Nandigram, a riverine village in southern West Bengal, is well known all over the globe after the tragedy in 2007 on the conflicting issue of proposed land acquisition for petro-chemical hub. The movement itself is an account of the peoples' reaction to such acquisition drive irrespective of location and community involved. This book is an illustrative document on the state of post-violence Nandigram with a logical interpretation of an empirical research. It ...
This book basically deals with the 'Ethnography of Health' of the Chik Baraik community in the state of Jharkhand, India. It is a study on their culture, bio-demography and health in relation to their ecological settings. Culture has been conceived in the context of mechanism of adaptation to the environment as well as strategies of survival in promoting health and well-being as ingrained in their existing cultural norms and practices. Besides, two essential ...