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"India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj) and culture (sanskriti). However, studies on castes largely deal with social structure and less on culture, while studies on tribes focus more on culture than on social structure. What has resulted from this bias is a general misunderstanding that tribes have a rich culture, but lack social structure. This volume emerges out of an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses and compares their internal social organization consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks. The book also deals with changes taking place in the social structure of contemporary tribal societies. While the focus is mainly on the data from tribes of Western India, the issues are relevant to pan Indian tribes. An important contribution to the studies on tribes of India, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, demography, history, tribal studies, social work, public policy, and law. It will also be of interest to professionals working with NGOs and civil society, programme and policy formulating authorities, and bureaucrats"--

"India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj) and culture (sanskriti). However, studies on castes largely deal with social structure and less on culture, while studies on tribes focus more on culture than on social structure. What has resulted from this bias is a general misunderstanding that tribes have a rich culture, but lack social structure. This volume emerges out of an in-depth empirical study of the social structure of five Scheduled Tribes (STs) in Gujarat, Western India, viz., Gamit, Vasava, Chaudhari, Kukana, and Warli. It analyses and compares their internal social organization consisting of institutions of household, family, lineage, clan, kinship rules and marriage networks. The book also deals with changes taking place in the social structure of contemporary tribal societies. While the focus is mainly on the data from tribes of Western India, the issues are relevant to pan Indian tribes. An important contribution to the studies on tribes of India, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of anthropology, sociology, demography, history, tribal studies, social work, public policy, and law. It will also be of interest to professionals working with NGOs and civil society, programme and policy formulating authorities, and bureaucrats"--

Equal share in governance of managing natural resources is one of the strategic aspects of neoliberal developmentalism. Additionally, this process of natural resource governance (NRG) considers communities as a homogeneous entity by ignoring the cultural politics of gender division to maintain the latency and equilibrium of the existing gendered order and regime. Watershed developmental project is no exceptional in this regard. The existing empirical literature shows that the gender governance (GG) issues in development projects such as watershed is disproportionate between men and women. This article talks about GG by discussing the issues of equity, participation and ownership in NRG, and it argued that GG cannot be synonymous with gender mainstreaming. Watershed development in India has been taken to address the issues of conservation and production, but it doesn't address the cultural politics of gendered division. Women are more inclined to be marginalized in the governance of watershed management due to the cultural politics of control and access over the ownership of the natural resource (land) which comes under the hegemonic control of their male counterparts. Women participation in watershed activities is merely for fulfilling the custom of the official quota. Considering the potential function of women participation in watershed activities, the present article seeks to explore the issues and approaches through which the participatory institutions must meet the emerging challenges. This study concludes that the role of women participation in NRG will help in the integration of various form of capital more effectively.

Dalit children are generally marginal with respect to students of other categories, and their dropout rate is an alarming situation in India. Scholars, social scientists and educationists have tried to understand the reasons of student disengagement from the school system and have revealed various causes and given many varied suggestions that are related to a child's family background and socio-cultural background. Although several attempts have been made to understand the reasons for dropout, still it is not explored well. Also, cultural politics for dropout of particular group is not yet explored at the micro and macro levels. In this article, we try to understand how school, through its structures and ideology including textbook culture, influences student's decisions to stay out. This study also considers traditional explanations for understanding the socio-background behaviours of the children for dropout. At the same time, we try to understand the role of school in Dalit children dropout.

"The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers." C. K. Prahalad There was a time when a rural consumer used to travel longer distance to consume particular branded goods and services. Only selected consumers consumed branded goods and services. But due to globalization the scenario has been changed. Now a customer is king and due to the economy, he/she prefers branded goods and services which give more value. Before globalization only big companies were able to capture the rural market to establish their brands and services. But in the present scenario the rural market is very critical for every marketer whether FMGG, IT or automobile brands. Women are the world's most powerful consumers. They are big spender, when we are talking about household items, corporate purchasing, or small business. This is not happening only in the urban but also in rural market. In the past, men used to take the decision to purchase any goods or services but now scenario has changed and mostly decisions are taken by rural women. The rural women are very sensitive and careful regarding their purchasing process. So marketers must know the perception and mindset of the rural women for survival of their products in the rural market.

AbstractThe test mat biomass rapidly sorbed malachite green (MG; a cationic dye) and heavy metals from mono‐component, binary and ternary systems. In mono‐component system, the sorption of Cu, Cd and MG increased when pH was increased from 3 to 4. However, in binary and ternary systems sorption of metals and MG were not substantially influenced by pH within the range 3–5. The presence of Cu or MG in binary or ternary systems reduced the sorption of each other from the solution. However, Cd enhanced the sorption of MG from binary solution and vice versa. Moreover, the ability of mat biomass to rapidly sorb metal ions and malachite green from mono‐component, binary and ternary systems, together with easy harvesting of biomass due to self‐immobilized nature, make it a suitable sorbent for the treatment of wastewaters that concomitantly bear the both heavy metals and dyes as pollutants.