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Guha, Ayan. "Book Review: Jyotiprasad Chatterjee and Suprio Basu. Left Front and After: Understanding the Dynamics of Poriborton in West Bengal and Suman Nath. People-Party-Policy Interplay in India: Micro-dynamics of Everyday Politics in West Bengal, c. 2008–2016." Studies in Indian Politics 9, no. 1 (May 27, 2021): 139–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023021999218.
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Jyotiprasad Chatterjee and Suprio Basu. Left Front and After: Understanding the Dynamics of Poriborton in West Bengal. New Delhi, India: Sage. 2020. 255 pages. ₹1,195. Suman Nath. People-Party-Policy Interplay in India: Micro-dynamics of Everyday Politics in West Bengal, c. 2008–2016. New Delhi, India: Routledge. 2020. 221 pages. ₹995.
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Chakrabarty, Bidyut. "The Left Front's 2009 Lok Sabha Poll Debacle in West Bengal, India." Asian Survey 51, no. 2 (March 1, 2011): 290–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.2011.51.2.290.
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This paper demonstrates that the Left Front is no longer unassailable in West Bengal, after three decades of rule. It identifies the specific reasons for the Left Front electoral debacle in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. The paper also argues that the Left Front is caught between the contrasting imperatives of adapting to changing socioeconomic conditions in liberalizing India, while concurrently attempting to remain true to its traditional communist ideology and support base in a globalized world.
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Bagchi, Amiya Kumar. "Failure of education policies in West Bengal, since 1951: An analysis." Studies in People's History 4, no. 2 (October 10, 2017): 223–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2348448917725859.
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West Bengal, in 1951, was ranked second in the country, with a literacy level of 24.0 per cent, though far behind Kerala with a literacy level of 47.18 per cent. From the very beginning there was an elitist bias in educational planning, so that primary education was badly neglected, and so subsequently West Bengal began to slide in relation to states like Kerala, Maharashtra, Mizoram or Goa. Unfortunately, the elitist bias also persisted during the Left Front rule. As a result, by the time of Census 2011, the literacy level of West Bengal had slid down so far that it was barely above the national average. At the same time, the small state of Tripura, also ruled by a Left Front government, coming up from far behind had caught up with and then had overtaken West Bengal, and was only a little behind Kerala, the most literate state in India. Although this article is supposed to be an account of the state of education in West Bengal since independence it concentrates essentially on the primary school sector, because that is the foundation of all further education. It refers to the Bhabatosh Datta Commission on higher education whose recommendations still remain valid and unfortunately unimplemented.
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Rund, Arild Engelsen. "Land and Power: The Marxist Conquest of Rural Bengal." Modern Asian Studies 28, no. 2 (May 1994): 357–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00012440.
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The Indian state of West Bengal is governed and politically dominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M) for short) which has been in Government there since 1977 as the largest constituent party to the ruling Left Front. The CPI(M)'s position in West Bengal is unique both in India and in the world in the sense that it is the only Communist party to be popularly elected and reelected to power for such a long period. Today it draws most of its electoral support from the rural areas where the party is supported by peasants of practically all socio-economic sections. It is to an interesting period in the history of Communism in Bengal that this article will turn, namely to the creation of a particular alliance of Marxists and peasants in the restlessness in that state in the late 1960s and the virtual elimination of non-Marxist forces in large areas.
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Datta, Prabhat Kumar, and Panchali Sen. "LAND REFORMS IN AN INDIAN STATE: LESSONS FROM THE EXPERIENCES OF IMPLEMENTATION." Journal of Asian Rural Studies 2, no. 1 (January 22, 2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20956/jars.v2i1.1361.
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Until the shift of developmental policy in India in 1990s the state used to play an instrumental role India’s development. By the time India attained independence it was widely regarded that semi feudal landlordism was the main obstacle in the way of national economic regeneration. In this paper an attempt has been to capture the processes of land reforms in India’s West Bengal under the Left Front rule and to critically review impact of this programme on village society. This paper also seeks to identify reasons with the help of empirical studies why it has not been possible for the Left Front Government to achieve the declared objectives of the programme. Major transformations in economic, social and political fields during the first two decades of the Left Front rule characterized by the successful implementation of land reform programmes but failed to produce sustained benefits to the poor beneficiaries of land reforms. The panchayat institutions were unsuccessful in making the poor realize that the existing social situation was not conducive for meeting their basic needs. The concluding part of the paper tries to bring together the lessons that the other countries or states in a federal system can learn from the experiences of implementation of land reforms programme in West Bengal.
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Bardhan, Pranab, and Dilip Mookherjee. "Determinants of Redistributive Politics: An Empirical Analysis of Land Reforms in West Bengal, India." American Economic Review 100, no. 4 (September 1, 2010): 1572–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.4.1572.
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We investigate political determinants of land reform implementation in the Indian state of West Bengal. Using a village panel spanning 1974–1998, we do not find evidence supporting the hypothesis that land reforms were positively and monotonically related to control of local governments by a Left Front coalition vis-à-vis the right-centrist Congress party, combined with lack of commitment to policy platforms. Instead, the evidence is consistent with a quasi-Downsian theory stressing the role of opportunism (reelection concerns) and electoral competition.(JEL D72, O13, O17, Q15)
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ChanWahn KIm and 최미혜. "West Bengal Assembly Elections 2001 in India and The End of 34 Years of Left Front Rule." Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 18, no. 2 (August 2011): 193–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.18107/japs.2011.18.2.009.
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Bhaduri, Madhuchandra. "Impact of Demonetization on Small Businesses in Indian Economy - An Empirical Study on Small Businesses at Cooch Behar District, West Bengal." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 10, no. 3 (March 14, 2018): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v10.n3.p2.
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<p>November 8<sup>th</sup>, 2016 was a path breaking day in Indian economy when Govt. of India has demonetized the high value currency notes and replaced with new notes of Rs.500 and Rs.2000. This move Govt. was taken to clean the black money from the market, to inspire digital economy and to reduce the ‘Cash’ payment culture of some people for tax evasion. The overnight decision changed the life of many people in India. Thousands of people they waited in long queues in front of Banks, ATMs for money. Entire social life of people throughout the country got distracted. Many poor daily wage workers were left with no job and income as owners were unable to pay their daily wage because of less cash, around 15 lakh jobs have been obsolete during this one year.</p><p> Despite Govt. of India has taken a bold step to make India corruption free and inspire the people in cashless transaction but after one year can we say India is really corruption free? Can we observe any significant improvement in cashless transactions? Can we see the digital payments have significantly improved for common general man?</p><p>Many reports stated that Country’s automobile and real estate sectors are highly affected and World Bank has downgraded the Indian economy’s growth forecast as sharp falls. The empirical findings suggest that the impact of demonetization on GDP growth during Q3 and Q4 of 2016-17 was mostly felt in construction and real estate, but the good thing was that because of stronger growth in manufacturing, agriculture, mining and electricity the overall impact on gross domestic product growth was modest.</p><p>Many reports stated that small traders have immensely affected after demonetization because of the cash crunch and lack of infrastructure like digital payment system etc. Small traders in retail sector (grocery shops etc), service sector (restaurants, nursing homes etc.), gems and jewellery, small traders in agricultural products, SMEs, small dealers, professionals like doctors, lawyers etc, have highly affected because of demonetization during last one year. So my objective to find out whether the small traders have really affected or not. If they are affected then how they have affected?</p><p>The main objective of this paper is to study the impact of demonetization on the small scale traders at Cooch Behar District of West Bengal and how it affected their business. As we all know that Cooch Behar is the princely state of West Bengal which is located very near to Assam, Bhutan and Siliguri region. As a district town Cooch Behar has a high significance in businesses with Northeast, Siliguri and Bhutan. I prepared a questionnaire and surveyed to 50 small scale businessmen at Cooch Behar district and tried to find their perception on demonetization and its impacts on their businesses during last one year. The study at Cooch Behar district may reflect the status of small traders for entire country. Another objectives I have kept here to study whether demonetization really eradicated corruption from India and whether demonetization has changed the behavior of the citizens of the country in cashless transactions?</p>
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Ankit, Rakesh. "P. N. Haksar and Indira’s India: A Glimpse of the Domestic Sphere, 1967–1976." Studies in Indian Politics 7, no. 1 (April 23, 2019): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023019838640.
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This article presents four episodes from the political period 1969 to 1976 in India, focusing on the views and actions of P. N. Haksar, Principal Secretary and Advisor to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (1967–1973). Unlike the ‘national/international politics’ hitherto under focus from then, that is, the Congress split (1969), birth of Bangladesh (1971) and the JP Movement/Emergency (1974–1975), the aspects under consideration in this article are of subterranean existence. First of these aspects is the provincial reverberations of the Congress split, the case considered here being that of the Bombay Pradesh Congress Committee. Second is the attitude of the Congress Party towards left opposition, the Communist Party of India Marxist (CPI [M]) in West Bengal, as revealed through the anxieties of Governor Shanti Dhavan. The third aspect under consideration is a glimpse of centre–states relations, as shown through New Delhi’s interactions with the EMS Namboodiripad-led and CPI (M)-dominated United Front Government of Kerala. Finally, the article looks at Haksar’s attempts at planning and development for the state of Bihar. Each of these four themes was among the ‘wider range of functions’ that Mrs Gandhi wished to be performed by her Secretariat and to allow us to test how successful each of it was. Each of these provides a context for contemporary issues.
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Kujur, Rini Pratik, and Puja Sen Majumdar. "A bid for memorialization: Negotiating public memory." Art & the Public Sphere 10, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 111–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/aps_00052_1.
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In March 2018, following the defeat of the Left Front by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led alliance in the Assembly elections in Tripura, India, one witnessed the demolition of Lenin’s statue in South Tripura amidst cries of, ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai!’. The Tripura governor, as a response, tweeted ‐ ‘[w]hat one democratically elected government can do another democratically elected government can undo, and vice versa’ (Karmakar 2018: n.pag.). In May 2019, newspaper reports stated that workers from the right-wing political organization, BJP had defaced a statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in Vidyasagar College, Kolkata, India. Of the many criticisms levelled against this incident, one in particular took a nativist and elitist tone and posited that the rally consisted of ‘outsiders’, i.e., people from the neighbouring states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. As these ‘outsiders’ were not cognizant of Vidyasagar’s contributions to the sociocultural and political fabric of West Bengal, it made them more prone to committing said acts of vandalism. To that end, this article will closely examine the contemporary debates concerning the vandalism and restoration of statues in South Asia, which brings up pertinent questions regarding state power and the narratives propagated in the daily lives of its citizens and the iconographic function of statues which allows for communities, both real and imagined to rally around it. As structures of cultural, religious and political significance rise to the fore with increasing frequency, debates on their utility, significance, allegiance and symbolism are burgeoning with multiple meanings. To that end, in an attempt to historicize said events it is imperative to unpack the categories of culture, religious and political representation and what goes into their production in order to better address the questions: ‘Who is represented?’ and ‘[w]ho gets to represent?’. This article will locate the discussion around how statues are related at once to the mundane, the local and the national and when they are vandalized, how are discourses around communities affected as a result within the contours of cultural and religio-political representation.
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Basu, Partha Pratim. "““Brand Buddha”” in India's West Bengal: The Left Reinvents Itself." Asian Survey 47, no. 2 (March 2007): 288–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.2007.47.2.288.
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The reincarnation of the ruling Left Front through the selective assimilation of elements of capitalism under Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee largely accounted for the party's victory in the 2006 state assembly elections in West Bengal. This article argues that ““Brand Buddha”” represents elements of both continuity and change and that the Left Front may find it hard to retain its disparate and evolving base in the future.
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Gupta, Prasanta Sen. "Politics in West Bengal: The Left Front versus the Congress (I)." Asian Survey 29, no. 9 (September 1989): 883–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2644833.
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Gupta, Prasanta Sen. "Politics in West Bengal: The Left Front versus the Congress (I)." Asian Survey 29, no. 9 (September 1989): 883–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.1989.29.9.01p0306j.
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Singh, Onkar. "West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: An Analysis." Journal of Policy & Governance 01, no. 01 (August 20, 2021): 69–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.33002//jpg010107.
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West Bengal Assembly election was one of the most keenly watched assembly elections in India in 2021. One of the reasons for this interest was the unexpected rise of the Bhartiya Janata Party in a state mostly known for its contests between the Left parties, the Indian National Congress, and the All-India Trinamool Congress. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) had only 3 seats in the last assembly election of 2016, whereas the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (AITC or TMC) party had 212 seats. The BJP was never a major player in the state except during the last parliamentary election (2019) when BJP bagged 18 out of the 42 parliamentary seats. The analysis presented in this paper analyzes the constituency-wise figures for each of the 294 constituencies spread over 19 districts of the state of West Bengal in India. The TMC emerged victorious with 48% of the total popular votes, while the opposition BJP got 39% of the popular votes. Also, TMC won 213 (73%) of total seats, whereas the BJP came to a distant second with 77 (26%) seats, even though it raised its stock significantly in the West Bengal Assembly from its 2016 tally of a meager 3 seats. After the West Bengal 2021 election results, Mamata Banerjee emerged as one of the main challengers of BJP at the national arena of Indian politics. This paper will benefit and help anyone interested in Indian political analysis and would also provide key insights for the political analysts and the political parties interested in a seat-by-seat deep dive. The analysis was done with the help of Microsoft Excel and R Software.
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Gupta, Prasanta Sen. "The 1995 Municipal Election in West Bengal: The Left Front is Down." Asian Survey 37, no. 10 (October 1, 1997): 905–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2645612.
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Gupta, Prasanta Sen. "The 1995 Municipal Election in West Bengal: The Left Front is Down." Asian Survey 37, no. 10 (October 1997): 905–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/as.1997.37.10.01p02856.
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Barik, Jyotiskona, and Soumyajit Chowdhury. "True mangrove species of Sundarbans Delta, West Bengal, eastern India." Check List 10, no. 2 (May 1, 2014): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/10.2.329.
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Varied opinions exist as to the species composition and ecological distinction of mangrove habitats of the Indian Sundarbans. Furthermore, distinction of true or major mangroves from mangrove-associate and minor species was left unresolved by past authors. The present study thus aimed to revise a species list of true mangroves in the Indian Sundarbans delta. An indexing of adaptive morpho-physiological characters of mangroves for the tidal-saline environment was conducted. The analysis illustrated 24 species of true mangroves in Indian Sundarbans, belonging to nine families. Of these, Rhizophoraceae showed maximum richness at each of the generic and specific categories assessed. The current study has highlighted the taxonomic richness and status of true mangrove from Indian Sundarbans, resolving the long debated distinction of true from minor and associate mangroves.
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Das, Suranjan. "The 1992 Calcutta Riot in Historical Continuum: A Relapse into ‘Communal Fury’?" Modern Asian Studies 34, no. 2 (April 2000): 281–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x0000336x.
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Calcutta's failure to insulate itself from the communal hysteria that plagued the length and breadth of India in the aftermath of the demolition of Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 came as a rude shock to the city's intelligentsia. True, the Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946 had initiated a vicious circle of communal rioting in the subcontinent climaxing in the ‘truncated settlement’ of 15 August 1947. The events of 1946–47 were viewed by left-wing intellectuals as a defeat of radicalism in post-Second World War Bengal politics. But the structural disarticulation between class and politics experienced during these Partition days was rapidly bridged in the western half of British Bengal that came to form a part of the Indian union. While other regions of India continued to be struck by periodic bouts of Hindu–Muslim violence, West Bengal remained relatively free of the communal virus. Calcutta, its capital city, emerged as the crucible of the country's left and democratic politics.
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Datta, Prabhat Kumar. "Exploring the Dynamics of Deliberative Democracy in Rural India: Lessons from the Working of Gram Sabhas in India and Gram Sansads in West Bengal." Indian Journal of Public Administration 65, no. 1 (January 24, 2019): 117–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556118814937.
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Deliberative democracy has gained considerable momentum in India in recent years in the wake of a new drive for decentralisation and democratisation to promote good governance. The constitutional amendment made in India in 1992 sought to institutionalise this concept in villages through a body called Gram Sabha (village assembly). The amendment mandates the constitution of this institution at the Gram Panchayat level (usually a cluster of villages), the functional details of which have been left to the hands of the states. The Gram Sabha is now in place in all the states though it varies from state to state in location and functions. Some states like West Bengal, have taken a step further by creating another body down the line at the level of the electoral constituency. This article presents a case study of Gram Sansads, as known in West Bengal against a general review of the working of the Gram Sabhas in India.
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Guha, Ayan. "Beyond Conspiracy and Coordinated Ascendancy: Revisiting Caste Question in West Bengal under the Left Front Rule (1977–2011)." Contemporary Voice of Dalit 13, no. 1 (May 2021): 50–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455328x211008434.
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This article has critically engaged with the speculative claim that the disappearance of caste question from public discourse during Left rule in West Bengal was a result of conscious upper-caste ploy to silence articulation of caste interests and tactfully eliminate the possibility of Dalit political assertion. To verify the veracity of this claim, this study has critically scrutinized Left Front’s political mobilization strategy of rural population and also its landmark land reform initiative. The investigation attempted by this article, in this regard, has revealed that there is little to suggest the existence of any organized upper-caste conspiracy. It is, however, true that the articulation and aggregation of political demands along the lines of caste was indeed averted in West Bengal through political tactics and developmental strategies devised by the upper castes. But, the marginalization of the caste question in mainstream politics was an unintended consequence of such political tactics and developmental strategies which were primarily designed with the objective to preserve and enlarge the political support base, rather than to contain the lower castes. Thus, political motives acted as far more important determinants of political and developmental activities rather than any inherent caste bias.
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Bar, Koushik, and Abhijit Guha. "ENGAGEMENT OF SCHOOL STUDENTS IN SHADOW EDUCATION: PRESENT STATUS IN INDIA & WEST BENGAL." International Journal of Advanced Research 11, no. 03 (March 31, 2023): 664–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/16479.
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Education has been afundamental part of society since ancient times. The modes of education, learning, and subject knowledge have been presented in a variety of ways over time. At present, formal education, or school education, is the most important for students. In front of this school or formal education, another education system has emerged, which is commonly referred to as private tuition, and scholars refer to it as Shadow Education. The recent study is mainly based on three objectives 1. The five highest and lowest states for children taking private tuition based on percentages In India. 2. Percentage of children enrolled in private tuition with respect to their grade, gender, school type, and parents education in India. 3. The percentage of children enrolled in private tuition by their school type in the State of West Bengal. Documentary analysis is mainly used as a research method, and secondary data is inculcated in this study. The findings of the study are that enrolment rates in the five highest and lowest states with private tuition are increasing over the previous year. The percentage of children taking tuition has improved from the previous years, with respect to grade, gender, school type, and parents education and hike around 40% in India. In the state of West Bengal, there is an increase in private tuition enrolment among private school students compared to government school students. According to ASER 2021, West Bengal is the highest private tuition-taking state in India at the school level.
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Ghosh, Rajashri. "Naxalism: The Left-Wing Extremist Movement in India." Polish Political Science Yearbook 52, no. 2 (2023): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy202332.
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After 200 years of bondage, India gained freedom from the British through numerous revolutionary movements in 1947. But, within 20 years of the independence, insurgent movements had started arising against the Indian Government as well. In 1967, the Naxalite insurgency was initiated as a radical protest by the oppressed peasants against the colonial tenancy system retained by the feudal landowners even after the British had left the country for good. The uprising got pinpointed as Naxalism and the rebels as Naxals, as it all started at Naxalbari, a village in the Indian state of West Bengal. Spanning over 50 years, this ongoing movement initially acquired the respect of the general population of India with its radical ideologies of fighting against the oppressor imperialists but soon mutated into a source of terror. A qualitative assessment of the instances taken from secondary sources, such as context-related online journals and blog articles, will help this paper to explain the formation of the contemporary perception of Naxalism as an extreme radical armed revolution and one of the biggest security challenges against the Indian Government.
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TRIVEDI, JIGNESHKUMAR N., SANTANU MITRA, and PETER K. L. NG. "Tritodynamia bengalensis n. sp., a new species of brachyuran crab from West Bengal state, India (Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae)." Zootaxa 4938, no. 3 (March 1, 2021): 325–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4938.3.3.
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Tritodynamia bengalensis n. sp. is described on the basis of a male specimen dredged from the shallow coastal waters of West Bengal state, India. The new species is morphologically similar to T. bidentata Yang & Tang, 2005 and T. serratipes Anker & Ng, 2014, but can be distinguished by the carapace shape, dentition of the pollex, relative length of the dactylus of the third maxilliped, proportions of the propodus of the third pereopod, and structure of the male left gonopod. This is the first record of the genus Tritodynamia from India.
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Barman, Rup Kumar. "‘Right-Left-Right’ and Caste Politics: The Scheduled Castes in West Bengal Assembly Elections (from 1920 to 2016)." Contemporary Voice of Dalit 10, no. 2 (August 22, 2018): 216–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455328x18787569.
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Since the beginning of the provincial election in the early twentieth century, ‘caste’ has been a ‘political issue’ in India. It transformed into a matter of serious political contradiction when the ‘reservation’ was introduced in India. After the independence of India, in all provincial and parliamentary elections starting from to 1952 till date, organized political parties have further contributed to the ‘process of politicization of caste’. Truly speaking, caste is now a ‘determinant factor’ for formation of the union government. This trend has been equally detected in certain provinces of India especially where the Scheduled Castes (SCs) have substantial concentration. West Bengal, with 21,463,270 SC population (i.e., 23.5% of the state’s population), has been experiencing caste politics since 1952. However, the SCs of this state have been used in electoral politics merely as ‘voters’. They were controlled by the ‘Rights’, till 1962. The period from 1962 to 1976 was a transitional phase from the ‘Rights’ to ‘Lefts’. The ‘Lefts’ established their control over the SCs in 1977. However, re-emergence of the ‘Rights’ (particularly of the All India Trinamool Congress [AITMC]) in 2011 has transformed the SCs as the ‘puppet dancers’ under the direction of the ‘Rights’.
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Samaddar, Ranabir. "Occupy College Street: Student Radicalism in Kolkata in the Sixties." Slavic Review 77, no. 4 (2018): 904–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/slr.2018.288.
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1968 saw a wave of protests and student radicalism in India, some of the tactics and issues of which were reminiscent of those in Europe and North America. The anti-imperialist theme was similarly strident, and the student and youth movement posed serious challenges to the old established Left, sharing traits of a global New Left agenda. The upsurge of post-independence radicalism in India, however, drew on different historical legacies, and exhibited many specific features, all of which culminated in the student and youth upsurge of 1968–69. In order to demonstrate the complex history and legacy of 60s radicalism in India, this essay takes us back to the sixties in Kolkata when the insurgent movement in West Bengal had developed the tactic of occupation, which helped the movement crystallize and caused, ironically, the undoing of the mobilization in the end. Occupy as a tactic thus has a history, and the radicals of today perhaps in their enthusiasm for the New Left ethos have ignored the history of the insurgent tactics of the past, especially tactics developed in the postcolonial context.
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Bhattacharyya, Sudipta, and Nikhil Kumar Mandal. "Transition in the Rural Credit Structure of West Bengal: The Case of Murshidabad District." Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journal of Agrarian South Network and CARES 10, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 210–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2277976020968319.
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This article examines the interlinkages between rural credit and other agrarian structures. The research is based on primary field survey data which is classified on the basis of labor-exploitation criteria and acreage grouping. The research shows that pre-capitalist relations substantially withered away primarily due to state intervention for land and agrarian reform under the Left Front Government. It also found the operation of market mechanisms (instead of personalized relations) in the determination of informal rates of interest and an inverse association with collateral value. This is reflected in the declining value of the weighted average interest rate (WARI) with ascending class status. Furthermore, it found that the WARI without collateral is lower than the WARI with collateral, the latter being confined only to lean seasons and emergency. An incidence of high interest rate is related to low marketable collateral and vice versa.
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Desai, M. "Party Formation, Political Power, and the Capacity for Reform: Comparing Left Parties in Kerala and West Bengal, India." Social Forces 80, no. 1 (September 1, 2001): 37–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sof.2001.0062.
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Singh, Atul K., Manoj K. Jaiswal, Jitendra K. Pattanaik, and Maha Dev. "Luminescence chronology of alluvial fan in North Bengal, India: Implications to tectonics and climate." Geochronometria 43, no. 1 (January 1, 2016): 102–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/geochr-2015-0037.
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AbstractAlluvial fans are important geomorphic archives because of its strategic location at mountain front which can provide clues to the past climate and tectonics. In general, they provide information about optimum climate condition suitable for fan formation. We provide a detailed luminescence chronology of alluvial fan in north West Bengal, India. The regional fan surface (T44) has been dissected by E-W trending Himalayan thrusts known as Matiali and Chalsa thrusts and have various terraces named as T3, T2and youngest one as T1. Luminescence ages suggest that the formation of the alluvial fan (regional surface) started before 171 ka and continued till 72 ka covering a time span of nearly 100 ky; suggesting of weaker monsoon at 72 ka. Matiali fault activated after 171 ky. Chalsa fault is suggested to be active during 48–41 ka. The last aggradational phase was around 6 ka which led to the formation of T1aterrace. The study suggests that climatic fluctuation during the period were shaping the morphology of the alluvial fan, along with tectonic activities on the two faults.
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Bautze-Picron, Claudine. "Some Observations on Vārāhī in Bihar and Bengal." Cracow Indological Studies 24, no. 2 (December 19, 2022): 117–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cis.24.2022.02.05.
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The sheer intensity of the encounter between the Buddhist and Hindu pantheons in ‘Eastern India’ (comprising the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and present Bangladesh) from the 7th to the 12th century, was unmatched in any other region.1 It left, above all, a visual and textual trail in the Buddhist iconography, as attested by the presence of two Mātṛkas (Mothers) among the members of Māra’s army attacking the Buddha on the night of his Awakening, Brahmanical deities being incorporated into the Buddhist world: Vārāhī appears in the Jagdishpur sculpture, and Cāmuṇḍā in a large fragment from a sculpture which must have been as large as the Jagdishpur image and used to stand in Lakhisarai, more fragments of it being preserved in the Indian Museum (Fig. 1).2 Further, the key component of Vārāhī iconography,3 the hog head, became an integral part of the images of Buddhist deities like Mārīcī and Vajravārāhī. The cultural background within which the images of the goddess were incorporated helps to understand this twofold phenomenon, the representation of her being transferred to a Buddhist context and some of her specific features being embedded in the iconography of Buddhist deities.
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Sarkar, Saurav, Arista Lahiri, Soumyajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Snehasish Das, and Tamal Chakraborty. "Benign and malignant lesions of the breast: clinico-pathological perspective from a government teaching hospital in West Bengal, India." International Surgery Journal 5, no. 11 (October 26, 2018): 3460. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20184609.
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Background: While breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancer more than half of the women develop some benign disease of breast in their lifetime. The current study was conducted to describe the clinico-pathological findings associated with breast diseases and study their relationship.Methods: A record-based cross-sectional study was conducted on the samples of breast tissue obtained by fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) examination. The clinical variables like age, sex, presenting complaint, involved side (right/left/both) etc. were taken from the clinical notes sent, and nature of the aspirate, histopathological diagnosis, nature of the diagnosed disease (benign/malignant), and axillary metastasis were taken as variables from pathological examination.Results: The mean age of the patients was 33.49 years (±13.24 years) with majority belonging to 20-40 years. Among the 184 specimens examined, 94.57% belonged to female patients. The most frequent presentation was with lump (95.11%). Complaint arising out of right breast (47.83%) were higher compared to left breast (40.76%). Involvement of the supero-lateral quadrant was seen in 75.54%. In 30.44% of the cases the material was bloody or blood-mixed. Majority of the patients (86.41%) were diagnosed with benign disease commonest being fibroadenoma. Ductal carcinoma was the commonest malignant lesion. Younger age group, absence of bloody discharge and absence of peau d’orange were associated with benign lesion in a statistically significant way (p-value <0.001).Conclusions: In consonance with published literature the findings suggest association of older age group with malignant lesions. Blood-mixed aspirate, peau d’orange appear to be danger signs.
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Sarkar, Victor, Ganesh Das, Rakesh Roy, B. C. Rudra, Paromita Bhowmick, S. Chakraborty, D. Majumdar, P. Pal, and D. Sarkar. "Impact Analysis of the Mushroom Cultivation Training and Demonstrations Programme in the Old Alluvial Zone of West Bengal, India." Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 30, no. 5 (March 28, 2024): 472–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i51963.
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Edible mushrooms are part of a delicious and nutrient-dense vegetarian diet. KVK Malda conducted front-line demonstrations and trainings to evaluate the profitability of oyster mushroom production from 2020 to 2022. It is found from the study that the benefit-cost ratio of oyster mushroom cultivation was significant, and the majority of the respondents participated in a mushroom cultivation training program to learn about mushroom growing techniques for self-consumption and become entrepreneurs. It was found from the study that the majority of the respondents were able to identify edible and wild mushrooms, and they used the bi-product of mushrooms for compost production. It is also found from the study that the majority of the farmers in the old alluvial zone discontinue mushroom cultivation due to a lack of marketing facilities.
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Kushwaha, Poonam, and Bijay Prakash Yadav. "Prevalence and determinants of left ventricular hypertrophy among elderly hypertensive patients attending tertiary health care center in West Bengal, India." Annals of Geriatric Education and Medical Sciences 9, no. 1 (July 15, 2022): 16–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18231/j.agems.2022.004.
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: Hypertension (HTN) is one of the most prevalent, modifiable and treatable causes of cardiovascular diseases in the elderly. Damage to cardiovascular system due to chronic hypertension causes hypertensive heart disease including left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). It is a physiological adaptation to chronic blood pressure (BP) indicating grave prognosis and should be diagnosed early. Present study therefore aimed to assess LVH and other Cardio-vascular (CV) changes and to ascertain correlation between the electrocardiographic (ECG) and radiographic / chest x-ray (CXR) evidences and find out their determinants among elderly hypertensive patients. 100 elderly hypertensive subjects were included in study. Cardio-vascular changes and LVH was assessed by using chest x-ray and ECG. Other bio-chemical investigations were done also.: 29% and 32% subjects had LVH detected by Chest x-ray and ECG respectively. Female, increasing age, family history and duration of HTN, smoking, alcohol consumption were found independent determinants of LVH. Subjects with LVH had higher mean blood pressures, mean pulse pressure and higher blood urea nitrogen than those without LVH. Micro-albuminuria was significantly more frequent in patients with LVH as detected by CXR. Fasting Blood sugar and dyslipidaemia was associated with greater odds of developing LVH. In low resource settings, where standard diagnostic tests are unavailable- chest x-ray and ECG are the useful tools for detection of cardio vascular changes / LVH among chronic hypertensive.
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McDaniel, June. "At the Burning Ground: Death and Transcendence in Bengali Shaktism." Religions 14, no. 8 (August 8, 2023): 1014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14081014.
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The burning ground is both a place and a metaphor in the religion of Shaktism or goddess worship in West Bengal, India. As a place, it is where corpses are cremated. As a metaphor, it refers to the human heart, which has been left as a wasteland through sorrow and tragedy. It is when the soul loses its attachment to this world, when the heart is desolate and alone, that the dark goddess Kali descends from the heavens. She may bring the gift of salvation, bringing the soul to her paradise, or she may save it from unhappy rebirth by bringing a new and better life. She may also bring the universal consciousness that is moksha or liberation. Transcendence from the bondage of worldly attachments, which are left behind amid the ashes of the burning ground, brings divine vision and realization. This paper explores the roles of negation and desolation in ritual practice and religious experience in Bengali Shaktism.
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Verhagen, Henk Jan. "Financial Benefits of Mangroves for Surge Prone High-Value Areas." Water 11, no. 11 (November 13, 2019): 2374. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11112374.
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In this paper, protection options for a high-value, industrial area along the coast of West Bengal (India) are investigated. The options are designed to protect against cyclone surges with a probability of 1/100 per year. Two alternatives are compared, a classical solution of a dike with a revetment and a solution with a mangrove belt in front of the dike. The results reveal that from a pure infrastructural cash-flow point-of-view, the mangrove solution is at least 25% cheaper than the classical solution with a rock revetment. An important finding is that this conclusion does not need the financial evaluation of the obvious additional ecological advantages that mangroves offer. It is postulated that these results are generally valid for high-value coastal areas under the attack of waves during storm surges.
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Dutta, A. "Impact of improved technologies on productivity and profitability of rapeseed-mustard production at farm level in West Bengal, India." SAARC Journal of Agriculture 14, no. 2 (January 23, 2017): 126–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/sja.v14i2.31251.
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Ten year study of front line demonstrations (FLDs) on rapeseed-mustard was conducted to assess the potentiality of improvised production technology. In West Bengal, Rapeseed-mustard is the major oilseed crop contributing 53% of total oilseed production of the state. One of the major constraints is low productivity of this crop due to non adoption of recommended package of practices and situation-specific improved varieties by most of the growers. Data used for this study were pertained to FLDs in rapeseed-mustard conducted under Integrated Scheme on Oilseeds, Pulses, Oil palm and Maize (ISOPOM) during 2005-06 to 2014-15. The study revealed 27% yield advantage by the adoption of improved varieties almost with other practices. The other components viz., adoption of right method and time of sowing, seed treatment, application of sulphur and boron, integrated fertilizer and irrigation management, integrated pest and disease management showed 37, 32, 26, 32, 26 and 28% respectively yield advantage over farmers practice. Popularization of these proven technologies to the rapeseed- mustard growers will help them to get higher economic returns with sustainable production system of the state.SAARC J. Agri., 14(2): 126-136 (2016)
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Patel, Jigisha, and Tirthankar Ghosh. "Assessment of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) of weaving factory workers in West Bengal, India - a pilot study." International Journal of Occupational Safety and Health 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 69–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijosh.v13i1.42281.
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Introduction: Excessive noise exposure is one of the majorly considered occupational stress for industrial workers. The operation of steel weaving machinery producing a high level of noise such as weaving machines, crimping machines, and hydraulic press machines for a prolonged period increases the risk of developing noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL). The main aim of the study was to assess the auditory health of the workers exposed to a high level of noise in a steel weaving factory and the prevalence of NIHL among workers. Methods: 26 subjects in the age group of 25-55 years from a steel weaving industry of Chinsurah town, Hooghly district of West Bengal were randomly selected with 5 years of exposure for the study. The control group was selected from the same age group, socioeconomic status and geographical location and having no history of such exposure. The physiological parameters of the workers, noise levels in the workplace and auditory functions and the risk of NIHL were assessed by standardized protocol and statistically analyzed. Results: The study indicated that steel weaving factory workers had significantly reduced hearing functionality at 4000Hz and 6000Hz in the left ear respectively. It also revealed that the workers were exposed to high noise exposure of 131dB near weaving machine, 113dB at crimping machine, and 84dB at hydraulic press machine respectively. Conclusion: A high level of noise exposure leads to deterioration in the hearing capabilities of the steel weaving industrial workers. Implementation of ergonomic interventions in the workplace and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) may decrease the prevalence of NIHL and can help to prevent hearing loss in workers.
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Sen, Uday Kumar, and Ram Kumar Bhakat. "Quantitative Analysis of Floristic Composition, Biological Spectrum and Leaf Spectrum of a Sacred Grove in Jhargram District, West Bengal, India." Biogenesis: Jurnal Ilmiah Biologi 8, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.24252/bio.v8i2.16407.
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Sacred Groves are tracts of virgin forests, left untouched and protected by local people, because of culture and religious beliefs. These tracts are remnants of the once-dominant flora, reservoirs of the rich biodiversity, and the last refuge for preserving the rich indigenous culture and traditions. For these reasons, the biological and leaf spectra, as well as the conservation status of the current sacred grove vegetation, Maa Mongalmoyee Than (MMT) in Jhargram district of West Bengal, India, have been studied. The results of floristic studies showed 217 MMT's angiosperm species, belonging to 196 genera, distributed under 59 families of 27 orders. Furthermore, Poales (13.82%) and Fabaceae (12.44%) are the dominant order and family, respectively, in terms of species population. Meanwhile, the biological spectrum showed the grove enjoys a "thero-chamaephyte" phytoclimate form, as well as a comparatively undisturbed status, being a sacred grove. Also, the preservation of germplasm within the grove is based on traditional belief in the social system.
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Löfgren, Hans. "The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Left Government in West Bengal, 1977–2011: Strains of Governance and Socialist Imagination." Studies in Indian Politics 4, no. 1 (May 12, 2016): 102–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023016634947.
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Mondal, Ankan, Arista Lahiri, Prama Ray, and Atanu Bhattacharjee. "Effective treatment options in amoebic liver abscess in a tertiary care setting in West Bengal: an observational study, India." International Surgery Journal 5, no. 11 (October 26, 2018): 3666. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-2902.isj20184641.
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Background: Conservative management and image guided drainage have emerged as mainstay of the treatment in Amoebic Liver Abscess (ALA), with surgery used in complicated cases. The current study was conducted with an objective to demonstrate the effectiveness of the different treatment options in ALA.Methods: An observational study was conducted on 100 patients, aged 19 to 60 years, admitted with sonographic evidence of Amoebic Liver Abscess (ALA) in the General Surgery wards of a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata. Patients coming for regular follow-up after completing treatment were included. On completion of the treatment before discharge a repeat ultrasonography of the upper abdomen was done to confirm remission.Results: Majority of the patients were male, Muslim, rural resident and within 30 – 40 years age. Chief complaints were pain (100%), fever (60%) and abdominal swelling (80%). Tender hepatomegaly (80%) and icterus (36%) were present. Majority patients had the left lobe of the liver affected (72%) and abscess dimension <6 cms (66.67%). Out of the participants with unruptured abscess 21.87% had multiple abscesses. Out of 64 patients subjected to conservative therapy, 44 were successfully managed. Success rate of 72.73% was observed among 44 patients receiving ultrasound guided needle aspiration. All twenty patients subjected for pigtail catheter drainage were cured. Four patients underwent laparotomy and open drainage following intraperitoneal rupture.Conclusions: Conservative treatment was observed to be sufficient in majority of cases of amoebic liver abscess of lesser size with percutaneous catheter drainage useful in large abscess. Surgical intervention was required in ruptured or complicated abscesses.
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Kuppusamy, Rohitha, Hannah Ranjee Prasanth, and Hema Priya. "Bilateral nevus of Ota – A rare clinical presentation." Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 9, no. 2 (June 15, 2023): 278–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.18231/j.ijceo.2023.053.
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Nevus of Ota is a rare congenital hamartoma of the dermal melanocytes causing a blue-grey hyperpigmentation of the eye and adnexa. The condition is usually unilateral but rarely it can be bilateral. A 28-year-old lady from West Bengal, India, visited the Ophthalmology outpatient department with the complaints of blackish discoloration of left side of the face and periorbital region. On examination, a large (5x6 cm) lesion was noted on the skin of the left side of face, forehead, sclera, lower palpebral conjunctiva, ala of nose, hard palate along with sclera and iris of the right eye. Cutaneous examination revealed that the lesion is unilateral diffuse, homogenous, blue-gray colored macular pigmentation with ill-defined borders. The lesions do not undergo spontaneous regression, but the intensity of the blue-black discolored lesions may vary during menstruation, fatigue or change in weather. The patient needs to be followed up annually, checking at each visit for visual acuity, biomicroscopy, intraocular pressure, gonioscopy and fundus examination. A thorough knowledge of the disease process, possible complications and screening protocol can help the ophthalmologist to pick up sight threatening complications early, initiate prompt treatment which may avert possible visual loss.
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Patra, Kajal Kumar, Apurba Mandal, Shibram Chattopadhyay, Arunava Biswas, and Siddhartha Majumder. "A retrospective case series of rupture uterus during five years period at a rural medical college in West Bengal, India." Asian Journal of Medical Sciences 12, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 91–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v12i2.31019.
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Background: Rupture of the uterus carries major risk of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality especially in the developing world.
Aims and Objectives: This study aims to identify retrospectively the risk factors leading to uterine rupture through case series and to determine the feto-maternal outcome of such serious clinical condition.
Material and Methods: A retrospective study was done at Bankura Sammilani Medical College, Bankura, West Bengal, India from January 2014 to December 2018 to observe the incidence, aetiology, management and complications with maternal and foetal mortality and morbidity associated with rupture of the uterus in pregnant women at different gestational periods. The data were obtained from the case record section of the hospital. All rupture uterus cases were included excluding the dehiscence of scarred uterus.
Results: Twenty-one cases of Rupture Uterus were documented out of total delivery of 43,323 mothers in five years. There was a single maternal death and 15 (71.42 %) unbooked cases. Previous mode of delivery was found to be vaginal in 5 cases (23.8%). Most of the incidences of rupture uterus were scarred uterus (previous caesarean section and repaired uterus) 16 cases (76.19%), prolonged / obstructed labour 4 cases (19%), inductionof labour 1 (4.76%) and spontaneous rupture 1 (4.76%). Most cases were multiparous; site of rupture was in lower uterine segment in 18 cases (85.7%), fundal rupture 2 cases (9.52%) and left lateral 3 cases (14.2%). Bladder injury was in 1 case (4.76 %). Total abdominal hysterectomy was performed in 2 cases (9.52%) andsubtotal hysterectomy were done in 15 cases (71.4%); repair of the ruptured uterus wasperformed in 4 cases (19%). Fever and wound infections were present in 5 cases (23. 8%). Maternal death 1(4.76%) and 3 babies survived with perinatal mortality 18 (85.7%).
Conclusion: Mandatory antenatal care, prompt diagnosis and safe instrumental delivery may change the rupture uterus incidences.
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Sarkar, Debjani, and Nirban Manna. "Men Without Names." Archiv orientální 89, no. 1 (June 25, 2021): 155–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.89.1.155-183.
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Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) in India was realized along the lines of Maoist ideology through the Naxalite insurgency in the 1960s. Novelists have attempted to grasp the mood of this decade of liberation through fiction. This article attempts to study two novels which document the formative years of the Naxalite movement in West Bengal. Translated works from Bengali, Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084 (1974) and Bani Basu’s The Enemy Within (1991) foreground the necropolitical policies of the demonic state in eliminating these Naxal names. State and non-state actors obliterate the question of the Naxal’s identity (enmeshed with his mind and body), making it the focal point of the analysis. Drawing abundantly on concepts of homo sacer, necropolitics, McCarthyism, and democide, the analysis demonstrates that the protagonists are typical of what modern biopolitical states do to non-conformist subjects by creating death worlds. This article is an attempt at understanding the nuances of a sociopolitical movement through literature as social responsibility.
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Majumdar, Samrat, and Sujit Mondal. "River bank erosion risk potential estimation through mechanical and erodibility analysis of soil: A study on left bank of Ganga river near Malda district in West Bengal, India." National Geographical Journal of India 66, no. 4 (December 31, 2020): 331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.48008/ngji.1752.
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River bank erosion is a hazardous and common phenomenon in diara region near Malda district of North East India during monsoon and post-monsoon periods of every year. One of the significant causes behind the erosion is the textural composition and its arrangement along the river bank. The left bank of Ganga River is texturally very weak along diara region of Malda district. In the present study, the nature of riverbank soil textural composition has been measured by basis parameters analysis and mechanical analysis of soil and its erodibility level. Sieve analysis has been done on all collected soil samples and determines soil basic parameters. The nature of the soil has been derived through the mechanical analysis of particles after Folk and Worst method. Besides that, the degree of soil erodibility has been analyzed through the Bouyoucos Erodibility Index and ROM scale after Roslan and Mazidah. The results show that the erodibility levels become high to the moderate condition along the middle to lower extension of left bank line and relatively low along with upper extension according to ROM scale. Nature of soil along the left bank is dominantly sandy which also indicates the vulnerable condition of bank sites. Basic parameters of soil and its mechanical analysis also reveals that unstable condition exists along with the whole extension of the riverbank line but instability condition is increasing from upper to lower segment of bank line. So the risk of riverbank failure can be measured by determining the textural composition of the soil.
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Sikdar, Debosmita, Shwetadri Bhandari, and Sanjay Paira. "Coexistence of Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata (Geoffroy, 1803) (Mammalia: Pholidota: Manidae) and Indian Crested Porcupine Hystrix indica (Kerr, 1792) (Mammalia: Rodentia: Hystricidae) in Purulia District, West Bengal, India." Journal of Threatened Taxa 16, no. 2 (February 26, 2024): 24630–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/jott.8736.16.2.24630-24645.
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The Indian Pangolin Manis crassicaudata and the Indian Crested Porcupine Hystrix indica are subject to extensive poaching in Purulia District (West Bengal, India), diminishing their populations, and making the study difficult. Applying methodologies that include local sightings, field observations, camera trapping, and quadrate analysis, these species were observed to co-occur in rocky cavities in Ajodhya hills at several locations. Evidence for this included fresh pangolin tail drag marks, claw prints, footprints, scales, porcupine quills, teeth marks, and faecal matter in the same locations within the study area. Quadrate analysis showed that the trees housing the target prey species of the Indian Pangolin as well as the trees bearing fruits favoured by the Indian Crested Porcupine, occurred at maximum frequency within the Quadrate area. We hypothesise that pangolins and porcupines co-occupy rocky cavities for protection from poachers, who can easily break into more typical burrows and set traps in front of them. This may be an example of adaption to poaching, which demonstrates the necessity of conservation measures to alleviate severe anthropogenic pressure.
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Sarkar, Shatanik, Chaitali Patra, Debasree Guha, Malay Kumar Dasgupta, and Santanu Das. "Kidney size in Children of Post-Weaning age: Does Nutrition have an Effect?" Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society 42, no. 1 (November 27, 2022): 80–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jnps.v42i1.37245.
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Introduction: This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of nutrition on kidney size and to determine the correlation between renal parameters and different anthropometric parameters. Methods: This hospital-based descriptive observational study has been done in a tertiary care centre of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Fifty malnourished children & 50 healthy children (Controls) within the age group of six months to five years were included in the study. Anthropometric parameters (e.g. weight, height, mid-arm circumference, skinfold thickness etc.) were measured manually and bilateral kidney sizes were measured by ultrasound. Results: Malnourished children had significantly lower weight, mid arm circumference, skinfold thickness, body mass index and body surface area [p < 0.001], but the difference in height / length was not significant (p = 0.074). The length, width, depth and volume of both left and right kidneys and relative renal volume were significantly lower in the malnourished children (p < 0.001). But, the same significance has not been found with kidney width, thickness or volume. Conclusions: Malnutrition adversely affects kidney growth in children of post-weaning age.
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Kulsum, Kaniz, and Kunal Kanti Majumdar. "A study on socio-demographic and obstetric profile, contraceptive use and reasons for medical termination of pregnancy among women attending medical termination of pregnancy clinic in Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, India." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 9, no. 7 (June 28, 2022): 2981. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20221770.
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Background: Induced abortion contributes significantly to maternal morbidity and mortality in developing countries yet women still seek repeat induced abortion in-spite of the availability of contraceptive services. The objective of this study was to identify the socio-demographic and obstetric profile of the mother’s seeking abortion as well as causes for seeking abortion.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study among selected women undergoing medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) at Tamluk district hospital and Haldia sub divisional hospital (SDH) of Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal. Results: A total of 52 women participated in the study. Among the study subjects, majority (53.83%) of the women were between 26-35 years of age. 88.46% of participants were Hindu by religion and belonged to nuclear families (80.76%). Common reasons given by the mothers for terminating of the pregnancy were previous baby too young (32.69%) and completed family size (28.84%) and contraceptive failure (28.84%).Conclusions: Unmet need of contraception is still an issue in respect to unwanted pregnancy. So focused attention from Front line workers like ANM, ASHA is required to meet the unmet need of contraception.
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BHASWATI SAHA, MRITYUNJAY GHOSH, and B.C. PATRA. "Standardization of planting time, spacing and nutrient management for traditional red-husked scented rice (Oryza sativa) in West Bengal." Indian Journal of Agronomy 67, no. 1 (December 30, 2022): 6–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.59797/ija.v67i1.77.
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The effect of planting time (10 July, 25 July and 10 August), spacing (15 cm × 15 cm and 20 cm × 15 cm), and nutrient management [100% recommended dose (RD) of organic, 100% RD inorganic, and 50% RD organic + 50% RD inorganic] of small-grained red-husked scented “Lal Badshabhog” rice was studied during the wet season of 2014 and 2015 in a split split-plot design at Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, India. Early-planted crop (10 July) produced tallest plants at maturity (160.2 cm) and leaf-area index (LAI) at 84 days after transplanting (DAT) (4.88), but late planting (10 August) resulted in better tiller production at 56 DAT (285.4/ m2 ). Mean light extinction co-efficient (k) of the variety was 0.40 and 0.37 at 56 and 84 DAT, respectively. ‘Lal Badshabhog’ rice planted on 10 August recorded the highest grain yield (2.72 t/ha), which was 3.77 and 12.76% higher over 25 July and 10 July planting, respectively. Close planting (15 cm × 15 cm or 44 hills/m2 ) could improve the grain yield of ‘Lal Badshabhog’ rice by 3.95% (2.63 vs. 2.53 t/ha) over wider spacing (20 cm × 15 cm or 33 hills/m2 ), and application of 100% RD (N 50, P2O5 25, K2O 25 kg/ha) through chemical fertilizers resulted in higher grain yield (2.64 t/ha), net returns (` 32,900/ha) and benefit : cost ratio (2.02) compared to organic or integrated nutrient management. Mean N, P and K uptake by “Lal Badshabhog” rice at maturity was 41.2, 15.8 and 30.3 kg/ha, respectively, and the crop grown under integrated nutrient management (50% RD organic + 50% RD chemical fertilizer) left the field with better residual status (+5.9% N, +28.3% P2O5 and +1.7% K2O) over initial values after 2-year study in Gangetic alluvium soil.
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Pokhrel, Rajkumar. "Naxalbari and Jhapa Revolt: Historical Study." Tribhuvan University Journal 32, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 119–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/tuj.v32i2.24707.
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Naxalbari is a small village in West Bengal, India, where a section of the Communist Party of India (CPM) led by Kanu Sanyal,and Jangal Santhal initiated a violent uprising in 1967. On 18 May 1967, the Siliguri Kishan Sabha, of which Jangal was the president, declared their support for the movement initiated by Kanu Sanyal and readiness to adopt armed struggle to redistribute land to the landless. But before it, as a consequence of the debate in international communist movement, Indian communist Party split and a faction choose the path of Mao Thought to go ahead. The party was led by Charu Majumdar, Kanu Sanyal and Jangal Santhal revolted against the existing political system. The uprising was started from Naxalbari village by using the policy of “annihilation of class enemy”. It is known as Naxalbari Revolt. But the neither could gain achievement nor run for long last. Top leader of the party, Charu Majumdar, was arrested and killed. After his murder, the party split into more than one dozen factions. On the other side, in Nepal, the neighboring district Jhapa came into influence of Naxalbari Revolt and the youth communists of Jhapa started the revolt using the same path of Naxalbari. Jhapa Revolt also runs for only 30 months. Both the movements became failure to achieve the aim. But due to the differences of ruling structure, existing political system, and geo political condition between two countries, the revolt of India split into several divisions and the movement of Nepal, even being unsuccessful to achieve the aim achieved to unify the divided movement. The impact of Naxalbari movement in India seems remain still now in some parts of India but in Nepal, Jhapa revolt has become a history. Whatsoever, both revolts have left impact in both countries till now.
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Khemariya, Swejal. "A Comparative Study on Different Types of Solar Dryers." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 11, no. 9 (September 30, 2023): 833–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2023.55725.
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Abstract: In India, 16 % of the total produce that is being wasted every year is horticultural produce. The underlying cause of post-harvest loss in the country is the lack of infrastructure for short-term storage, particularly at the farm level, concentration of cold storage in some states, lack of trained staff to operate cold storage systems, as well as the lack of intermediate processing in the production catchments. In the country, there is a 90% deficit of cold storage facilities. This shortage is compounded by misallocation. The cold storages are concentrated in a few states while vast expanses of the nation are left underserved. The nation’s 60% cold storages are located in just 4 states – Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, West Bengal and Punjab. Out of the 30.11 million metric tonnes of cold storage facility provided by the 6,300 cold chain warehouses in the country, Tamil Nadu has access to only 0.0239. In India, milk, meat and poultry are prioritized for cold chain transport because they are highly perishable; meaning a lack of temperature-controlled transit would cause a near absence of these products in the market. Consequently, when horticultural produce is shipped, it is often sent in unrefrigerated, overstocked trucks that either rot the food in transit or damage it severely due to poor packaging. Furthermore, the Indian government estimates that 80-90% of the remaining cold storage in the country is used to house potatoes leaving disproportionate hordes of other perishable foods like fresh fruits unguarded.
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Sarkar, Tanika, and Sumit Chowdhury. "The meaning of Nandigram." Focaal 2009, no. 54 (June 1, 2009): 73–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2009.540106.
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This article discusses the events at Nandigram in West Bengal where in 2006-7, a Left Front government collaborated with an Indonesian corporate group to forcibly acquire land from local peasants and construct a Special Economic Zone. The events are placed against the broad processes of accumulation by dispossession through which peasants are losing their land and corporate profits are given priority over food production. The article looks at the working and implications of the policies and the way in which a Communist Party-led government had become complicit with such processes over the last decade. It critically examines the logic that the government offered for the policies: that of the unavoidable necessity of industrialization, demonstrating that industrialization could have been done without fresh and massive land loss and that industries of the new sort do not generate employment or offset the consequences of large scale displacements of peasants. The article's central focus is on the peasant resistance in the face of the brutalities of the party cadres and the police. We explore the meaning of the victory of the peasants at Nandigram against the combined forces of state and corporate power, especially in the context of the present neo-liberal conjuncture.