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All recruits reporting to a regimental centre between 01 Jan 98 to 31 Mar 99 (n=1049), were administered a questionnaire about their own and their family's tobacco use practices. The prevalence of smoking among recruits was 43%, while that of smokeless tobacco use was 34.1%. There was a significant association between parental tobacco use and peer pressure on the tobacco habits of recruits. Knowledge about harmful effects of tobacco use did have a role in restraining the tobacco habit among recruits.

A cross-sectional study to find out the knowledge, attitudes beliefs and certain behaviours in relation to HIV/AIDS among military recruits in a regimental centre was carried out in two stages. In the first stage all recruits reporting to a regimental centre between January-December 97, (n=913), were given a closed questionnaire to be completed anonymously. In the second stage 236 recruits were randomly selected for more detailed analysis for studying relationship of factors such as urban/rural residence, age and education with knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in relation to AIDS. Though there was a fairly good awareness of sexual routes of transmission only 38.88% of recruits were aware of parenteral routes of transmission. Only 47.75% of the recruits were aware of healthy carriers or asymptomatic transmission. Much gap between knowledge and practice of condom use was observed. About 17% of the recruits believed that AIDS is curable and 21.58% believed it to be non-fatal. Sociodemographic factors like urban/rural residence, age and education had little bearing on knowledge, attitudes and behaviour.

A retrospective cross-sectional study among recruits and troops stationed in Lucknow was carried out for the period 1991-95, to detect the microfilaraemia rate among them, with the aim to define high risk groups. Out of 8859 recruits screened in the five year period 151 (1.7%) were positive for microfilaria (MF), whereas out of 13,131 serving soldiers 88 (0.67%) were positive (Relative risk 2.54, 95% CI between 1.96 and 3.30). Only 0.47 per cent of recruits and 0.26 per cent of soldiers from non endemic states were found positive for MF which highlights the need to review the policy of indiscriminate mass screening of soldiers in military stations for microfilaraemia.

Acknowledgement -- An approach to build analytics capability to solve business problems -- Introduction: the practice of analytics and the associated "conundrum" -- Where to begin : managing organization's data inventory for effective decision support -- Useful approaches to mining information : building intuition of tools -- Resolving business problems with (predictive analytics) : scoping the objectives -- Communicating analytical output: numbers or narratives -- Analysis to analytics : building the infrastructure -- The analytic "state of affairs" -- Perspectives on knowledge process adoption in emerging economies -- Appendix 1 Railroad cleaning service (case) -- Appendix 2 ABV tyre company (case) -- Appendix 3 Marketing mix modelling -- Appendix 3a note on regression models -- Appendix 4 Logit modelling : a note -- Appendix 5 Interview guide for our industry research -- Appendix 6 Select cases of analytics adoption in Indian organizations -- About the authors

Psychosocial factors determining the choice of health facility in 30 cases of epilepsy attending the psychiatric outpatient department (OPD) of a teaching (referral) hospital in India were studied. The majority of those who chose indigenous healers as their first contact treatment facility did so on the decision of the family. A belief in the supernatural causation of epilepsy combined with family decision was associated with the choice of indigenous health facility. Belief in the physical cause of epilepsy and the participation of social network in decision making were, on the other hand, closely associated with the choice of practitioners of modern medicine. The time-lag between onset of illness and first contact for treatment was short when indigenous healers were consulted first, however these patients usually took a long time to reach the referral centre when they passed through the indigenous healers.

The British Crown's 1813 legalization of Christian evangelism among its Indian subjects set off a storm of criticism in Bengal. Mou Banerjee shows that Hindu and Muslim detractors energetically marginalized converts, in the process developing ideals that cemented the connection between political and communal identity on the subcontinent.

Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book explores the fascination of centenarians' autobiographies for humanites research. It can be argued that the growing presence of centenarians' autobiographies on book markets across the globe may by rooted in the public's desire for positive images of aging, in contrast to the image of inevitable decay.

India's Look East policy opened up a new strategic dimension to Indian foreign policy. India had significant cultural and diplomatic linkages with the Southeast Asian nations. But India's non-aligned diplomatic position created a distance between India and Southeast Asia. The adoption of the Look East Policy led to the establishment of economic and strategic ties with Southeast Asia. The policy was revised in the form of the Act East Policy in 2015 in the face of China's increasing influence in South and Southeast Asia which posed a threat to India's security. Moreover the Sino-Pakistan liaison necessitated the strengthening of India-Southeast Asia relations. This book is an attempt to trace the development of the Look East Policy, its transition into Act East Policy and its aftermath. These changing parameters will show the decisive impacts on the transformative phases of India's foreign policy.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Contribitors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Caste and Philosophy -- 1 Systems of Indian philosophy for and against caste (Pradeep P. Gokhale) -- 2 Caste and temporality in early modern nyaya philosophy (Samuel Wright) -- 3 The curious career of shunya through the ages (Prathama Banerjee) -- 4 Caste and dissent in Tamil textual traditions (S. Gunasekaran) -- Part 2 Caste and Heterodoxy -- 5 Brahma.as and Brahmanism in the Buddhist Jatakas (Chandrabhan P. Yadav) -- 6 Dissent in the Vajrasuci and the Vajrasucy-Upani.ad (Meera Visvanathan) -- 7 Iyothee Thassar's Buddha and civilizational memory ( Dickens Leonard) -- Part 3 Legends and Stories -- 8 The Mata.ga King Trisa.ku and history from below (Kanad Sinha) -- 9 Antaja kings in mleccha land (Samyak Ghosh) -- 10 Matua dharma and the final avatar: Understanding anti-caste thought in Sree Sree HariLilamrita ( Praskanva Sinharay) -- Part 4 Views from the Outside? -- 11 Translating caste in Perso-Arabic texts (Md. Sajjad Alam Rizvi) -- 12 From Batuta to Makhdum: Savarna habitus, corporeal shields and caste acoustics on the Malabar Coast (P. K. Yasser Araf -- 13 The caste subconscious and the dialectical logic of Sharad Patil (Rahul Sarwate) -- Part 5 Body and Caste -- 14 Rewriting life: Caste, body and time in Tulsi Ram's Murdahiya (Shivani Kapoor) -- 15 Drawing caste to bind the nation (Prabhat Kumar) -- Index.

This book focuses on Sikh communities in east and northeast India. It studies settlements in Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Meghalaya, and Manipur to understand the Indian Sikhs through the lens of their dispersal to the plains and hills far from Punjab. Drawing on robust historical and ethnographic sources such as official documents, media accounts, memoirs, and reports produced by local Sikh institutions, the author studies the social composition of the immigrants and surveys the extent of their success in retaining their community identity and recreating their memories of home at their new locations. He uses a nuanced notion of the internal diaspora to look at the complex relationships between home, host, and community.As an important addition to the study of Sikhism, this book fills a significant gap and widens the frontiers of Sikh studies. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, history, migration and diaspora studies, religion, especially Sikh studies, cultural studies, as well as the Sikh diaspora worldwide

"This book systematically analyses state responses towards Maoism in India and studies the role of state policies in prolonging conflict. It looks at how the structural maladies that once gave rise to conflict have now found a place in the government responses meant to address it. The book studies the socio-political conditions of Adivasis and lower caste groups that make up large sections of the cadre and highlights the exclusionary nature of the Indian political landscape. It discusses various themes such as state legitimacy, the political landscape through exclusion, the agency of Maoist foot soldiers, limitations of government welfare responses, and the idea of the marginalized in India. Rich in empirical data, the book will be useful for scholars and researchers of development studies, political studies, political sociology, minority studies, exclusion studies, sociology, and social anthropology. It will also be of interest to policymakers"--