Rigvedic All-Inclusiveness
-- N Kazanas
The main purpose of the present paper is to throw light on the Sufis’ role not only as religious ‘preachers’, but also as ‘healers’. As healers, Sufis had been able to mobilize the peasantry and rural men under their fold. The present paper aims at discussing how the Mughal tradition of unani medicine was followed by the Sufis, leading to great material value in social life.
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Megalithic Culture of South India:
From ‘Nomadism’ to ‘Sedentism’
-- Rajeev Kumar
When North India went through the Chalcolithic period, it was the phase of Iron Age culture in South India. The Iron Age predated the Sangam Age; however the later part of Iron Age culture moved in tandem with the Sangam age and is referred to as the Megalithic culture in the Deccan and South India. The Megalithic people of South India practised a mixed economy based on agro-pastoral production. A combination of specialized strategies, i.e., agriculture and cattle pastoralism was adopted at societal scale of production. A wide variety of shapes in different fabrics and the technical efficiency evidenced in the preparation of ceramics hint probably at a professional class of potters and pottery making as one of the important economic activities. However, hunting-gathering practices are also evidenced by archaeological tool remains and paintings of that period. Thus, a marked division between ‘nomadism’ and ‘sedentism’ cannot be made in South Indian case. Rather it had reached a transitory phase from where settled life style and societies emerged.
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Women and Healthcare: Myths and Facts
-- Moumita Chakraborti
This paper attempts to scan the impact of myth over the women’s mind and body in Bengal during the colonial regime as well as its genesis in the present day.
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Women’s Activism and the New Family
Code Reforms in Morocco
-- Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi
Ever since its inception in the mid-1940s, the Moroccan feminist movement has evolved around the family law code. The post-independence family law denied the women basic rights, fuelling disappointment and anger among the female intellectual elite (journalists, writers, politicians and activists). Legal rights have always constituted a priority in Moroccan women’s struggle for dignity in and outside home. These rights have become central to women’s activism with their increasing access to education and the job market. Today, women’s legal rights are associated with democratization and political openness. This paper addresses these issues and underlines the impact of the family law in generating and accelerating feminist ideas in Morocco.
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Global Social Change: Historical
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