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Towards an Exercise in Unravelling the Hidden Sides of Commonalities and Differences: Black Atlantic Slave Trade and the Indentured Labour Migration
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No full textLocating Dharmamangal in the Rarh Bengal: A Brief Analysis of its Social Significance
Get PDFThe present study is an attempt to locate the Dharmamangal texts of the Mangalkavya genre , in the
context of social history of Bengal. Since time immemorial, Bengal had been the intermingling of diverse
races, creeds, religions and cultures. Unlike in the north , where we find Aryan domination or in the South
where there was the prominence of Dravidian culture the heterogeneity of the Indian history and culture
was nowhere so markedly pronounced as it happened in Bengal. Bengal can be rightly called an
ethnographic museum. This uniqueness of Bengal’s diverse and heterogeneous cultural mosaic also
manifests its assimilative character. It can be said in anthropological and sociological terminology various
types of cultural changes have been taken place in Bengal for example assimilation, acculturation, diffusion,
syncretism and transculturation. Even after the process of aryanisation , the bulk of the population
consisted of non Aryan elements and on them, the impact of that late aryanisation was rudimentary and
partial. Even the high caste Bengali population was very much influenced by non- Aryan elements,
which can be termed as folk element or folk tradition. From the anthropological point of view it can be
said that there existed the little and great traditions of Hinduism in ancient Bengal side by sided influencing
each other.
The Dharmangalkavya belonged to the sub genre of the Mangalkavya tradition and formed a part of the
‘little tradition’ of the Indian religious trend. The text was composed between the sixteenth and the
seventeenth centuries in the south-western parts of Bengal, to glorify Dharmathakur, a folk deity, who
was at times identified with Siva, Vishnu and even represented Lord Buddha in the days of degeneracy of
Buddhism in Bengal. In the later years a wave of Hindu thought transformed the deity into a more semi
Hinduised cult of the lower orders of Bengal. With this development, a very rich folk literature grew up
in the Rarh region of Bengal in the name Dharmangalkavya. The paper will thus highlight a trend of
acceptance of the cult in the upper strata of the society as it has been depicted in the narrative that his
qualities that of Siva, Surya & Vishnu, which are actually emphasized for indicating his relation with the
established Hindu Gods. At the same time, the paper would also focus on how the indigenous population
of this region got attracted towards this cult, associated with this narrative
Minutes of the Teacher Student Committee (M.Sc.) Meeting (Computer Science) held on 06-02-2018
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SUPREMACY OF THE US ON EQUITY MARKETS OF THE BRICS: A MYTH OR A REALITY?
Get PDFThe BRICS is considered as the most promising and emerging markets’
group and pool of economies. For the last few years, the economies of the
US and BRICS are sharing increasing trade, economic and financial
linkages. As the emerging economies aspire to become truly developed
nations, the issue of heavy interdependence on developed economies is
often addressed. However, the patterns of influence of the US on the equity
markets of the BRICS have undergone tremendous changes in the recent
years. The present study aims to investigate the inter-linkages and causal
relationships between the US and BRICS equity markets. The study
exclusively depends on different econometric models and techniques such
as unit root test, cointegration and causality tests to evaluate and analyse
the empirical data. The overall results report changing market dynamics
and time varying integration among the countries across the years of study.
The study also finds the fading away of the US supremacy over the BRICS
markets and a story of Chinese supremacy as a leader in world economy
