This paper is a historiographical review of selected significant scholarship on widowhood in India. Most important conclusion that the difference experiences India premised upon fact high-caste customs and cultural codes has created disadvantageous gender equation for women. Nineteenth century legal-reformist debates around sati, widow remarriage age consent were templates which deep anxieties ...

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This paper analyzes ambivalent representation of India in William Hodges' Travels India. The exploration politics behind such can be interesting area to investigate. writer has tried portray the contradiction between ruins, antiquity, and depopulated habitation on one hand; modification, cultivation, populated habitation, other. horrendous act sati been depicted a smart way as Hodges does not c...

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the main objective of the present study was to determine the association between completed suicides and season of the year in iran during 2006-2010.data on completed suicides were collected by questionnaires field out by the family members of the victims in legal medicine centers throughout the country over the period from 2006 to 2010. the maximum number of completed suicides (380) was observe...

Abstract Background Thermal injuries are one of the commonest causes unnatural deaths in females developing countries. However, there is a lack adequate research into social and psychological aspects that lead to such deaths. The suicidal death due immolation by fire scourge on Indian society not being adequately addressed all its aspects. There an attempt this study bring awareness population ...

Suicide is a complex phenomenon with multiple diverse causes. It is obvious that if the media give rewards to the suicides directly or indirectly, they will have more copycat effect. It seems that political means in the mainstream media, particularly in the Western world overshadow public health- especially mental health- issues. Selection of a Tunisian fruit vendor who set himself on fire in a...

BACKGROUND Suicide is an important cause of death in India but estimated suicide rates based on data from India's National Crime Records Bureau are unreliable. AIM Systematically review existing literature on suicide and the factors associated with suicide in India. METHODS PubMed, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Global Health, Google Scholar and IndMED were searched using appropriate search terms. The a...

BACKGROUND Self-inflicted burn injuries carry considerable mortality and morbidity among otherwise fit young individuals. This study assessed the epidemiologic pattern and outcome of these injuries in a burn care facility in Pakistan. METHODS The study was carried out at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Burn Care Centre in Islamabad over a period of 2 years. It included all adult...