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Significance of Bamboo among the Tai Ahoms in Rural Situations of Assam

Periodic Research   ( P: ISSN No. 2231-0045 RNI No. UPBIL/2012/55438 VOL. -6, ISSUE-2, November - 2017 E: ISSN No. 2349-9435 ) Abstract   Tara Nath Dowarah  Museum Curator, Deptt.of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam.  Arifur Zaman  Assistant Professor, Deptt.of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University Dibrugarh, Assam Bamboo is one of the integral objects of human culture. It has a pristine heritage of its own and is invariably use as an important ingredient for construction of houses, different household implements like bed, mat, spread, storing basket, drinking/storing bamboo tubes, decorative items, etc. Varieties of delicious food items are prepared from bamboo offshoots. The people of Assam have established a near obsession with the use of bamboo for the major construction of all domestic implements / accessories and thus their habitual norms are customarily very much linked with the bamboo. Bamboo has got an integral relation with the beli...

Health and Nutritional Status of Gond Children

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Periodic Research   ( P: ISSN No. 2231-0045 RNI No. UPBIL/2012/55438 VOL.-7, ISSUE-1, August-2018 E: ISSN No. 2349-9435 )  Abstract   Mehul Chauhan  Executive Director, Gramodyog Sansthan, Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, India The qualitative aspect of the child demography determines the futuristic capable human resource of a country and thus allocation of resources plays a primary role in meeting the improved health status of children on medical grounds. The study is undertaken in the four Tribal dominated villages of the Bijadandi Block of Mandla District in Madhya Pradesh. The research illustrates for the perception and unavailability of modern medical infrastructural facilities and the received vaccination percentage of children in the studied Tribal areas. Poor Nutritional quality of food provided in the schools also contributes towards the growing malnutrition of tribal children. The lower health literacy among the Tribal demography of Bijadandi Block posits a majo...