1 Globally, over a half million women die annually from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. In the developing world, postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) accounts for up to half of all maternal deaths. The wife of the Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan of India, Empress Mumtaz, had 14 children and died after her last childbirth of PPH in 1630. So great was the Emperor’s love for his wife that he built t...

In the present paper phylogenetic relationships of Muslim populations of Manipur and its genetic relations with Meitei and Naga tribe based on the morphogenetic traits have been attempted. Till date, no biological research has been reported regarding their phylogeny. Muslims with different castes shows differences in the distribution of these morpho-genetic traits, showing differences of ancest...

whose composition began at about the time of the Buddha (d. c. 400 BC). Sigalea describes the early medicine recoverable from Vedic and Upanisadic sources, its relationship with the nascent Indian philosophical schools, and the formation of the Sanskrit medical canon. In the following thirty chapters he provides a comprehensive account of Indian classical medicine, including the formation of th...

Secularism seems to require separation between religion and State. Regarding India, it would be better to speak of ‘equidistance’ between State and religious denominations. Nonetheless a ‘balanced treatment’ towards the religions leaves the question open as to what form that equidistance should take. This is the reason of some contradictions in today’s Indian social and political life. It is li...

' The first class, in the lustre of their star, perceive the mysteries of the external and the internal, and in their understanding and the breadth of their views fully comprehend both realms of thought and acknowledge to have received their spiritual power from the throne ?f His Majesty. 1 The second class pay less attention to the external world; but in the light of their hearts they acquire ...

physiography, climate, flora, fauna, anthropology, history, etc., came under the influence of European civilization at a relatively late date, but very material advances in almost all directions have resulted from this contact. Even in regard to this influence, however, the contrasts presented in different parts of the country bring out very vividly the vast nature of the extremely varied probl...