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Emerging dimensions in decentralisation
Vagurani of Usilampatti Union in Madurai district was the next destination for the media team to cover the ... The people, particularly the members of traditional village committee from Vagurani village, decided to collect money from ...
by Ganapathy Palanithurai
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Speaking tree, womenspeak, Asia-Pacific Public Hearing on Crimes Against Women Related to the Violence of Development, 28 January 1995, Bangalore, India
After the dam was constructed one side of Usilampatti district got the river water. With irrigation in these areas, ... new cultivation pattern which slowly eroded and destroyed the traditional links between land, livelihood and cattle.
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Tamil social history
Currently the Usilampatti taluk of Madurai district and some taluks in the Dharmapuri and Salem districts stand ... The Kallar community seems to have the tradition of spending extravagantly on family functions involving women like, ...
by N. Subrahmanian, Shu Hikosaka, G. John Samuel, P. Thiagarajan, Institute of Asian Studies (Madras, India)
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Killing infants, studies in the world practice of infanticide
A 1986 study of the Usilampatti government hospital reported that castes with a tradition of female infanticide probably still practice it: "Nearly 600 female births in the Kallar caste in the Usilampatti government hospital occur every ...
by Brigitte Bechtold, Donna Cooper Graves
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Population review
Wasted money Spending money to raise a daughter, traditional Indian logic holds, is as wasteful as watering your ... In the nearly 300 poor hamlets of the Usilampatti area of Tamil Nadu, as many as 196 girls died under suspicious ...
by Indian Institute for Population Studies
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Crooked stalks, cultivating virtue in South India
Digital video still, Karuthamma (1994). newsweekly India Today had opined that ' 'the Kallars of Usilampatti remain the prisoners of their burdensome, savage traditions.''∞ Social activists working in the region in fact attributed the ...
by Anand Pandian
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The South Indian Pentecostal movement in the twentieth century
... of course, connected with the fact that there is a strong tradition of proselytism,beginning with effortsof the ... in the districts of Usilampatti and Thanjavur (Tamil Nadu), and Vellalas in Thanjavur District (Tamil Nadu).
by Michael Bergunder
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Teaching about Violence Against Women, Volume 27 Numbers 1&2
Dr. KJ Kurian's observations on the Kallars in Usilampatti concur with Vaasanthi's economic solution to modern female ... There is a contradiction in the British analysis of female infanticide as driven by tradition, and their solution ...
by Janet Zandy
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The scandal of the state, women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India
... of a group and its unchanging and invariant traditions but are instead inflected by an understanding of other social and ... for instance, connected the revival of the custom among the Maramalai Kallars in Usilampatti district with ...
by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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Sociology of religion in India
... Movement one of whose objectives was to denigrate the Hindu great tradition so as to lower the status of Brahmins. ... Kothandapani, PK 1980. PiromilaifcaUar, A Denotifted Tribe. Pasumpon: Usilampatti Pasumpon Muthuramalinga ...
by Rowena Robinson
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