tertiary hospital of Sikkim. This implies Sikkimese women should be universally screened for GDM. There was also high occurrence of GDM among Lepcha and Bhutia women which need further study to find out the contributing factors in these women.

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Ni Kadek Ayu Kristini Putri, Ni Made Sukrawati, Desak Nyoman Seniwati, I Gusti Ayu Ngurah, and Ni Ketut Sukiani. "The Image of Hindu Women in Conducting Their Swadharma." Vidyottama Sanatana: International Journal of Hindu Science and Religious Studies 6, no. 2 (October 31, 2022): 216–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.25078/vidyottama.v6i2.1261.

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Women are creatures that are identical with the symbols of the world, as a balancer for the entire universe, women is discussed from era to era, from the Krtayuga era to the present, much debated era, the Kaliyuga era. Women are still discussed especially with regard to their inner and outer forms. To produce valid and reliable data, this research uses qualitative research methods. To produce logical data, this article performs several stages of data sorting as follows: 1). Data reduction, 2). Data display, 3). Data verification and, 4). Data interpretation from the articles. Related references really support the validity of a scientific work, therefore library techniques are also used through literature exploration on Google Scholar. The unique story of a creature named a woman is still a mystery by the analogy of men. The behavior of women from the incarnation of God who is born from a mother conceives that the woman is indeed a balancer both from bhuana agung and bhuana alit, the role and nature of a woman is very much different from that of men, starting from giving birth to regeneration - men do not can do this - but with the absence of men, women will also not be able to give birth to a baby. Hindu women who play a lot of roles in all their practices and customs, exhaust their minds and energy to live this attachment. Not to mention the modern era that is entangled in the economy and fashion in the social media era. Can Hindu women manage their lives for things like that? To be a career woman or traditional woman are not an easy thing to do, the consequences in living it are always there and the risk in every decision will give birth to pros and cons, and Hindu women, who are discussed in this article, are hoped to persist in every era while maintaining a positive image for Hindu women in carrying out their swadharma (obligation). Keywords: Image of Hindu Women, In Conducting Their Swadharma

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Irnawati, Irnawati. "Demokrasi di Pakistan Menurut Benazir Bhutto." al-Daulah: Jurnal Hukum dan Perundangan Islam 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2015): 152–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/ad.2015.5.1.152-170.

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Abstract: This article discusses about democracy in Pakistan by Benazir Bhutto. The realization of democracy in Pakistan, according to Benazir Bhutto, is to reach all the democratic elements of the Pakistani nations, the business communities, to release all of the political prisoners, to make the print and electronic media free, to open and uncensored, to remove the ban on sororities and labor, to separate the judicial functions of the executive, and to provide the basis for a fair electoral process. The other leaderships of women in Pakistan’s democracy by Benazir Bhutto, are appointing some women to sit in the cabinet and set up the Ministry of Women Development, creating the program of study in the universities for women, founding the Women Development Bank to provide credit only for the women entrepreneurs, creating institutions to train women in family planning, nutrition counseling, child care, and birth control. Democracy in Pakistan is a liberal democracy which is characterized by a moderate Islam, by recruiting people who are competent to sit in the government, eliminating and restricting military power, reactivating the role of civil society in accordance with the government’s program.Keywords: Democracy, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.

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Ghani, Fauzia, and Muhammad Ali. "An Analysis Of Women Leadership: Telescoping Benazir Bhutto And Indira Gandhi In South Asia." Pakistan Journal of Applied Social Sciences 2, no. 1 (March 8, 2015): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjass.v2i1.282.

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Societies are made or marred by leaders. The rise and fall of dynasties are also due to the role played by the leaders. It is an acknowledged fact that leaders are the central actors of most of the activities of the world. Their dynamic role can determine the fate of the society in the context of politicoeconomic changes in positive manners. It is generally fixed impression that qualified leaders are rare and when it comes to woman leadership the fact becomes more accurate as women leadership is not experienced by many states. No matter, women have been playing a decisive role in all walks of life; however, it is evident that their participation in political matters and affairs as a leader is limited. When it comes to the case of South Asian politics, the women leadership is marginalized either due to their own training or because of prevailing political norms where male bias is unavoidable. This paper argues that in South Asian States particularly India and Pakistan, women leadership is not a regular feature of their politics rather they succeeded their father’s i.e. Benazir Bhutto and Indira Gandhi. Furthermore, this paper aimed at to give an insight to leadership qualities of both South Asian women leaders in connection with their polities .To narrow down their role, some variables have been chosen (Economic development, reorientation of political parties and women empowerment and participation).

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SHARMA, PAWAN KUMAR. "Socio-economic Development of Women in Rural Bhutan." Productivity 61, no. 2 (December 10, 2020): 180–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.32381/prod.2020.61.02.6.

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SHARMA, PAWAN KUMAR. "Socio-economic Development of Women in Rural Bhutan." Productivity 61, no. 2 (December 10, 2020): 180–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.32381/prod.2020.61.02.6.

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Rabgay, Tenzin, Kinley Yangdon, Yogesh Brahmankar, and Madhura Bedarkar. "Explaining Women Entrepreneurship in Bhutan: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business 1, no. 1 (2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijesb.2022.10038747.

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Weiss, Anita M. "Benazir Bhutto and the Future of Women in Pakistan." Asian Survey 30, no. 5 (May 1, 1990): 433–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2644837.

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Weiss, Anita M. "Benazir Bhutto and the Future of Women in Pakistan." Asian Survey 30, no. 5 (May 1990): 433–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.1990.30.5.01p0380h.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Bhutia women"

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Swami, Swati. "Structural analysis of the bhutia society and position of bhutia women in Sikkim." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2006. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/163.

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Williams, Sharon R. "Energy balance, health and fecundity among Bhutia women of Gangtok, Sikkim, India." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1061295651.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xvii, 200 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Douglas E. Crews, Dept. of Anthropology. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 175-186).

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Zangmo, Tashi. "Women's Contribution to Gross National Happiness: A Critical Analysis of the Role of Nuns and Nunneries in Education and Sustainable Development in Bhutan." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3359167/.

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Tshering, Sonam. "Barriers on the emergence of women as leaders in Bhutan." Thesis, Tshering, Sonam (2015) Barriers on the emergence of women as leaders in Bhutan. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/27997/.

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Women leadership is not heard or seen much, because we view the picture of leadership through patriarchal lenses. From the history of Bhutan, it can be perceived that the concept of a woman as a leader was unfamiliar until recent years. Rulers and top executives of the country were all male. However, in recent years the nation witnessed the emergence of the few women leaders. The paper examines current patterns of leadership in Bhutan in few key areas and organizations. The obstacles and challenges confronted by Bhutanese women are analyzed and found that there are social, political, cultural and religious barriers that impede women’s career advancement. The career expansion and acquiring leadership position of women is till a problem in Bhutan. The paper also uses case study of the first two national parliamentary elections of Bhutan to demonstrate the kind of women participation and range of challenges that hinders their participation.

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Chuki, Sonam. "Women in politics in democratic transition: The case of Bhutan." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/85085/1/Sonam_Chuki_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis is a study about women's participation in Bhutan's new democracy and exposes the patriarchy embedded in Bhutanese society which is reinforced through cultural practices and the legal framework. It reveals the public/private dichotomy, the low educational attainment of girls and the gendered division of labour which derails women's public life. It discloses a masculine driven party politics and the challenges of being a woman in the world of men. Nonetheless, the first trailblazing women parliamentarians demonstrated a principled, feminine, political leadership in a masculine environment. Semi-structured interviews, document review and participant observation methods were used to collect data.

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Phuntsho, Sonam Sirinan Kittisuksathit. "Socio-economic determinants of modern contraceptive use among married women of reproductive age in Bhutan /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd393/4838757.pdf.

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Sithey, Gyambo Pattanee Winichagoon. "Accessibility and compliance to iron folic supplementation among the pregnant women in two sub districts of Bhutan /." Abstract, 2004. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2547/cd372/4336004.pdf.

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Choden, Phuntsho. "Help-seeking behaviours of Bhutanesse women subjected to intimate partner violence (IPV)." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133983/1/Phuntsho%20Choden%20Thesis_Redacted.pdf.

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This research explored help-seeking behaviours associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) among women in Bhutan. Results showed that increased awareness and positive supportive responses facilitated changes in women's cognitive and behavioural response to IPV. This study led to development of a public health intervention addressing the important role of knowledge and support sources in promoting women's help-seeking behaviours.

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Zangmo, Dechen Aphichat Chamratrithirong. "The factors affecting the practice of delivery among the pregnant women who received antenatal care during their pregnancy in Bhutan /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd392/4838754.pdf.

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Javeri, Sabyn. "The creative process : a journey of self-discovery through creative writing." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37801.

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This PhD submission constitutes a novel and accompanying critical commentary. My novel Nobody Killed Her provides an alternative history of the assassination of Pakistan's only female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. The thesis questions the choices I made in order to develop the writing of this novel and the decisions I took in order for it to reach its readers. I discuss the issues of creative integrity and the role of the publisher as an enabler, and as a modern day censor. I examine the role of literary influences and publishing pressures on the multi-layered and shifting strains of the creative process and explore fiction as a powerful tool for communicating the paradoxical state of modern Pakistani women, which my novel draws upon. Accordingly, my research narrative is interspersed with personal vignettes that helped shape my writing. Reflecting upon the role of memory, history and politics, and literary influences that shape our writing, I try to interrogate the ‘flash-bulb’ moments of inspiration and argue that creative writing is actually a series of complex thought processes that shape our consciousness. I have also, during the compilation of this essay, looked critically at the role of the publisher in shaping an author’s creativity and the author’s desire for publication in influencing his or her creative choices. I have examined the role of the audience, by asking who the writer is writing for, concluding that the creative journey is more important than the destination i.e., the culmination of the writing into a published form. I conclude by contending that creative writing is above all communication, not just with the reader but also with one’s self. It is about self- expression and therefore must remain true to the self.

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Books on the topic "Bhutia women"

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Price, Sean. Benazir Bhutto. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2009.

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Benazir Bhutto. Oxford: Heinemann Library, 2010.

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Women of Buddha: Nuns in Bhutan. Århus, Denmark: Ajour, 2008.

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Wheeler, Jill C. Benazir Bhutto. Edina, MN: Abdo Pub., 2004.

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Naden, Corinne J. Benazir Bhutto. TarryTown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2010.

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Maggie, Black. A situation analysis of children & women in Bhutan, 2006. Thimphu: UNICEF, 2006.

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Mondal, S. R. A profile of the status of women in Bhutan. Raja Rammohunpur: Centre for Himalyan Studies, North Bengal University, 2004.

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Buringa, Joke. Women and health in Bhutan: Practices, beliefs, and care. Thimphu, Bhutan: SNV Bhutan, 1991.

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Zakaria, Rafiq. Women & politics in Islam: The trial of Benazir Bhutto. New York: New Horizons, 1990.

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Fund, United Nations Population, and UNICEF, eds. Bhutan multiple indicator survey, 2010. Thimphu: National Statistics Bureau, Royal Government of Bhutan, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Bhutia women"

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Chuki, Sonam. "Women in Parliament—Entering the Public Male Domain in Bhutan." In Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia, 41–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57475-2_3.

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Khamrang, Leishipem, Abhijit Datey, Sohee Kim, Thinley Dema, and Bijayata Rai. "Silent Struggle of the Informal Workers: Everyday Lived Experiences, Challenges and Negotiation of the Women Street Vendors in Thimphu City, Bhutan." In Social Morphology, Human Welfare, and Sustainability, 407–30. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96760-4_16.

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"Benazir Bhutto and Dynastic Politics: Her Father’s Daughter , Her People’s Sister." In Women as Political Leaders, 98–127. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203122907-12.

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Emmott, Bill. "Starting Something New." In Japan's Far More Female Future, 90–105. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865551.003.0005.

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Japanese organizations typically remain not just male-dominated but also organized in male ways. An attractive alternative for women is therefore to start up their own organizations, whether for-profit or non-profit. The Japan Women’s Leadership Initiative takes a group of wannabe social entrepreneurs to Boston, Massachusetts every year to give training and mentorship in how to start and grow a social enterprise. Hayashi Chiaki took her career through marketing and journalism before co-founding her own digital design business, Loftwork, with its affiliate Fabcafes. Mitarai Tamako worked for McKinsey and then the government of Bhutan before moving to the disaster-struck region of Tohoku in 2011 to start up a business with local women making very high-priced and high quality sweaters, with a model reminiscent of the Italian fashion firm Brunello Cuccinelli. Nakamura Noriko, a former TV journalist, set up a babysitting and nanny agency, Poppins, for which one of the fastest growing business lines is providing short-notice childcare for companies and government agencies.

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Sharma, Renee, Jai K. Das, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta. "Positive Strategies in Achieving Health for All Children: An Equity Framework and Its Effect on Research Design and Education." In Principles of Global Child Health: Education and Research, 43–60. American Academy of Pediatrics, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/9781610021906-part01-ch03.

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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by world leaders in 2000 aimed to address some of the most pressing global issues of our times: extreme poverty, unequal health, and inequities in development. The MDGs, a set of interrelated targets to be met by 2015, catalyzed political commitment toward improving child survival and maternal health. Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 called for a two-thirds reduction in the younger-than-5 child mortality rate and a three-quarters reduction in the maternal mortality ratio, respectively, from 1990 base figures.1 Although concerted global efforts have led to substantial reductions in maternal and child mortality over the past 25 years, MDG 4 and 5 targets have not been fully realized. Only 62 of the 195 countries with available estimates achieved the MDG 4 target, of which 24 were low-income and lower-middle–income countries.2 Only 2 regions, East Asia and the Pacific (69% reduction) and Latin America and the Caribbean (67% reduction), met the target at a regional level.2 For MDG 5, of the 95 countries that had a maternal mortality ratio of more than 100 in 1990, only 9 achieved the target for reduction in maternal mortality: Bhutan, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Iran, Laos, Maldives, Mongolia, Rwanda, and Timor-Leste.3 As we celebrate the fact that the global younger-than-5 mortality rate and maternal mortality ratio have fallen by 53% and 43.9%, respectively, since 1990, we also face the sobering reality that high numbers of women and children are still dying every year, largely due to conditions that could have been prevented or treated if existing cost-effective interventions were universally available.2–4 The burden of mortality also remains unevenly distributed, with the largest numbers and highest rates of maternal and younger-than-5 deaths concentrated in countries of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, especially in lower-income countries and among fragile states, especially those with ongoing conflict.2,3,5 2015 marked the end of the MDG era and the beginning of a new global framework, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This new framework presents an opportunity to leverage the momentum built over recent decades to tackle global inequities in maternal and child health. Of these SDGs, goal 3 also calls for an end to preventable deaths of newborns and children younger than 5 years, as well as a reduction in maternal mortality to less than 70 per 100,000 live births, by 2030.6 Achieving this target would require overcoming barriers and inequities in access to quality health services and, thus, implementing strategies to reach all mothers and children, including those who are most vulnerable, remote, and at risk. In this chapter, we discuss the current burden of younger-than-5 and maternal mortality, barriers contributing to health inequities, and, finally, evidence-based strategies to bridge these gaps.

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DeNapoli, Antoinette. "In Search of the Sadhu’s Stone: Metals and Gems as Theraputic Technologies of Transformation in Vernacular Aesceticism in North India." In Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy: Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Traditions, 143–73. Equinox Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/equinox.29656.

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“In the middle of these mountains is our immortality,” said Shabari Bai, a female Hindu renouncer (sadhu) from a Bhil (tribal) community in North India. Located in Chirva village (Udaipur district), Rajasthan, Shabari Bai’s ashram is nestled in the Aravalli Mountains, one of the oldest mountain chains in South Asia. She continued, “The earth [bhumi] is the most precious life [jiv] on the planet. She is alive just as we are alive. She bears the pain of the world and has all the knowledge [jnan] that will heal our suffering and keep us from destroying ourselves.” Shabari Bai’s incisive statement calls attention to the earth and, more specifically, to landforms such as mountains, as the seat of energy, power, and salvific knowledge. More significantly, Shabari Bai suggests that mountains possess a form of consciousness (jiv) and, thus, represent a “precious” natural resource—or life—precisely because they contain invaluable substances such as metals, minerals, and gems that promote the health and healing of all life on the planet, including the planet itself. Like Shabari Bai, sadhus in the North Indian state of Rajasthan, in which I conducted extensive field research with Hindu sadhus from the Shaiva (Dashanami and Nath) and Vaishnava (Ramananda/Tyagi) renouncer traditions, associate naturally occurring substances like metals, minerals, and gems with power and immortality and use them in their everyday ritual/healing practices. In my experience, preferring naturopathic—or, in Indian terms, Ayurvedic—methods over allopathic methods, sadhus, men and women, commonly wear stones, gems, and metals on their bodies as an efficacious means to heal, cure, and prevent ailments from poor digestion to anaemia. To take an example, according to many of the sadhus I knew, wearing copper on the big toe aids digestion. In another context, following an almost fatal dog attack and only after allopathic methods failed, Kailash Das, a Ramanandi (Tyagi) sadhu, started to wear thick silver rings on each of her toes. “It keeps the veins open and causes the blood to move in my feet. Since I’ve been wearing these [rings], I suffer no pain in my feet at all.” Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rajasthan, this essay describes and analyzes sadhus’ knowledge and use of metals, minerals, and gems in order to shed light on a level of vernacular practice and experience that has been underrepresented in the scholarship on sannyas in South Asia. Special attention is paid to the sadhus’ gendered representations of metals, minerals, and gems and the ways that their practices shape and reconfigure the more standard definitional parameters for what sannyas is all about in contemporary India. The essay is divided into two parts. Part 1 analyzes what I have characterized as the sadhus’ “rhetoric of renunciation,” the stories (kahani) and songs (bhajan) that they perform about the earth, its properties, and humans’ responsibility to the planet. In addition, this section explores sadhus’ ideas about ecological sustainability in a consumer-based economy through means of their performances. Part 2 examines the sadhus’ use and classification of metals, minerals, and gems, the deities associated with these substances, the problems they are thought to cure and/or prevent, and the sadhus’ personal experiences of illness that catalyzed their knowledge and use of metals, minerals, and gems. In sum, this essay contributes new research to academic studies of sannyas in South Asia and shows that sadhus draw on indigenous knowledge about minerals, metals, and gems in their practices both to address and redress the deleterious effects that Rajasthan’s mining industry is wreaking on the earth in a rapidly changing, postindustrial India.

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Reports on the topic "Bhutia women"

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Tshering, P. C. Celebrating Mountain Women: A Report on a Global Gathering in Bhutan. Kathmandu, Nepal: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.53055/icimod.401.

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Suh, Jooyeoun, Changa Dorji, Valerie Mercer-Blackman, and Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa. Valuing Unpaid Care Work in Bhutan. Asian Development Bank, November 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps200065-2.

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A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid work at the national level, and partially incorporated those values into their gross domestic product(GDP). One country that has been ahead of its time on aspects of societal welfare measurement is Bhutan, which produces the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index. However, until the first GNH Survey, in 2008, Bhutan did not have any sense of the size and distribution of unpaid work, despite its strong societal norms about the value of volunteering and community work. This paper is the first to estimate the value of unpaid care work in Bhutan. It shows the pros and cons of various approaches and their equivalent measures of unpaid care work as a share of GDP. As with similar studies on the topic, this paper also finds that women spend more than twice as much time as men performing unpaid care work, regardless of their income, age, residency, or number of people in the household. The paper also provides recommendations for improving the measurement of unpaid care work in Bhutan.

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