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Through this book, I have tried to describe the mental & physical torture that a girl has to go through before getting the title of "Vaishya

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An oft-repeated dictum every time a company fails to replicate its past successes when introducing a new product or entering a new market is that one size does not fit all. Business gurus advise that every new situation, market and environment calls for a fresh approach and requires 'unlearning' what one might have learnt elsewhere, even if that had met with great success. While this statement may appear to be obvious, it is often quoted out o...

What supposedly troubles man the most is the fear of the unknown. However, what transcends that is a nightmare, where things are so incredibly frightening that you hope that it was just that - a nightmare - but there's a part of you which knows that it is a part of your existence. Nikhil, a young guy loaded with responsibilities, and his girlfriend, Saesha, are trapped in this unenviable situation. Eerily, their worst nightmare is essentially ...

Document from the year 2019 in the subject Energy Sciences, I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, course: Electrical Engineering, language: English, abstract: India's plan to ramp up solar power generation to 100 GW by 2022 is among the largest in the world. It aims to bring sustainable, clean, climate-friendly electricity to millions of India's people. The World Bank Group is moving to help India deliver on its unprecedented plans to scal...

Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

West Nile virus (WNV) is an arthropod borne virus of public health importance. WNV is a member of the genus Flavivirus and belongs to the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). WNV infection is a self- limited, non-fatal mild febrile illness but occasionally reported to cause encephalitis. The emergence of WNV in America and its impact on the health of humans, horses and birds have caused global concern about this virus. Serological testing is the...

This collection presses forward the agenda of rethinking the anthropological keywords of 'culture' and 'society, ' and towards an expansion of flexible yet rigorous ways of understanding the shifting terms of cultural tradition and political economy in the contemporary world."--Orin Starn, Duke University

Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for India and South Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India and a coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press. He is also a coeditor of The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspecti...

Examining the chronic, widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Akhil Gupta theorizes the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence.

Power electronic, is the art of converting electrical energy from one form to another in a clean, efficient, compact and robust manner for convenient utilization. It has found an important role in modern technology being core of power and energy control. Electric current by customer appliances draw from grid network flows through the impedances of the grid system and causes a voltage drop, which affect the voltage delivered to the domestic or ...

The solar Photovoltaic (PV) technology is gaining significant levels and is going to contribute a major share of total generated electricity in the coming years. PV technology is becoming a promising alternative source for fossil fuels. However, Power Quality (PQ) is the major concern that occurs between the grid and an end user. Any typical electrical distribution system exhibits a passive characteristic with respect to power flows when power...

This definitive study explores what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Based on fieldwork done in the village of Alipur in rural north India from the early 1980s through the 1990s, POSTCOLONIAL DEVELOPMENTS challenges the dichotomy of "developed" and "underdevelopoed", and offers a new model for future ethnographic scholarship. 15 photos.

This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of "the state." Focuses on the institutions, spaces, ideas, practices, and representations that constitute the "state."Promotes cultural and transnational approaches to the subject. Helps readers to make anthropologi...

This book assesses the changing nature of the state in the period after liberalization in India. It includes detailed analysis of its implications for important issues such as inequality, poverty, basic needs provision, citizenship, federalism and democratization.

This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to explore what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Focusing on local-level agricultural practices in India since the “green revolution” of the 1960s, Akhil Gupta challenges the dichotomy of “developed” and “underdeveloped, ” as well as the notion of a monolithic postcolonial condition. In so doing, he adv...

This collection presses forward the agenda of rethinking the anthropological keywords of 'culture' and 'society, ' and towards an expansion of flexible yet rigorous ways of understanding the shifting terms of cultural tradition and political economy in the contemporary world."--Orin Starn, Duke University