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ANILINE INDUCED HISTOLOGICAL ALTERATIONS AND EVALUATION OF SERUM HORMONES IN THYROID GLAND OF MALE ALBINO RATS
Get PDFAniline is a primary aryl amine in which an amino functional group is substituted for one of the benzene hydrogen. It is a primary aryl mine and a member of anilines appears as yellowish to brownish oily liquid with a musty odour. Aniline has diverse uses in industry and in pharmaceuticals. It is used in rubber accelerators and antioxidants dyes and pigments fibres, photographic chemicals. It is also used in herbicides and fungicides. The objective of the present study is to investigate the effect of aniline on thyroid gland in albino rats. Eighteen adults albino rats were divided into three groups A, B and C. Group A was control and provided with normal food and water as well as Group B and C were received 20 mg/kg bw of aniline daily for 15 and 30 days respectively. After the completion of treatment body and organs weight and histology of thyroid gland and evaluation of serum hormones were examined. Results showed that there is decrease in body weight and increase in organ weight in experimental group as compare to control group of animals. Histopathology of thyroid gland of treated rats showed increase in number of microfollicles, reduce colloid secretion, vacuolation in colloid, breakdown of capsular layer, follicular disruption, fusion of thyroid follicles and increase interfollicular space as compared to control. Hormonal analysis of thyroid gland of treated rats showed significant decreased in thyroid hormones Tri-iodothyronine (T3), Tetra-iodothyronine (T4) level and increase Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level as compared to control. From the results, It can be conclude that the aniline has potential to exerts deleterious effect on structure and function of thyroid gland
A STUDY OF CONTRIBUTION OF NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN TRIBAL COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT
Get PDF The State is the original agency charged with the responsibility to implement development of the marginalized, centralized planning by experts who had no stakes involved led to development projects causing untold sufferings to the weak indigenous people. Collusion between the bureaucracy and influential sections of society led them to corner development benefits for themselves at the cost of the weak. The inability to understand and at times deliberately ignoring cultural practices of the tribals resulted in failure of development projects and human rights violations. The N.G.Os capacity to understand the tribals and their informal style of functioning has positively benefited the tribals by bringing about positive social structures in their society . The awareness programmes and informal education that the NGO conducts makes the people aware of their rights, the method that the NGO follows namely that of participatory planning, action- reflection - action method has provided the people with a structure to analyze their situations and respond in a creative way. The Right to Information Act is another important instrument that the NGOs have used to help the tribals realize their right to development
IMPACT OF STATE HEALTH POLICIES ON THREATENED TRIBAL GROUPS: A CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION AMONG ST KOLAM TRIBE IN YAVATMAL DISTRICT
Get PDFThe region as well as the Kolam community has a unique character and pattern of responses to any of the studies and development program me undertaken so far. Our studies have concluded that the usual temptation of generalizing the issues of all the communities as one has led to further marginalization of small tribal communities such as Kolam. Thus there is a need to consider the requirement of such specific tribes and modify any development intervention accordingly to achieve maximum results for ensuring the existence of the tribe itself.
Coming back to from where we began the million dollar question is for whose progress are the MDGs for? A report on the status of MDGs in different countries by UNDP 2004 states that with only a decade left to achieve the MDGs India not even half way through the set goals as far as reduction of infant and maternal mortality rates are concerned. Human Development Report 2005 too reasserts India's health state. And according to a recent study report in Lancet the MDG's would be achieved even if the indigenous population was left where it was on the development scale. So do the governments really care for the most marginalized and threatened communities
GENDER ISSUES IN MAHESH DATTANI’S ‘SEVEN STEPS AROUND THE FIRE’
Get PDFMahesh Dattani is an authentic and realistic voice in the arena of contemporary Indian plays written in English. His play Seven Steps Around the Fire was first broadcast by BBC Radio on 9th January 1999 as Seven Circles Around the Fire. It was premiered on stage by MTC Production and The Madras Players on 6th August 1999. The play is a living reflection of Dattani’s abiding interest in the lives and experiences of a sexually marginalized section of the Indian society -- the eunuchs. The main plot of the play revolves around the central character of Uma Rao, a Ph.D. scholar in Sociology, daughter of a Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University and the wife of a Superintendent of Police. Uma, using rather unconventional means, uncovers the hushed up truth behind a murder in the city’s hijra community. The murder victim, Kamla, a beautiful eunuch had been secretly married to Subbu, the son of a wealthy government minister who, in order to avoid scandal, had the young hijra burned to death, and quickly arranged for his son to marry an ‘acceptable’ girl, befitting his social status. The corrupt police department in order to protect the minister from scandal, arrests Anarkali, an innocent eunuch, on the charge of Kamla’s murder. However, Anarkali’ s imprisonment lays bare a wide range of possibilities that offer scope to the readers of the play to inspect the manner in which hijras are treated in mainstream society
MAHESH DATTANI - AN AUTHENTIC VOICE OF A CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PLAYWRIGHT
Get PDFDattani’s plays are about the marginalized sections of our society – the minorities, women, gays and the eunuchs. His characters usually live on the edges and fringes of society and they, while not looking for acceptance, are often shown to be struggling to get as much fringe-space for themselves as they can. Dattani’s plays can also be seen as relentless assaults on Indian patriarchy. He struck his first blow on patriarchal domination by empowering the women characters in his first play, Where There’s a Will (1988). Dattani described the play as the exorcism of the patriarchal code. Women – be it daughter-in-law, wife or mistress – are dependent on men and this play “shows what happens when they are pushed to the edge” (Dattani, Vol 1 451). In a line rich with suggestiveness, he makes a mistress say of her benefactor, “He saw in me a woman who would father him.’’ (510) Indeed, the ‘Other’ woman, the conventionally maligned ‘keep’, turns out in this play to be a positive factor in stabilizing her former lover’s family. The play also exposes the social corruptions of the nouveau riche and the dynamics of power and domination operational within a family
DR. B.R. AMBEDKAR’S THOUGHTS AND INDIAN GOVERNMENT POLICIES FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT IN INDIA
Get PDFThis article provides an overview of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s thoughts and how these thoughts are important in present government policies for women empowerment. This is the qualitative type of research and inductive approach has adopted for the conclusion. In the rising India where seemingly more and more women enter various fields to work alongside men there are many struggles that they put up to achieve where they are and there are many more glass ceilings that they need to break open and move up before they achieve a position of complete equality. Dr. Ambedkar’s exposure the western education and his deep understanding western philosophy and ideals made him appreciate the climate equality that prevailed and aspire for the same to the disadvantaged sections of the society which included women of India. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar expressed his views on the state of life of all women. He stated that women must be treated equally and given equal prestige. He insisted on Hindu Code bill suggesting the basic improvements and amendments in assembly. He also insisted and evoked all the parliamentary members to help to pass the bill in parliament. Eventually, he resigned for the same. The teachings and thoughts of Dr. Ambedkar are useful not only women but also all the Indian even today. His deep concern and feelings for all round development of women is expressed from his each sentence and word
LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY: AN ASPECT OF MULTICULTURALISM IS A PROBLEM TO NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN INDIA
Get PDFIndia is a multinational country with many sub-nations which are proud of their own cultures. The linguistic survey of India on different occasion has soon that there are more than thousands mother tongues including various languages and dialects. These linguistic diversity has always been posing a great threat to national unity or integration which means a people living in a territorial unit having a national authority and as value consensus. National integration is a problem of many countries but in India the problem is most comprehensive. One of the barriers to the achievement of national integration in India is the existence of strong hold of sub-national loyalties on account of linguistic diversities. However linguistic diversity did not pose a great problem for compromises and consensus among the people during the independence struggle.After independence politicization of language has tended to threaten our national integration on the controversies over the linguistic re-organisation of the state, the official language, etc. Yet it can be said that a single language for national identity is hardly possible in India. The solution of language problem for establishing national unity in India must be a pluralist one
आज़ादी और आदिवासी
No full textसदियों से जंगलों में निवास करनेवाले आदिवासी निराश्रीत हो गये है। उनके भूभागों पर, खेत खलिहानों पर सदी और तालाकें पर बड़े-बड़े उदयोग लगाने के नाम पर सरकार ने कब्जा कर लिया है। कोयला, लोहा आदि बहुमूल्य खनिज पदार्थों के उत्खनन के नाम पर आदिवासीयों की जमिनों एंव पहाड़ों से बेदखल कर दिया गया है। अनपढ़, गरीब एंव असहाय आदिवासी बार-बार विस्थापित एंव पलायन की मार झेल रहा है। विस्थापित एंव पलायन के बाद उसकी आर्थिक, सामाजिक, शैक्षिक और शारिरीक स्थिती और भी अधिक खराब हो जाती है। वन माफिया, खनन माफिया, शिक्षा माफिया, शराब माफिया आदि असामाजिक और असंसदीय लोग आदिवासीयों की बची-खुची हालत को और भी अधिक बदतर कर देते है। अन्ततः गरीब, अनपढ असहाय आदिवासी रोजी रोटी की तलाश मे शहरों की और पलायन करता है और मलिन बस्तियों में सड़क के किनारे झुग्गी झोपडी डालकर भीख मांगता है या हाथतोड़ मेहनत मजदुरी कर अपने बच्चों का पेट पालता है। लोकतन्त्र के नाम पर आदिवासीयों के संबन्ध मे जमिनी सच्चाई यही है। सरकारे आदिवासीयों के उत्थान एंव विकास के नाम पर बड़े-बड़े वादें करती है, बड़ी योजनाएं चलाती है किंतु आदिवासीयों का सारा हक्क एंव सुविधाऐ स्थानिय राजनेता, कार्यकर्ता, अधिकारी एंव कर्मचारी मिल बाँटकर खा जाते हैं। अनपढ एंव असहाय आदिवासीयों को पता तक नहीं चलता कागजों पर सबकुछ हो जाता है। आदिवासीयों को भले कुछ पता नहो किंतु सरकारों को सबकछु पता रहता है। फिर भी वह अनजान एंव अन्धी बनकर कान में तेल डाले पड़ी रहती है
DECADAL RANK SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF URBAN POPULATION OF NAGPUR DISTRICT
Get PDFThe Rank-Size Rule is one of the method of analyzing total settlement networks in a region. Hence it is a tool for analyzing the national settlement system and helps in the description and interpretation of the relationship between rank and population size of urban places. When one looks into the various sizes of urban places in an area, it is commonly observed that there are a few large cities, many medium sized and host of small centre’s. This trend is universal and can be observed at national and regional levels. In other words, the distribution of urban centres of varying sizes at different distances in a region is said to have certain relationship between the population size and rank on one hand and between the spacing and the hierarchical orders on the other under ideal theoretical conditions.The importance of this study is to find out if there is uniform development in the study area in terms of trade, transportation lines, industries, administration centres, educational and medical facilities and availability of other services and opportunities for the people of the all tahsils of Nagpur district
EPIDEMIC, DISEASES PREVENTION, AND COLONIAL STATE: A BRIEF HISTORY OF EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT (1897) IN COLONIAL INDIA
Get PDFDuring the colonial period, infectious diseases like cholera, plague, smallpox, and influenza were prevalent in India. The British colonial government and the European countries were terrified of infectious diseases. The quarantine of the ships caused a loss to British trade. Discussions began at the international level to prevent epidemics. British colonial government passed the Epidemic Diseases Act (1897) in India to maintain international pressure and protect trade. In addition, the colonial rulers of India wanted to protect the Europeans in India. The law gave special powers to doctors, ICS officers, and army officers to prevent epidemics. According to the law, any infected person was forcibly admitted to the hospital, disinfected of areas, houses, etc. The plague spread to Bombay, Pune, Calcutta, Karachi, and other cities. There was dissatisfaction among the people due to government restrictions. The Epidemic Diseases Act played an important role in controlling infectious epidemics. This law was enforced to prevent various infectious diseases in post-independence India. Currently, the Epidemic Diseases Act has been implemented to deal with the Covid 19 Pandemic