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South India #9780673363596 #Esther Grisham, Mira Bartok #Good Year Books, 1997 #32 pages The Green Revolution reconsidered: the impact of high-yielding rice varieties in South India, the Green Revolution has had significant impact on incomes and food supplies in many developing countries. Based on data collected before and after the adoption of high-yielding rice varieties in North Arcot, Tamil Nadu, India, an indepth study, comprising 10 papers. The Politics of South India, 1920-1937, the interwar years witnessed great changes in the political life of India, with the establishment of new governmental institutions, the emergence of political movements based on class, caste and ideology, and the rapid expansion of the nationalist campaign. The rule of water: statecraft, ecology and collective action in South India, this book explores the changing ecology, political significance, and cultural meaning of water in South India. Focusing on the ancient tank irrigation system of the coastal plains region, the book develops an account of the interplay between social and political. Size at birth, maternal weight, and type 2 diabetes in South India, recent research in Europe and the USA has shown that adults who had a low birthweight or who were thin at birth with a low ponderal index (birthweight/length 3) tend to be insulin resistant and have an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Low birthweight. Fetal growth and coronary heart disease in South India, background Coronary heart disease is predicted to become the commonest cause of death in India within 15 years. People from India living overseas already have high rates of the disease that are not explained by known coronary risk factors. Small size at birth is a newly. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, pharmacognosy is a subject dealing with naturally occurring drugs of plant, animal and mineral origin. While contributing a major share to Modern medicine, this subject is equally important in the context of Indian holistic systems as well. Indian ethnic systems of medicines. The system of administrative and political corruption: Canal irrigation in South India, the paper describes how some irrigation engineers raise vast amounts of illicit revenue from the distribution of water and contracts, and redistribute part to superior officers and politicians. It argues that the corruption 'system', which is centred on control of personnel. Nutrition and labor producvivity in agriculture: Estimates for rural South India, using panel data for rural south India, a fixed-effects individual wage equation and farm production function are estimated which have calorie intake and nutritional status (weight-for-height) of workers as their arguments. Neither market wages nor farm output are observed. Aetiology of suppurative corneal ulcers in Ghana and south India, and epidemiology of fungal keratitis, background: A multicentre study was carried out in Ghana and southern India to determine the aetiology of suppurative keratitis in two regions located at similar tropical latitudes. Studies of fungal keratitis from the literature were reviewed. Methods: Patients presenting. Precambrian tectonics and crustal evolution in South India, about 3.4 Ga ago voluminous calc-alkaline magmas represented by the granitoid gneisses of southern India were emplaced into a now poorly preserved non-continental crust. Unstable ensialic basins, initiated at about 3.0 Ga, were filled with volcanic and sedimentary. Will developing country nutrition improve with income? A case study for rural South India, the World Bank and others maintain that the major mechanism for improving nutrition in poor communities is increases in income. Aggregate estimates of food expenditure are consistent with such a possibility, implying income/expenditure elasticities close. Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, along with the clock and the railroad, did the British colonists bring the questionable gift of history to India? Generations of Western writers have claimed that historical consciousness did not exist in India before its conquest by the British at the end of the eighteenth century. Prevalence of coronary artery disease and its relationship to lipids in a selected population in South India: The Chennai Urban Population Study (CUPS No. 5, oBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) in a native urban South Indian population. BACKGROUND High prevalence rates of premature CAD have been reported in migrant Asian Indians. Idioms of distress: alternatives in the expression of psychosocial distress: a case study from South India, this paper focuses attention on alternative modes of expressing distress and the need to analyze particular manifestations of distress in relation to personal and cultural meaning complexes as well as the availability and social implications of coexisting idioms. Epidemiology and aetiological diagnosis of corneal ulceration in Madurai, south India, aIMS/BACKGROUND To determine the epidemiological characteristics and risk factors predisposing to corneal ulceration in Madurai, south India, and to identify the specific pathogenic organisms responsible for infection. METHODS All patients with suspected. The epidemiological features and laboratory results of fungal keratitis: a 10-year review at a referral eye care center in South India, purpose. To report the epidemiological features and laboratory results of 1,352 cases of fungal keratitis diagnosed at the LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) in south India. Methods. The medical and microbiology records of 1,352 culture proven cases (1,354 eyes) of fungal. Wife-beating in rural South India: A qualitative and econometric analysis, this paper uses ethnographic and econometric methods to study the determinants of wife abuse in a community of potters in Southern India. The qualitative work demonstrates that wife abuse is more likely when dowries are perceived as inadequate, when husbands. Irrigation and cooperation: An empirical analysis of 48 irrigation communities in South India, a controlled supply of water is crucial for much of the world's agriculture. This is particularly the case in many of the semiarid and unevenrainfall areas of South Asia. While there is a considerable body of work on the management of large canal systems and the structure. Siva and her sisters: gender, caste, and class in rural South India, the book examines two subordinated groups, untouchables and women from a village in Tamil Nadu, south India. The lives and work of untouchable women in this village provide a unique analytical focus that clarifies the ways in which three spheres of identity, gender. Secular trends in the prevalence of diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in urban South India⠔the Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES, aims/hypothesis The aim of this study was to determine the secular trends in prevalence of diabetes and IGT in urban India. Materials and methods The Chennai Urban Rural Epidemiology Study (CURES) screened 26,001 individuals aged≥ 20 years using. by M Nichter