International Research Journal of Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Studies (IRJIMS)

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Authors: Arun Sarkar, Dr. Sujoy Kumar Mandal

Though Sri Sri Ramakrishna didn’t receive any formal education from school but he was a popular as well as great folk teacher. He conquered the mind of people by teaching them, through stories, songs, and religious advices. He believed that the ultimate aim of life is to experience god. From very poor people of rural Bengal to the educated urban youth, everybody ran to him to gain knowledge. Sri Sri Ramakrishna created the opportunity, so that people from various caste and religion can get education according to their needs and aspirations. He showed people the various ways so that they may get back their faith on god. For all this reasons, during 1870s he became the central figure of the renaissance for the educated intellectuals. Through different advice and sayings (aphorism) he circulated ‘truth’ which is very strong and not slippery. Sri Ramakrishna always tried to teach through his advice and sayings that human beings must know himself and by knowing himself he /she will also feel united with all other people, this is experiencing or witnessing god, which is also known as emancipation. The philosophy, religious advice, sayings, song, story and his enlightened thought have largely influenced the study of folklore. For this reason he is also considered as the connector between east and west as well as old and modern folklore. All these things are the topic of discussion in this paper. Key Words: Folklore, Folk education, Saying, Philosophical thought, Religious advice.

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Authors: Dr. Chanchal Kumar

The present study is an endeavor to explore unrevealed history of the colonial discourse in Burma, life in Burma before and after the British invasion and the exile of the Royal family of Burma. Amitav Ghosh is a contemporary Indian-English novelist like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Mukul Kesavan, Shashi Tharoor, Allen Sealy, Gita Mehta etc. Amitav Ghosh combines his professional and social skills with literary writing and creates works of arts, concerned with history, anthropology, Diaspora, nations, and civilization. The perspective of colonialism is always there as a guiding principle. Amitav Ghosh’s standing in the realms of literature is truly unparalleled and it seems that his concern with history is to provide an insight into human nature, human emotions, feelings and thoughts etc. In The Glass Palace, Ghosh attempts to claim the history of certain individuals, groups (families) that were dislocated in the wake of Burmese exodus in the last part of the 19th century as a result of British imperialism. The novel presents the accounts of unnecessary and forceful exile of the royal family of Burma. Amitav Ghosh has masterly recreated and retold the colonial history of India, Burma, and Malaya serving under the colonial regime. Ghosh primarily highlights the histories of teak and the rubber trade in Burma and Malaya, the Burmese Royal Family, the banishment of Burmese royal family, the British Indian army, the Indian National Army, Indian Freedom Struggle, Konbaung Dynasty in Mandalay, the Second World War, Indian colonial and postcolonial history etc. Key Words: History, Colonialism, Exile, Dislocation, Anthropology, Diaspora.

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Authors: Nijan Chandra Pegu, Dr. Chandan Hazarika

In India, looking at the different component of the rural economy, agriculture remains the mainstay of the rural sector. Agriculture in Assam is popularly known as rice culture, because it is dominated by rice as the most important cereal crop in terms of area, production and productivity. It played a leading role in improving food security in the state of Assam. Rice is consumed by about 90 percent of the state population and is grown over an area of 26.46 lakh hectares occupying around 74.25 percent of the cropped area. In Assam, agriculture largely depends on vagaries of nature and the instability in rice production. Agriculture instability has remained the subject of intense debate in the agricultural economics literature in India. While the need for increasing agricultural production or growth is obvious, the increasing in instability in agricultural production is considered adverse for several reasons. It raises the risk involve in farm productions and affects farmers income and decisions to adopt high paying technologies and make investments in farming. Instability in production affects the consumers and the price stability, and it increases variability of low-income households to market. This paper tries to find out the growth and instability of different rice and identify the sources of instability of production and productivity of rice in Assam. For these purpose different tools of analysis has been used. From the analysis of growth and instability in area, production and productivity, it was found that there existed a considerable variation in the production of different types of rice in the state. Key Words: Agriculture, Rice, area, Production, Productivity, growth, instability.

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Authors: A.N. Asadu

The quality of groundwater depends on various concentrations of physico-chemical and microbiological constituents. The water supply for human consumption is often directly sourced from groundwater without treatment and the level of pollution has become a cause of major concern, hence the basis of which this research work was carried out .The samples were analysed for their physico-chemical parameters, ions, heavy metals and microbial contents which including coliform bacteria and BOD. Standard Laboratory analysis was performed on these samples for these parameters. The results of these tests, its significance and possible implication were discussed and compared with the World Health Organisation standard to know the degree to which the water is potable and save for drinking. Each of the analyzed physico–chemical parameters, the cations, anions, heavy metal fell below the permissible limit of the W.H.O standard of 1982. The samples are generally acidic with the pH ranging from 4 to 6, consequently should be treated to achieve a neutral pH for potable use. The microbiological content of the water which includes total coliform count and biological oxygen demand (BOD) showed that samples from Oseri, Uvwiamughe, Idirima, Urhoboghara and Ogubane are contaminated with coliform bacteria with their coliform count ranging from 5 to 25/100ml). Also samples from Erhidi, Uvwiamughe, Abavo and Oguname have high BOD content. Thus water from these wells must be disinfected before drinking.