The East India Company’sFarmān, 1622‒1747

Traditional Healing Practices in North East India

Northeastern region of the India comprising states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura still follow the age old traditional healing systems based on Ayurveda, Unani and other allied practices. Each state is having its own dialect, plant and animal resources for meeting out the requirement of community including health facilities. They all adapt...

Unbalanced Agricultural Development in North-east India

Dapsone compliance in North-east India.

Urine samples were collected from male staff memb ers o f the hospital who were not t aking dapsone , from male in-patients 2 4-h after their previous daily supervised dose of 1 00 mg dapsone and from male out-patients at the tim e of their visit to collect a further stock of 1 00 mg dapsone tablets for daily self­ administration . A small crystal o f thymol was then added to each urine sample ...

Fisherwomen of the East Coastal India: A Study

This article is a hypothetical study of fisherwomen fromthe Coastal areas of West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Naduto highlight social, economic, political,education and health related issues. Fishing is a major industry in coastal states of India but still the coastal fishworkers have been one of the most vulnerable groups among the poor in India. Fisheries are an important sector...

Trading Knowledge : the East India Company’s Elephants in India and Britain*

A B S T R ACT. During the East India Company’s rule of India, Britons observed the pervasiveness of elephants in local modes of warfare, hunting, trade, and religious symbolism. The colonizers appropriated this knowledge about elephants : for instance, in the taking-over of Mughal trade routes or Tipu Sultan’s stables. What Indians knew about the elephant also fed into a metropolitan culture of...