International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies

17-32

Authors: Rajesh Khan, Dr. Sujay Kumar Mandal

The Karbi and Bodo are the important ethnic groups in North-East India and who hold rich and unique traditional knowledge. They are the true ethnic tribal community. In Assam, surrounding area of Khetri of Dimoria block of the district of Kamrup (Metro), a large number of Karbi and Bodo people live there. They are involved in many types of cultural expressions, agricultural, indigenous medicinal thought etc. which are related to traditional knowledge and this generally has been passed on from generation to generation. Traditional knowledge generally refers to traditional knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, ethnic groups or local communities. It includes different types of knowledge about traditional technologies of subsistence (e.g. tools and techniques for hunting or agriculture), folk medicines, traditional preservation techniques of different materials and ecological knowledge etc. The Karbi and Bodo are preserving their own traditional knowledge in terms of daily life practices. It is used among those ethnic people as a part of their culture and it is most significant and important aspect of Bodo and Karbi people. In this paper, we have documented the traditional knowledge and discussed on different types of traditional techniques among the Bodo and Karbi people of Khetri are.

42-51

Authors: Madan Mandal

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an eminent political leader of Indian history. He was also a great philosopher. There was always firmness, strong believe, humanity, logic, truth and high idealism in his every statement and work. Through his life style we can learn the proper ways of life; he never imposed anything on anyone. This article attempts to accumulate his concept on the life style of an individual and the ideal standard of living. Very often, many of his statements, ideas and concepts are misinterpreted and controversy arises. His concept of individual life has also been misinterpreted often and it lit flames of controversy. So, the present work intends to explain his concept on individual life, with the support of various statements given by him and given on him.

65-73

Authors: Samarth Singhal

Manjit Bawa remains an imposing influence on the canon of Indian painting. His sharp colours, distorted shapes and nightmarish landscapes not only revised styles but also methods of political response. His distortions seem to allegorize narratives of violence he is able to internalize. This paper seeks to explain these artistic choices in terms of play, irony and artistic self-awareness, thus trying to theorize his responses to late twentieth century violence in prominent North Indian states, especially when read against his apparently apolitical stance toward his own art. The paper attempts to read his work as a committed reaction to problems of representation, play and colour. For instance he gives up on realism and recognizability. Such a movement in his work may be read as a shift against play for the sake of stylized play and a gesture toward a more responsible satiric contemplation of collective guilt. Thus, his ‘fabulism’ becomes an instrument of castigation and not an end in itself.

80-87

Authors: Mrs. T. Kumuthavalli

India has a unique geo-climatic condition which makes it as vulnerable for various types of natural disasters like earthquakes, droughts, cyclones, floods, and landslides etc., There is no country which is saved from disaster of any kind and there is no such immune system was developed to save from natural calamities which have been a frequent incident of all nations and the number of occurrences and its nature might be of different at different places. There are different types of disasters based on its sources. The first one is natural calamities; it is a major one which includes hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, outbreaks of volcano, landslides, fires, tsunamis. Second type is environmental emergencies including industrial accidents, technological accidents, connecting with productions, usage and transportation of hazardous materials and forest fire caused by humanoid actions. Third most important type is Complex emergencies including authority break-down, prowling, external and internal attacks, conflict situations and war. The fourth type of emergencies are Epidemic in nature including unexpected start of transmissible disease affecting health, interrupts of services and businesses, and wide variations in economic and social expenses. The present paper focuses on Natural calamities and its impact on agricultural development. All types of Disasters are having its impact in all fields. Agricultural development has been very much affected by all kinds of disasters particularly through Natural calamities. The major responsibility of the Government is to ensure the Sustainable Livelihood for its people. In fact, sustainability of livelihoods is mostly disturbed by Natural Calamities. This paper highlights the impact of recent Natural Calamities on Agricultural Development. The existing facts and figures were critically analyzed for arriving valid conclusion.

96-115

Authors: Dr. Eman A. Fraihat, Dr. As’ad J. Abu Libdeh

This article investigates women's political rights in the Jordanian legislation which, like all laws, asserts the natural rights and public freedoms of man. It follows up women struggle to obtain their rights, and the development of the relevant Jordanian legislation- two processes affected by social, economic and political factors. It has arrived at the fact that unwritten laws still prevail and give men the edge over women. To redress the situation, Jordan has reformed its laws and is battling against some cultural and social considerations which help exercise gender-based discrimination. The study recommends the need for all stakeholders such as governmental bodies, civil institutions, companies and societal organisations to join forces to effect a qualitative change in the view of the society regarding full political participation of women and erase all aspects of discrimination against them.

133-140

Authors: Bikash Kumar Bora

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and everybody is entitled to all the rights and freedoms without any distinction of race,gender,colour etc.But it is a matter of ill-luck that women are discriminated in all over the world in all fields.In ancient India women enjoyed the equal position with men in the society but with the passing of time, this equality has gradually disappeared in all the sphere of the society.Hence ,the issue of women’s poltical participation and representation has alyas in the backstage and basically the level of representation is very low in India.This paper deals with the women emancipation through its political participation and the empowerment of women to a great extent.

152-158

Authors: Dr. Thamarai Selvi

W. C. Bryant’s poem Thanatopsis was a poem meant to be comforting and to think of death as a happy dream-filled sleep. Robert Browning’s Prospice gave us two indications that there was honour in life, both of which came from relationship to others and to persist in the face of death so one could "fare like his peers" which carried a positive tone of friendship. In the poem “Thanatopsis" the narrator started by talking about nature's ability to make us feel better. The speaker tells us that nature could make pain less painful. It could even lighten our dark thoughts about death. He tells us that, when we begin to worry about death, we should go outside and listen to the voice of nature. That voice reminds us that we would indeed vanish when we die and mix back into the earth. The voice of nature also tells us that when we die, we won’t be alone. Every person who had ever lived on this ground and everyone who is alive will be soon dead and in the ground too. In Prospice the speaker is the poet himself and says that he would not falter before death even though its imminence perverted the journey of life, but instead would march forward heroically and face it head-on. The speaker considers himself a "fighter" and refuses to consider taking a coward's route to death and approaching it with anything less than full confidence. Both the poems are a kind of consolation portraying that death was inevitable for mortals and one had to prepare for death.

167-177

Authors: Yelizaveta Mikhailovna Sharonova, Dr. Devika Sharma

Nuclear power is controversial subject that raises a lot of debates. The nuclear power debates impact the public perception of the value of atom as energy source, and consequently a country’s development policy. The article presents an overview of the theoretical foundations of discourse analysis and the current approaches to discourse studies that contributed to the development of a new insight into nuclear power discourse analysis.

191-196

Authors: Raj Kiran Doley

Women health is very crucial as they are considered to be the central and key person in the families. However, women are not very conscious about their health related issues, and always take these issues very lightly. These mindsets have to be changed by different communication interventions. Women have many elements which prevent them to consider their own personal health issues, like –shyness and hesitations, lack of health literacy, lack of awareness, lack of interest for interpersonal communications by the healthcare professionals, lack of proper health communication, to name a few. These complications can be mitigated with the help of properly drawn target based health communication strategies which can not only inform, but also influence the health behaviors of the women. Mainly the initiatives are to be taken by the programme or policy implementing agencies with the help of target audience, which will help bringing better health outcomes and significant social changes.

206-212

Authors: Abhinav Borbora

In 1991 India took the neoliberal turn and businesses have colluded to remove effective obstructions to more intense appropriation. Curbing the strength of class solidarity and reducing the worker to a condition of powerlessness has been pursued through a variety of norms. With the intensification of the neoliberal appropriation the worker is faced with even greater uncertainties and insecurities. The erstwhile class solidarities lose their effectiveness as new policy norms have sough to segregate and fragment worker’s solidarity thereby curbing its unitary potential from which it draws its efficacy. In this situation, communal politics effectively channelizes the apprehensions of the workers, absorbing them into caste and religious mouldings and thereafter politically motivates these solidarity groups, as evident in the case of the Bombay textile workers joining the Shiv Sena and the B.J.P.

220-234

Authors: Dr. Lucy K.L.Mandillah

There is a strong commitment to gender equality between women and men in international human rights law. Mass media should be committed to advance gender equality yet, millions of women around the world continue to experience discrimination. This paper evaluates the gender perspectives in the language of advertisements in print and electronic media in Kenya. A content analysis of the cultural gender roles and attributes is done focusing on adverts from three media genres: Television, Newspaper and one FM radio station. The Social Semiotic Theory of language is used to analyze and present data. Twenty adverts are purposively sampled for analysis. Descriptive statistics in form of frequency tables are used to analyze the data. The study reveals that there is a cultural gender bias against women in the language of advertising. It is found that in media advertisements, men are regarded higher in terms of roles and attributes than women. This paper should act as a guide to policy makers and advertising agencies for gender responsive planning, operations and practices in the Kenyan mass media. This will give women an opportunity to compete equally with men in education, social, professional, political, and economic sectors in order to achieve vision 2030 for sustainable development

245-256

Authors: Arghya Bose

Early in January 2015, India saw renowned Tamil writer Perumal Murugal declare the demise of his own authorial self following his forced submission to caste group protests against one of his recent novels. The administration, both in the state and in the centre kept themselves mute in spite of the massive protests that emerged, giving rise to perhaps the most popular political debate India has seen since her independence–the intolerance debate. The murder of Prof. Kalburgi on August 30 by Hindu activists, the Dadri incident of a Muslim family being attacked by a Hindu crowd in late September, followed by beef activism and beef ban in BJP ruled states like Maharashtra clearly brought forth 2015 as what The Indian Express termed as 'The year India discovered intolerance'. However, it has to be understood that the massive media coverage of one instance of religious intolerance in Dadri does not make India more intolerant than it had been before, at least in the post- independent era. Starting with tribal human rights issues just after independence to the governmental policies of “divide and please” with Operation Bluestar, the Shah Bano case and the verdicts on the Ram-Janmabhoomi dispute, India has undoubtedly, always been a place for racial and religious infighting – both implicit and explicit. The genius of Tagore had effectively foreseen this predicament back in the 1890s. In his words, “Her [India's] problem was the problem of the world in miniature. India is too vast in its area and too diverse in its races. It is many countries packed in one geographical receptacle”. Tagore understood the perils that the development of nationalism in such a predicament posed to what he called the Indian samaj. Post 1917, following the publication of his book Nationalism, Tagore emerged as a critique of the modern nation-state. So were Romain Ronnald from France and Albert Einstein from Germany. Furthermore, his three novels–Ghore Baire, Char Odhyay and Gora brings out his disregard about nationalism and his affinity towards higher non-sectarian humanist politics. This paper brings into bold relief how Tagore's concepts of nationalism and nation, merged with his notion of multiculturalism and samaj provides a ground for the elimination of the predicament of identity based modern nationalism in the Indian scenario. In attempting to do so, it will look into the Tagore's notion of nation, nation-state and nationalism as is presented in his lectures on nationalism in Japan and in the USA (May to September, 1916), and two of his novels which is very much built around these concepts as a political tool–Ghore Baire (The Home and The World) and Gora. The paper then elucidates on an alternative construct as was proposed by Tagore–the Samaj. Finally, the conclusion leads us to an analysis of whether the alternative construct of the Samaj would be an effective solution to the growing identity based militant nationalism in the sub-continent.

265-274

Authors: Sibin. K

Goods and Service Tax (GST) is one of the most crucial tax reforms in India which has been pending since a long, however the greatest tax reform since independence finally got the nod of the Parliament in its monsoon session of August 2016. The history of GST in India dates back to 2006 when then union finance minister Mr.P.Chidambaram mooted the idea of GST for the first time in the parliament while presenting his Budget for the financial year 2006-07 and it was proposed that it would be implemented from 1st April 2010, but due to political issues and conflicting interests of various stakeholders, it took six years then for the parliament to pass the GST bill. The GST is a comprehensive tax system that will subsume all indirect taxes of states and central governments and unified economy into a seamless national market. It is expected to iron out wrinkles of existing indirect tax system and play a vital role in the growth of the nation. Goods and service tax is a new story of VAT which gives a widespread setoff for input tax credit and subsuming many indirect taxes from state and national level. This paper is an outcome of an exploratory research carried out to understand the concept of Goods and Service Tax (GST) which will come in force in the country from 1st April 2017. The paper presents an overview of GST concept, explains its features along with its impact in the present tax scenario. The paper further explores the advantages and challenges that would be brought about by the execution of the Good and Service Tax.

286-304

Authors: Sumant Kumar Yadav

Given the resource-dependence of many populations in developing countries, natural environments and habitats are declining in these countries. Still, little empirical evidence has been brought to bear on the priority given to environmental issues among residents of developing countries. This study presents analyses of data collected from a field survey with 200 residents of Kirtipur, Kathmandu Nepal, with an aim of better understanding the public perception of environment and degree of seriousness possessed by them on different environmental threats. Our analyses reveal a moderate level of familiarity about the environmental issues and the knowledge of protecting environment with education consistently and significantly predicting higher level of environmental concerns. Still, substantially a great number of people believe in maintaining mutual relationship between human and environment and are more concerned and serious about issues which are locally more relevant. At the end, important policy implications are discussed.

311-318

Authors: Ruchira Gupta

This paper has been written on the basis of qualitative and quantitative data collected from secondary sources only and has discussed about the scenario of Women work participation in North 24-Parganas district, West Bengal. The objectives of the study are – 1.To understands the level and nature of the female workforce activity in this district, 2. To shed light on the trends of female work participation rate in the years 2001-11, 3.To find the nature of gender inequality (if any) in work participation in different occupational categories, 4.To identify the sectoral shifts of female workers into different occupational categories over time, and lastly 5. To find out the probable causes behind the present scenario. . It has been seen from the study that the work participation rate among males has remained higher than that of the females. A high percentage of the workforce both among male and female is engaged as regular workers in this district. The percentage of female workers engaged in non-agriculture and non-household activities is high which indicates that a high percentage of female workers in the district earn their livelihood from such economic activities which are basically non-rural in nature and no such sectoral shifting of women workers has been found into different occupational categories.

335-344

Authors: Dr.D.Elamparuthy

Quality of work life (QWL) contain progressively more gained gratitude, at the same time as employees want to be aware of esteemed at work for what they do and who they are. Literature on QWL is limited and several studies usually correlates by means of job satisfaction but the study on Quality of work life has associated with career connected factors. This experiential study was done to predict QWL in relation to career-related dimensions. The sample consists of 100 managers from the free Industrial zones in Pondicherry for both the multinational corporations (MNCs) and the small-medium industries (SMIs). The consequence indicates that three exogenous variables are significant: career satisfaction, career achievement, and career balance with in QWL.