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Identity, Resistance And Empowerment
Vol. VII, No. 2 | December 2016
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Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
Identity, Resistance And Empowerment
ISSN: 0976-1861
Section: Contents
CONTENTS
Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
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IDENTITY, RESISTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT
| ISSN 0976-1861 | December 2016 | Vol. VII, No. 2 |
CONTENTS
Editorial Identity, Resistance and Empowerment George Thadathil, Punam Tripathi & Aju Kurian | V |
On Identity The 'Othering' of Women in Nonsense Literature: A Comparative Study of Sukumar Ray and Lewis Caroll Nima Doma Lama | 1 |
School Going Adolescents' Perception of Rabindrik Values Moumita Basak | 11 |
Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Comparative Study of Great Andamanese and Nicobarese Punam Tripathi | 21 |
Tribal Economy and Change: A Special Focus of Oraon, Munda and Santal Tribes in Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal Pamela Deb | 37 |
Psalms of Davidic Authorship and The Gitanjali of Tagore: Poets' Search for Meaning Peter Lepcha | 51 |
Consuming Culture: A Reading of Food Capitalism Anjana Joseph | 59 |
On Resistance Rumors and Communal Violence: A Comparative Analysis of Riots in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh (1980-2009) Sinjini Bhattacharya | 65 |
Role of Private Military Contractors (PMCs) and Their Implication for Humanity Lhamu Tshering Bhutia | 79 |
On Empowerment Factors Related to the Job Satisfaction: Perspective from School Teachers Rituparna Basak | 87 |
Dyslexia: Some Perspectives Nazia Bano | 103 |
Work Participation: A Gendered Analysis Kranti Dewan | 117 |
A Case Study of International Border-side Village and its Sense of Belongingness to the Country Urbi Ghosh & Sumitra Naha | 127 |
Book Reviews Anu Kapur: Made only in India: Goods with Geographical Indication By Ankita Chakraborty | 135 |
Walter Fernandes, George Thadathil and Bitopi Dutta: The Teesta on the Run: Development Induced Displacement in Sikkim 1975-2010 By Bipul Chhetri | 139 |
Pius V Thomas: Knowledge, Theorization and Rights: Negotiating the Connectives By Subro Saha | 143 |
Editorial
Editorial
George Thadathil, Punam Tripathi & Aju Kurian
George Thadathil is the Principal of Salesian College Sonada and Siliguri. He is the author of Vision from the Margin (2007) and has edited and co-edited number of books besides contributing to a number of journals and edited volumes on Philosophy, Literature and Social Science. He is the founder Director of Salesian Publications, Salesian Research Institute and Salesian Translation Centre.
Punam Tripathi MA, MPhil, PhD from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi has been a faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya (JNRM), Port Blair, A&N Islands and is currently a faculty at the Department of Geography, Salesian College, Siliguri Campus.
Aju Kurian is the Vice Principal and Campus Minister of the Salesian College Siliguri. He has done his Masters in Microbiology from St. Joseph’s College Bangalore (Autonomous) and MBA with specialization in International Trade Management from NIBM. He holds a bachelor's degree in Education (B.Ed.) from Kurushethra University. He has a number of years of experience in school administration. His areas of interests are Recombinant DNA Technology, Oncogenes, Philosophy, Education, and Religion.
Editorial
Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.v-viii | Page No: v-viii| Section: Editorial
Editorial: Identity, Resistance and Empowerment | v
Editorial:
Identity, Resistance and Empowerment
George Thadathil is the Principal of Salesian College Sonada and Siliguri. He is the author of Vision from the Margin (2007) and has edited and co-edited number of books besides contributing to a number of journals and edited volumes on Philosophy, Literature and Social Science. He is the founder Director of Salesian Publications, Salesian Research Institute and Salesian Translation Centre.
Punam Tripathi MA, MPhil, PhD from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi has been a faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya (JNRM), Port Blair, A&N Islands and is currently a faculty at the Department of Geography, Salesian College, Siliguri Campus.
Aju Kurian is the Vice Principal and Campus Minister of the Salesian College Siliguri. He has done his Masters in Microbiology from St. Joseph’s College Bangalore (Autonomous) and MBA with specialization in International Trade Management from NIBM. He holds a bachelor's degree in Education (B.Ed.) from Kurushethra University. He has a number of years of experience in school administration. His areas of interests are Recombinant DNA Technology, Oncogenes, Philosophy, Education, and Religion.
Identity, Resistance and Empowerment are three essential concepts which string the beads of life. Empowerment necessarily draws nourishment from identity; and the resistance to recognise or respect identities is what gives way to crises in societies; it in turn calls for strategies of empowerment. The sequence of the three words is also worthy of note. The word resistance located between identity and empowerment refers to resistance that can be overcome by empowerment if propelled by identity. A standalone of any of these trios of concepts would therefore require other configurations to be meaningful. Sociologists and historians, political scientists and feminists, litterateurs and economists can draw attention to varied manifestations of the relationship between identity, resistance and empowerment. It is these that the present Volume (VII/ 2) of the Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Science has gathered to address. Adopting the rubric of the theme Identity, Resistance and Empowerment the journal puts forth a series of 12 articles which delve on diverse issues that reflect and research on this theme.
Articles
On Identity
The ‘Othering’ of Women in Nonsense Literature: A Comparative Study of Sukumar Ray and Lewis Caroll
Nima Doma Lama
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.1-10 | Page No: 01-10| Section: Article
The ‘Othering’ of Women in Nonsense Literature: A Comparative Study of Sukumar Ray and Lewis Caroll | 3
The ‘Othering’ of Women in Nonsense Literature: A Comparative Study of Sukumar Ray and Lewis Caroll
Nima Doma Lama is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Salesian College, Sonada. Her areas of interests are feminist studies, gender and sexuality and post-colonial writing.
Abstract
The article focuses on nonsense literature, a genre never taken seriously, but, close analysis of the same has led to surfacing of serious issues and in this case, the representation of women, taking two important writers - Sukumar Ray and Lewis Caroll - belonging to the same age into perspective. The absence or presence of women in their works provide a scope for feminst criticism and a critique of gender in the contemporary society. The article ultimately brings out the common theme of “othering” of women in colonial India as well as in Victorian England thereby creating a link between the two writers.
Keywords: Nonsense Literature, Othering, Sukumar Ray, Lewis Caroll
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School Going Adolescents’ Perception of Rabindrik Values
Moumita Basak
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.11-20 | Page No: 11-20| Section: Article
School Going Adolescents Perception of Rabindrik Values | 11
School Going Adolescents Perception of Rabindrik Values
Moumita Basak is an Assistant Professor in psychology at Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College. Her research interests focus on cognitive psychology. She had earlier taught at Department of Psychology, Salesian College Siliguri Campus, during which she undertook this research.
Abstract
Rabindranath Tagore has left an indelible mark on Indian society as a whole, but more so for the Bengal culture. His music has been inspirational in showing the importance of human values for living a happy life. In line with this, 28 values were extracted from his songs called Rabindra Sangeet. These 28 values were incorporated into two separate sub categories consisting of 14 values each. The objective of the study was to find out which values were given importance by the adolescent population. The results revealed that there exists a significant difference in the values incorporated by males and females. They also differed in the degree to which they gave importance to the various rabindrik values.
Keywords: Rabindrik Values, Path-Oriented Values, Goal-Oriented Values, School Going Adolescents, Gender Differences
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Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Comparative Study of Great Andamanese and Nicobarese
Punam Tripathi
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.21-36 | Page No: 21-36| Section: Article
Tribes of Andaman & Nicobar Islands: A Comparative Study of Great Andamanese and Nicobarese | 21
Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands a Comparative Study of Great Andamanese and Nicobarese
Punam Tripathi MA, MPhil, PhD from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi has been a faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru Rajkeeya Mahavidyalaya (JNRM), Port Blair, A&N Islands and is currently a faculty at the Department of Geography, Salesian College, Siliguri Campus.
Abstract
Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands have similar tectonic history, geology, climate, soil and natural vegetation, yet the two tribes of both islands differ in their social and cultural practices. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Great Andamanese were the dominant tribe of the Andaman Islands whereas the Nicobarese dominated the Nicobar Islands. Taking these two tribes as the representative of their respective islands, the paper will evaluate the similarities and differences between the tribes of Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands.
Keywords: Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Great Andamanese, Nicobarese, Physical Environment
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Tribal Economy and Change: A Special Focus of Oraon, Munda and Santal Tribes in Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal
Pamela Deb
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.37-50 | Page No: 37-50| Section: Article
Tribal Economy and Change: A Special Focus on Oraon Munda and Santal Tribes in Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal | 37
Tribal Economy and Change: A Special Focus on Oraon, Munda and Santal Tribes in Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal
Pamela Deb is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Salesian College, Siliguri Campus. Her areas of interest are tribal studies, Climate change and its impact and sustainable development.
Abstract
The study focuses on the economy of the three major tribes of Jalpaiguri District, West Bengal. They are Oraon, Munda and Santal. According to 2011 census, three of them comprise 67.44 percent of the total Scheduled Tribe population of the district. All these tribes were brought in the last half of 19th century and the first half 20th century by the British to mainly work as labourers in the newly formed tea gardens, railways and in the forests of this region. Tribes from Santal Parganas were brought to settle as agriculturists in this district. In the later stages, after the British left this region, only the ownership of the tea gardens changed. Till now, the major concentration of these tribes is found in the tea garden villages. However, some of them are engaged in agricultural activities outside the tea garden area and others are seen in forest region. The paper seeks to understand the change in the economy of these tribes in spatio-temporal context. The article developed out of extensive fieldwork and based on a primary data interview schedule. For collecting the primary data, 650 households were chosen from all the 13 blocks of the district on the basis of random stratified sampling. The temporal variation of the economy is shown for a period of 30 years. The techniques followed here are: simple cross tabulation and composite index based on Friedman’s test by rank.
Keywords: Hinduization, Economic change, Friedman’s test by rank, Oraon, Munda, Santal
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Psalms of Davidic Authorship and The Gitanjali of Tagore: Poets’ Search for Meaning
Peter Lepcha
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.51-58 | Page No: 51-58| Section: Article
Psalms of Davidic Authorship and the Gitanjali of Tagore: Poets’ Search for Meaning | 51
Psalms of Davidic Authorship1 and the Gitanjali of Tagore: Poets’ Search for Meaning
Peter Lepcha is the Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Campus Co-ordinator of the day session, Salesian College Siliguri Campus. He has been the Editorial Assistant for Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has participated and presented papers in national and international seminars and conferences. His areas of interests are Translation Literature, Romantic Literature, Apologetics and Christian Theology.
Abstract
Psalms are Hebrew poems which have been translated in over five hundred languages and have become an important part of the prayer recitals of the Judaeo-Christian liturgical expressions. There are various authors and composers of the psalms and King David is one of the chief authors of the psalms. Davidic psalms have been fascinating to the psalmists and poets, and therefore have been an important part of prayer recitals in the psalter. The Gitanjali of Rabindranath Tagore on the other hand, has a universal appeal as an anthology of poems to the universal readership. Reading these poems of David and Tagore from the perspective of finding meaning in the existential experiences of day to day life as we understand from Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, is the sole intent of this paper. Purpose and meaning can keep one going from situation to situation despite unpleasantness the experiences of the authors delineated in their texts lead one to understand how they preserved the momentum in life. The poems they wrote became a ways to find meaning and connect with the divine.
Keywords: Psalms, The Gitanjali, Divine, Meaning, Existence
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Consuming Culture: A Reading of Food Capitalism
Anjana Joseph
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.59-64 | Page No: 59-64| Section: Article
Consuming Culture: A Reading of Food Capitalism | 59
Consuming Culture: A Reading of Food Capitalism
Anjana Treesa Joseph is an MPhil student in the English department at the University of Calicut. Her research interes lies in the area of cultural studies with food culture as discourse and focuses on the cuisine integrations along the Malabar coast of Kerala.
Abstract
Capitalism has the unique ability to adapt itself through beef bans and vegetarianism. From vegetarian Big Mac’s at MacDonald’s to fat free ‘Quaker Oats’, Indian food industry has much to owe Capitalism and its claim to the triumph of the will. This paper looks at how each aluminium foil we open is an invitation for the specter of Capitalist ideology to come possess us; in the sense of a liberating ‘neutral food for a caste-run India’. The paper critiques the notion of Capitalism that creates a modern all-inclusive space in relation to food capitalism, and thus brings to light the radical stratagem of the liberation of culture and caste from themselves.
Keywords: Food Capitalism, Modernity, Caste, Caste-free food, Vegetarianism
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On Resistance
Rumors and Communal Violence: A Comparative Analysis of Riots in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh (1980-2009)
Sinjini Bhattacharya
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.65-78 | Page No: 67-78| Section: Article
Rumors and Communal Violence: An Analysis of Communal Violence in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh (1980-2009)
Sinjini Bhattacharya is a senior PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad, Department of Political Science. Her areas of interest include Communal Politics, Identity Politics, Gender and Violence and Conflict Transformation. She is currently working on her Doctoral Thesis titled “Civil Society Organization’s engagement in Communal Harmony Building and Religious Conflict Resolution in India”. She was awarded the ICSSR Fellowship to conduct her Doctoral Work.
Abstract
Communal violence is a multilayered process which involves a complex interplay of various factors. Scholars have tried explaining the phenomenon of communal violence as it plays out in India concentrating on various factors. Most scholars agree that political parties often use religion, economic competition, patron-client relations to foment communal tension in order to gain electoral success. Various factors such as party politics, electoral politics, local administrations and police, economic competition and caste politics can be identified as contributing factors and actors in incidents of communal violence. However one factor which had received very little attention in the context of India is the role rumors play during incidents of communal violence. This paper uses works of Radhika Subramaniam and Terry Ann Knopf to explain that rumors can play a very important role in fomenting communal tension.1 Feeding on preexisting distrust and with the help of media rumors can easily become one of the most important factors which lead to vicious communal violence. Before one looks into rumors, a brief analysis of the scholarship on communal violence will help us form a better understanding of the process in itself.
Keywords: Communal Violence, Rumours, Political Parties, Caste Politics, Competition
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Role of Private Military Contractors (PMCs) and Their Implication for Humanity
Lhamu Tshering Bhutia
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.79-86 | Page No: 79-86| Section: Article
The Role of Private Military Contractors and their Impact on Humnaiy | 79
The Role of Private Military Contractors and their Impact on Humanity
Lhamu Bhutia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Salesian College, Siliguri Campus. Her research interest focuses on Human Rights.
Abstract
The present paper tries to identify the use of force by Private military contractors in inter-national politics and how transformation of the power to the non-state actors has led to humanitarian abuses. For the last two decades deployment of private military contractors has increased tremendously in conflict ridden countries.1 Traditionally the use of force was the realm only of the state but the current scenario shows that not only the state but even the non-state actors are involved in using force.
Keywords: Private Military Contractors, State Non-state actors, Human Rights, Peace-keeping Transparency Violation.
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On Empowerment
Factors Related to the Job Satisfaction: Perspective from School Teachers
Rituparna Basak
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.87-102 | Page No: 87-102| Section: Article
Factors Related to the Job Satisfaction: Perspectives from the School Teachers | 89
Factors Related to the Job Satisfaction: Perspectives from School Teachers
Rituparna Basak is an Assistant Professor and HOD of the Department of Psychology at Muralidhar Girls’ College, Kolkata. She has many publications in different referred national and international journals. She had earlier taught at Depart ment of Psychology, Salesian College Siliguri Campus, during which she undertook this research.
Abstract
A teacher is a yardstick that measures the achievements and aspirations of the nation. A teacher is a dynamic force of the school. It needs no description that the teacher is the pivot of any educational system of the younger students. On her rests the failure or the success of the system. The purpose of this study is to identify the various job-related factors that affect the school teacher’s satisfaction with their job. Different job satisfaction questionnaire had been used in different studies to measure different dimensions of job satisfaction of teachers. Results showed that in some studies female teachers are more satisfied with job than male teachers and in other studies it was found that male teachers were more satisfied with jobs. Job satisfaction depends on many factors like personality, locus of control, school environment and self-efficacy and many demographic factors. It is found that teachers who have high self-efficacy belief to accomplish a task, who have internal locus of control and who are happy with the environment where they work are more satisfied with job. It has also been found that teachers who have good relation with colleagues and students, who are happy with their work and satisfied with their status, pay and security, are more satisfied with their job.
Keywords: Job Satisfaction, School Teachers, Extrinsic/Intrinsic Factors/ Motivation
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Dyslexia: Some Perspectives
Nazia Bano
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.103-116 | Page No: 103-116| Section: Article
Dyslexia: Some Perspectives | 103
Dyslexia: Some Perspectives
Nazia Bano was formerly Assistant Professor in the Department of Education, Salesian College Siliguri Campus. Her research interests include disability studies, inclusive education and educational guidance and counseling.
Abstract
Learning disability is one of the major problems prevalent worldwide owing to which many affected children are deprived of the basic opportunities of life. Much has been done, with motives of alleviating the problems associated with it, by researchers engaged in understanding the nature of the problem. However, most of the efforts have been made in conceptualizing the problem rather than formulating intervention procedures that are more empirical, scientific and practically applicable as remedial measures. This paper makes an in-depth analysis of dyslexia as a particular form of learning disability and the gap within its fundamental and applied forms. Reading disability, also referred to as dyslexia, is the inability to read or comprehend and is a major obstacle to learning amongst many children. It has long term educational, social and economic consequences. The analysis however is not simply focussed on understanding the nature of the disability but assesses, as a secondary research, available methods of the identification, assessment, remedial measures and their efficacy in dealing with the complexities of the problem in a scientific and an applicable way.
Keywords: Learning Disability, Dyslexia, Phonological Assessment, Miscue Analysis, Orton Gillingham Method.
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Work Participation: A Gendered Analysis
Kranti Dewan
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.117-126 | Page No: 117-126| Section: Article
Work Participation: A Gendered Analysis | 117
Work Participation: A Gendered Analysis
Kranti Dewan MA, Mphil, UGC-NET, is a PhD research scholar in the Department of Economics, Sikkim University. She has served as student counselor in various institutes before she joined Salesian College, Siliguri Campus as faculty of economics. Her broad area of research is gender economics.
Abstract
Women were treated as ‘second class citizens’ during the Victorian age in the United Kingdom and patriarchal bias was seen in the working class theoreticians in the 19th century. To counter the prejudice and bias, the world witnessed waves of feminist movements which advocated restoring women’s rights and gender equality for women in all walks of life. The present article explores the various theories that got debated simultaneously which helped in the growth of gender sensitization. It tries to capture that early development theorist’s incorporated gender as a mere statistics into the developmental framework of the nation. It was found that this kind of approach was not enough to reduce gendered differences. In India, the overall work participation was highly skewed in favour of the males. Hence the article is an attempt to understand facts of the various feminist movements in India and the condition of the work force in a gendered analysis framework.
Keywords: Gender, Feminist Movement in India, Labour Participation, Work Force Sex Ratio, Rights
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A Case Study of International Border-side Village and its Sense of Belongingness to the Country
Urbi Ghosh & Sumitra Naha
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Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.127-134 | Page No: 127-134| Section: ArticleA Case Study of International Border-side Village and its Sense of Belongingness to the Country | 127
A Case Study of International Border-Side Village and its Sense of Belongingness to the Country
Urbi Ghosh HOD and Asst. Professor of Dept. of Mass Communication and Journalism of Salesian College, Siliguri. She has completed her Ph.D degree from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. She has presented papers in National and International conferences.
Sumitra Naha
Abstract
The border villages of Darjeeling district suffer from many socio-economic and political challenges. These challenges can take a natural toll on the sense of belongingness towards the nation among inhabitants. The present paper takes the same as hypothesis and explores the possibility and extent of threat to both trans-generational and contemporary ideas and practices of national integration arising from localized issues or events that test the core ideals of national identity and integrationist ethos. Taking up one hamlet as sample from the research universe, an attempt has been made to understand the impact of socio-economic deprivation upon the sense of belongingness among its inhabitants towards the nation, in this case, India. The case study has been supplemented through a systematic sampling survey of the villagers and subsequent analysis to arrive at conclusive findings.
Keywords: Perception, Belongingness, Nation, Border, Village
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Book Reviews
Anu Kapur: Made only in India: Goods with Geographical Indication
By Ankita Chakraborty
Book Reviews
Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.135-138 | Page No: 135-138| Section: Book Reviews
Book Reviews: Made Only in India: Goods with Geographical Indications | 135
Book Reviews
Made Only in India: Goods with Geographical Indications by Anu Kapur, Routledge India, Oxon, 2015, 272 pages, INR 895.00, ISBN. 978-1-138-66805-8.
Ankita Chakraborty is a research student from Department of Geography, University of Delhi and has submitted her M.Phil on Re-inventing the Traditional Handloom Saree Heritage of Bengal: Studying the Role of Geographical Indications, in November 2016
Geographical Indications is perhaps the only term after Geographical Information System (GIS), which uses the word ‘Geography’ in true sense, providing a unique identity to the goods originating from a specific geographical locality. The Geographical Indications (GI) Act, the only Act among others beholds the essence of the discipline as “an indication which identifies such goods as agricultural goods, natural goods or manufactured goods as originating, or manufactured in the territory of a country, or a region or locality in that territory, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of such goods is essentially attributable to its geographical origin……”1
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Walter Fernandes, George Thadathil and Bitopi Dutta: The Teesta on the Run: Development Induced Displacement in Sikkim 1975-2010
By Bipul Chhetri
Book Reviews
Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.139-142 | Page No: 139-142| Section: Book Reviews
Book Reviews: The Teesta on the Run: Development-Induced Displacement in Sikkim 1975-2010 | 139
Book Reviews
The Teesta on the Run: Development-Induced Displacement in Sikkim 1975-2010, by Walter Fernandes, George Thadathil & Bitopi Dutta, co. published by North Eastern Social Research Centre, Guwahati & Salesian College Publication, Siliguri, 2016, 352 pages, INR 600.00, ISBN. 978-99-82216-13-1
Bipul Chhetri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Salesian College Siliguri Campus. He is also pursuing his PhD from Sikkim University. His area of interest is mountain ecosystem and livelihood.
Displacement has always been the other face of development. The growth of infrastructural facilities in the name of development has often taken place at the cost of livelihoods of the people especially the poorer section of the society. These poor are at times deprived of their basic rights in terms of getting the compensation for the land that they lose, the family that suffer, the challenges that they come across. Monetary compensation that they receive often does not help them to regenerate their livelihood. The developmental projects that are built at the cost of peoples’ livelihood sometimes fail to resettle and compensate them. Rehabilitation of this voiceless community is often neglected. The consequences that follow after the displacement of these poor are more miserable. The failure of such developmental projects to rehabilitate these poor makes them more vulnerable to various forms of exploitation.
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Pius V Thomas: Knowledge,Theorization and Rights: Negotiating the Connectives
By Subro Saha
Book Reviews
Salesian Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, Vol. VII, No. 2 (December 2016)
ISSN: 0976-1861 | DOI: 10.51818/SJHSS.07.2016.143-146 | Page No: 143-146| Section: Book Reviews
Book Reviews: Knowledge, Theorization and Rights: Negotiating the Connectives | 143
Book Reviews
Knowledge, Theorization and Rights: Negotiating the Connectives by Pius V Thomas (Eds.), Salesian College Publication, Siliguri-West Bengal, 2015, 261 pages, INR 600.00, ISBN 978-93-82216-12-4.
Subro Saha is an Assistant Professor of English Department of Salesian College, Siliguri. He was completed his M. Phil degree from Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. His areas of interest include materiality, philosophy of science, modernity, sexuality studies, post-structuralism among others.
In an age where ‘doubt’ has assumed an almost enabling status, the questions of identity, culture, roots, rights, justice and belongingness, seem to continuously call for newer ways of re-consideration. The idea of ‘faith’ and ‘belief’2 had always been crucial in terms of linking such questions with the idea of existence itself. Besides, the idea of existence further remains linked with the concept of presence which itself determines the realm of the ‘real’. However, what happens to the idea of existence when the concepts of ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ itself face a crisis in terms of its own functional existence? The question of doubt has always haunted the realms of ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ forcing them, in different ages, to reconsider and alter its definitional and functional frameworks. In other words, it can be said that it has always been ‘doubt’ that has enabled ‘faith’ to modify and represent itself in newer ways. However, what happens to the concept of ‘faith’ in an age of make-belief only, an age threatening with dystopic visions of cyborgs, bio-wars, genetic transmutations and other technological turns that has brought the very concept of ‘real’ under the realm of doubt. In this age, then, has ‘doubt’ acquired the role of the decisive signifier shaping, affecting and even determining the concept of existence? Then, what about the questions of identity, culture, roots, rights, justice and belongingness? Have these concepts ceased to operate as ‘real’? Have we lost then any concept of ‘ground’ for conceptualization, and has any claim to knowledge lost its authenticity? Questions like these continuously haunt our concept of the present, and thus problematize any attempt to search for solutions marked by the question: what is to be done?
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