Native Place Research Articles

Did Your Mother Go To Bimbo School?: Naming Schools, Power, and Politics in Canada’s Prairie West

Naming converts space to place. Place names are often the manifestation of military and political power. The victors write history and embed their culture and power in the landscape by naming and renaming places. In Canada’s Prairie West, after 1870, Aboriginal place names were submerged beneath a tide of British imperial nomenclature bestowed by major corporations. Agricultural immigrants from Europe found it difficult to mark their presence in the landscape by naming settlements, but school names were generally assigned locally. By naming schools, otherwise powerless groups from Eastern Europe marked their presence in the rural landscape. Naming or renaming them reflected the strength of community power, the community’s weltanschaaung , and fluctuations in the influence of the Anglophone elite. L’acte de nommer convertit l’espace en un lieu. Le nom des lieux (toponyme) sont souvent la manifestation du pouvoir politique et militaire. Les vainqueurs écrivent l’histoire et intègrent leur culture et pouvoir dans le paysage en nommant et en renommant des lieux. Après 1870, dans la région des Prairies de l’Ouest du Canada, les toponymes autochtones ont été submergés sous une marée de nomenclature impériale Britannique conférée par les grandes entreprises commerciales. Les immigrants agricoles en provenance d’Europe ont trouvé difficile de marquer leur présence dans le paysage en nommant des villages. Toutefois, cela n’était pas le cas pour le nom des écoles qui était généralement attribué localement. L’acte de nommer leurs écoles a permis à des groupes d’Europe de l’Est de marquer leur présence dans le paysage rural. Ainsi, nommer ou renommer les écoles reflète le pouvoir de la communauté, l’weltanschauung de la communauté, et les fluctuations de l’influence de l’élite anglophone.

Carbon sequestration by different tree species in tropical dry deciduous forest of Panchmahal District (Gujarat) in India

Trees act as a sink for CO2 by fixing carbon during photosynthesis and storing surplus carbon as biomass which alter through time as trees grow, die and decay. There is uncertainty about the extent of carbon stored in forests by trees. 28 species belonging to 20 families were studied to demonstrate relationship among carbon sequestration which was half the tree biomass. Total carbon sequestration was 448.044 tonnes dominated byTectona grandis L.F., Butea monosperma (Lam) Taub and Diospyrosmelanoxylon Roxb. The deviation in carbon sequestration was observed due to girth, height, biomass, native place and economic importance of species. Statistically a positive correlation of 0.966 was found between the total number of trees and total carbon sequestration.

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BACKGROUND: The Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP), India. OBJECTIVE: To study the treatment outcomes in patients treated under RNTCP c hence sputum conversion rate was 91.84% in present study. We found that233newsputum smear positive cases out of which 187 were cured. Thus the cure rate was 80.2%.Out of which 506 smear negative and extra pulmonary patients 462 completed treatment hence treatment completion rate was 91.30%. Out of 233 new smear sputum positive cases, 23 died thus death rate was 9.8%, 5 patients were treatment failure thus the failure rate was 2.1 %. 12 patients defaulted the treatment thus defaulted rate was5.15%.Due to tuberculosis 22 (2.7%) patients died, 27 (3.3%) due to HIV, 17 (2.1%) defaulted due to migration, 5 (0.6%) defaulted due to addiction of alcohol, 3 (0.4%) defaulted due to not relief from symptoms, 1 (0.1%) defaulted due to adverse reaction.16 (2%) failed in due to initial heavy bacillary load. CONCLUSION: It is observed that our regimens produced decline in failure rate, default rate was near expected, death rate was little more. As cure rate was very close to RNTCP objectives, reason might be good case holding in the study. The present study revealed that deaths due to pulmonary tuberculosis even after treatment& HIV renders individuals more susceptible to death as in these study 27 deaths are due to HIV. Some people migrate to their native place or for their work and become defaulted. Default was attributed to migration to their native places in this study. Majority of cases of failure might be due to initial heavy bacillary load.

Wishing for a Home: Race, Class, and Global Capitalism in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée and Se-Hŭi Cho’s A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf

Wishing for a Home: Race, Class, and Global Capitalism in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée and Se-Hŭi Cho’s A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf Dongho Cha 1. Two Dislocations, Two Desires Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (2000) begins with a photograph of an anonymous wall carving, which reads in Korean: “Mother, I miss you, I am hungry, I want to go home to my native place” (front.).1 And Cha finds her mother (Hyung Soon Huo) grappling with the desire to “go home.” The reason she desires it is because her family’s exile to Manchuria (to escape the Japanese occupation) and her birth there have effectively located her far away from her home, Korea. Her obligation to speak in “mandatory language” (Japanese), in particular, is taken to be indicative of her dislocation. “It is not your own. . . .The tongue that is forbidden is your own mother tongue” (45), Cha says. What Cha wants to suggest, however, is that her mother, although she is suffering from “the knowledge” “of having left,” nevertheless can find a way to satisfy her “yearning” for “being home,” proving [End Page 1097] that she “has not left” (45–46).2 The way she does so is to speak her mother tongue “very softly” “in a whisper,” virtually “in secret” (45), by which Cha means not that her mother can speak it covertly but that her use of it is “the mark” of her being home. When she utters the Korean word “MAH-UHM,” she produces a thing that she can “carry” “in [her] chest”; it is not just a word that means “spirit,” it is her “spirit-heart” (46).3 Thus, the mother tongue she speaks in secret is a tongue that can serve as her home rather than merely refer to it. This is why Cha calls it “the mark of belonging” (46). Going home is of special importance to Cha, who immigrated to the United States at an early age and assimilated into American culture. Cha, like her mother, raises her “voice” to “connect” herself to her home at a “distance” (56). “Bits of sound” she produces are “not hollow” and “not empty,” since they are “chips of stones” that can bear a material record of her home (what Cha calls its “dust” “particles”) (ibid). But here, Cha’s urge to return home is possible only “here” in the United States (a place, that is, “so far away from home”) for which she has left.4 For it is only when she “leave[s]” home (when, as Cha says, she becomes “American” and her nationality is replaced by “the other one”) that Cha first has a “will” to “come back” home (57). Cha desires both to stay “the same” and to make “the difference” (56). Indeed, she cannot return home unless she already leaves home. For Cha, the spatial rift caused by immigration is conceived as a gap that grounds the possibilities of both leaving and returning home, or, in her own terms, as a “void and space surrounding entering and exiting” (ibid). Se-Hŭi Cho’s A Little Ball Launched by a Dwarf (2000), too, radiates around the desire to go home. A dwarf (Bul-Yi Kim) and his family who have lived in an “unauthorized dwelling” on the hillside of “the Hangbok Zone 3 Redevelopment Area” in Seoul and have received a “condemnation notice” are in danger of losing their home. “‘So, finally,’ Mother said. ‘They’re telling us the house has to go, aren’t they?’” (81). The only choice left to them is to “sell” their “apartment occupancy rights” and “move” out of the town.5 Yong-Ho and Yong-Hŭi, [End Page 1098] the dwarf’s son and daughter, however, express a wish not to leave their home and ask their father not to sell their rights: “We’re going to live right here. This is our home,” they say, “We’re not leaving. We’ve got no place to go” (84). Yet despite their earnest request, the rights are sold to “a man in a [black] sedan” at a little above the market price (“Two hundred fifty...

Socio - Economic Concerns of Return Emigrants: A Case Study on Goa

Goa has a long history of migration. The return emigration is an important facet of the migration dynamics in Goa. These return emigrants ensured an uninterrupted flow of remittance from Gulf during their economically active days. They had to return back to their native place due to several reasons. Back at home they face lot of difficulties & discrimination. Inspite of their valuable contributions, they are treated as an ‘uninvited guest” by family, society & state. The study examines the difficulties encountered by return emigrants back at home & recommends state intervention for their rehabilitation.

Friendship with Patients

Friendship with Patients

Labour Out Migration from Rice Based Cropping System: A Case of Bihar, India

Migration has been a recurrent phenomenon since the dawn of human history. Though its form has changed but it remains a dominant event in the global social system. In modern days also people migrate from underdeveloped areas to the developed ones in search of better opportunities. A number of social, cultural, economic, spatial, climatic, demographic factors induce migration, however, the economic factors are considered as the primary reasons for inducing migration. Migration of male labor force from Bihar has increased during last two decades. It was observed that the youngsters are more prone to migration and most of them are migrating to urban centers for non-farm work. Migration helped more rational use of two critical inputs, labour and irrigation in rice production on migrant households. The migration seems to have helped in judicious use of human labor at native place due to migration of surplus labor force for gainful employment to destination of migration. Remittances have been utilized for meeting consumption needs, improved livelihood, better education to children and better health care facilities. Migrant households also preferred to save money to meet their requirements in unforeseen situations. It can thus be inferred that migration may be one of risk-coping strategies for the weaker sections of the society and has inculcated the saving habits among migrant households. The allocation of remittances on agricultural inputs could have increased if proper infrastructure facilities were present in rural areas for faster dissemination of modern agricultural technology for increasing agricultural production. Analysis of determinants of migration revealed that a male member of lower caste with larger size of land and larger number of dependents is more prone to migration in Bihar. The caste barrier for migration has weakened but still persists; however, size of farm is no more taboo for migration.

Degrading population of Cajanus lineatus (Wight et Arn.) Maesen, in parts of the Western Ghats, India

The current distribution of Cajanus lineatus in the forest area of the Western Ghats including Kumbharli Ghat, Mahabaleshwar, Lonavala, Khandala and Sinhgarh, from where the species was reported earlier, was estimated. The extensive exploration of these areas revealed that Cajanus lineatus is facing severe threat of habitat loss/fragmentation due to anthropogenic activities. Very few fragmented populations with a small number of plants such as one or two individuals were found and most of them had vanished when visited subsequently. The species almost disappeared from most of the native places as urbanization and road constructions have increased importantly. Cajanus lineatus prefers open places, mainly targeted by these activities. Hence, the present situation of the habitat-specific C. lineatus in these areas is alarming and very soon the species will be at the verge of extinction.

中国同郷団体の改造・解体過程（1945－1956）

中国同郷団体の改造・解体過程（1945－1956）

Health related quality of life and influencing factors among welders.

BackgroundOccupational exposure to welding fumes is a serious occupational health problem all over the world. Welders are exposed to many occupational hazards; these hazards might cause some occupational diseases. The aim of the study was to assess the health related quality of life (HRQL) of electric welders in Shanghai China and explore influencing factors to HRQL of welders.Methods301 male welders (without pneumoconiosis) and 305 non-dust male workers in Shanghai were enrolled in this study. Short Form-36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaires were applied in this cross-sectional study. Socio-demographic, working and health factors were also collected. Multiple stepwise regress analysis was used to identify significant factors related to the eight dimension scores.ResultsSix dimensions including role-physical (RP), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH), validity (VT), social function (SF), and mental health (MH) were significantly worse in welders compared to non-dust workers. Multiple stepwise regress analysis results show that native place, monthly income, quantity of children, drinking, sleep time, welding type, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), great events in life, and some symptoms including dizziness, discomfort of cervical vertebra, low back pain, cough and insomnia may be influencing factors for HRQL of welders. Among these factors, only sleep time and the use of PPE were salutary.ConclusionsSome dimensions of HRQL of these welders have been affected. Enterprises which employ welders should take measures to protect the health of these people and improve their HRQL.

Income, Migration and Social Adjustment of the Tribal People in Tripura:A Case Study of the ‘Tripuri’ Tribe

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between income, migration and social adjustment of the migrated tribal people with special reference to the ‘Tripuri’ tribe of Tripura, India, with the help of primary data collected from structured interviews using a purposive sampling technique. The study reveals that the tribal people who migrated from their native places (rural areas) to urban areas, usually suburbs, have a better economic condition and a decent standard of living. Their livelihood patterns have changed after they have migrated to the urban areas. Here, their income levels have also increased along with expenditure. They live in small houses consuming less land, than they did in their native lands. Their standard of living is much below what they have expected before their decision to migrate. They find it difficult to adjust with the local people and the surroundings. The nature of employment in urban areas is such that the doors of the organised sector do not open to them easily. They are always last to be hired and first to be fired, and they usually get ill-paid jobs and do not have opportunities for education and training. Their children do not get adequate facilities to enrol in the good schools as the cost of living in the urban areas are very high. They are struggling hard socially and culturally to adapt and adjust in the new milieu far from their lush green land.

The Politics of Language in Manchukuo: Hinata Nobuo and Gu Ding

AbstractThis article explores the language politics of Manchukuo and the implications reflected in the literary texts of the Japanese writer Hinata Nobuo and the Chinese writer Gu Ding. Through the close examination of communicative failures, such as lexical misunderstandings, linguistic barriers, lies, and rumours in Hinata Nobuo's ‘The Eighth Switching Point’ and Gu Ding's ‘The Wilds’, this article illustrates the authors’ different responses to the impact of this language politics. While both authors were aware of the mutable nature of language, Hinata perceived the Japanese language as a symbol of colonial power and thus the miscommunications between Japanese and Chinese in his story address the ethnic hierarchy embedded in language in the specific context of Manchukuo. Gu Ding, on the other hand, did not see language as a defining element of the culture of a nation, and therefore tried to construct a new type of language and community that were not restricted by the discursive notions of the Chinese and Japanese nations. Gu Ding's primary concern was the modernization of his native place and, to him, adherence to traditional language forms was insignificant and deleterious.

A Descriptive Analysis of Relationship between Extraversion-introversion and Behavior and Lifestyle Patterns among Engineering Students in India

The present study focuses on a descriptive statistical analysis of the relationship between extraversion and introversion tendencies and various factors that can affect extraversion-introversion among engineering students in India. The factors included the native place, age, grades in English, use of social networking websites etc. The results indicated towards some interesting trends like more participants from cities, as compared to metros and villages being extraverts. The younger generation and people from North India were mostly extraverted while aging makes people introverted with time. More of those with better marks in English were extraverts and extraverts were able to speak more number of languages in general as well. A heavy use of Facebook for communication was found to be similar between extraverts and introverts. It was concluded that the study results can be used have better understanding of the relationship between extraversion/introversion and the different variables used in the study.

Some Ornamental Plant species of Tarai region of Kumaun, Uttarakhand

The present study was conducted in the central tarai region of Kumaun, Uttarakhand in the year 2008-2011.The study area located in Lalkuan, Kichha and Pantnagar. Sixty three ornamental plant species were found during study period which is also used as utilitarian. The number of plant species which was introduced from the other native places was 47. Ornamental plants play important roles in society, religion and science.

스페인의 축구와 지역감정문화

This study tried to seek historical meaning, content and value of Spanish soccer and regionalism culture. I considered existing research materials and literatures. And I collected data from watching soccer and communicating with natives in Spain. These are my conclusion of this study. First, I can advert to Fernando and Isabel’s wedding. Queen Isabel is from Castilla while King Fernando is from Aragon. They had different politic tendency and it leaded to regionalism. They were a married couple but ruled their own native place respectively. Isabel did her best as a queen of Spain but Fernando focused on abroad things. It became a beginning of regionalism. Second, I can advert to Franco`s dictatorial regime. At this time, El Clasico which is the most famous and popular soccer game among the world is made. El Clasico is a game between team Real Madrid sponsored by government and team FC Barcelona which includes the public`s resentment. So now we can know this game has Politics, regionalism, culture etc. Team Real Madrid was Franco regime itself. But team FC Barcelona was against Franco regime and faced discrimination and oppression of government. Especially, government oppressed Catalonia on language, culture and lives so Catalonian tried to resolve their resentment playing and watching soccer.

Female Migration, Education and Occupational Development: A Geospatial Analysis of Asian Countries

AbstractFeminization of international migration is a global phenomenon. One of the most significant trends in migration has been the entry of women into migration streams. The percentage of women in the migrant population has been increasing in the post war period and now women comprise majority of international migrants. Female immigration in Asia has been estimated to be about 45 per cent to total immigrants. Among all the sub-regions of Asia, Central Asia is the largest host of female immigrants leaving behind eastern Asia. In this article, an attempt has been made to find out the extent and pattern of female migration in 50 Asian countries and an analysis has been done to measure the levels of educational and occupational development of females with the help of selected indicators exploring the fact, whether the development of any nation plays an effective role in the movement of females from their native places. All the development indicators with well defined variables have been categorized in two broad categories such as educational and occupational development. For this purpose, composite Z-score technique was used for measuring the levels of development. Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation was applied to determine the relationship between female migration and their development.

Hero

Hero Mahesh Rao (bio) You must be curious about our world. I can understand that. You have probably heard all kinds of things: that we suffer savage beatings for the slightest of reasons; that we are secretive and follow our guru like fanatics; that at night there is dark mischief amongst the boys. In your place I would probably be curious too. But the truth is much more ordinary. We live here like any group of young men that has to follow a certain set of rules. We train, we pray, we spar, we dream. Is it really so different from anywhere else? There is a strict system for our daily life: the cooking, the sweeping, the washing. This morning Vikaas and I had to prepare the pit where we fight. We took it in turns, turning over the soil, lifting it out of the earth’s lap and then laying it back down. Vikaas steadied my arm as I dripped ghee over the mounds. “Not that much. It’s more than four hundred rupees a kilo now,” he said. “Oh,” I said. “And you’re supposed to say the mantra at the same time. Not later, when you feel like it.” He continued to watch me so I put the pot down: he could do it himself. I picked up the incense burner and trailed the curls of scent over the furrows of the pit, cupping the smoke with my hand, burying it in the ground. Vikaas opened his mouth as if to point out something else that I was doing wrong but I turned my back to him. Guruji likes things to be perfect but he does not bother to nitpick about the incense and the oil and the ghee. He is concerned with the important matters: our dedication to our practice, our faith in the life we have chosen, and our humility before God. He is serious and demanding but then what kind of a guru would he be otherwise? For more than a decade [End Page 121] he was the most celebrated wrestler in these parts, and his father and grandfather before him. But at our akhara you will not see photos of their glory days on the walls. “We must revere those who came before us but we must not lean on them. You are the future. I want to see your photos on these walls,” guruji says. I had been at the akhara for nearly two years when Ranjeet arrived. Even in his checked shirt you could see the kind of fighter he was made to be, the power and muscle marking time under his skin. It was hot that day. His lips were slightly parted and he blew softly into the air. It looked as if it was that gentle sigh that brought him to life, his own breath making a marble figure into a man. He had a detachment about him that none of us had ever seen in a new student. He threw his bag down on the ground as if he never gave much thought to where he slept or where he woke up. Even when he touched guruji’s feet, he did it with a sense of equality. None of us could stop looking at him. Guruji introduced him to us as the son of his sister, news that was unsettling because we wondered whether he would get special treatment in spite of guruji’s reputation for fairness. In the akhara, you have to know your place in relation to every other person there. A boy’s native place, family position and jaath; his ability in the pit and the number of times he has won at a dangal; his generosity, his weakness, his tact; you have to find out all these things without asking and then work them into the hours of practice, prayer and chores. A few of the boys stepped forward to tell Ranjeet their names and he half smiled and nodded but his expression said that their names were no concern of his. He shook hands with only two boys, appearing to pick at random. Dharam was one of them. He glanced at Dharam’s...

A Study on the Problems of Migrant Women Workers In Thuvakudi, Trichy District

This research study focuses on Socio Economic Condition and problems of Migrant Women Workers. The migrant women workers face several problems such as low wages, health hazards, sexual exploitation and denial of their fundamental rights. Through this study the researcher aims to analyze the life of these migrant women workers. The specific objectives of the study are to identify the occupational, economic status, child care services available, health problems and exploitation faced by the women migrant workers and the expectations of the migrant women workers. The research design used for this study is descriptive. The sampling strategy used is simple random through lottery method. Data was collected from 100 respondents using an interview schedule by directly interviewing the respondents. The study reveals that fifty eight percent of the respondents belonged to the age group of 20-40 years; sixty five percent of the respondents are married. Perhaps their family commitments after marriage forced the married persons to work. Majority ninety eight percent migrated within the state of Tamil Nadu, seventy six percent of the migrated from rural to urban area because of poverty, unemployment, less wages in their native place. Eighty seven percent say that safety programs are conducted to ensure the safety of the workers. Eighty seven percent say that they are not able to save money from their income. Forty six percent of the respondents were highly dissatisfied with their working conditions. Majority of the respondents, seventy six percent, did not receive social security benefits such as maternity benefits. Sixty six percent of the respondents expect education, child care, proper housing facilities from the government and the agency. The existing labor laws must be strictly enforced to save migrant women workers from exploitation and to receive their rightful wages. Making awareness of rights and policies of migrant workers women will definitely make a change in their lives in the future.

Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730–1865 by A. Glenn Crothers (review)

Reviewed by: Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730–1865 by A. Glenn Crothers Elizabeth R. Varon (bio) Keywords Southern history, Quakers, U.S Civil War, Slavery Quakers Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The Society of Friends in Northern Virginia, 1730–1865. By A. Glenn Crothers. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012. Pp. 372. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $31.95.) This newest volume in Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller’s Southern Dissent series deserves a wide readership. Prodigiously researched and expertly situated in the social, cultural, and military historiography, Crothers’s study of Quakers on the borderlands provides a revealing window into early American and southern history. Crothers makes a compelling case both for the Friends’ uniqueness and for their influence. Crothers’s story begins in the mid seventeenth century, as Quaker settlers from the Mid-Atlantic states moved south into Virginia, establishing meetings designed to embody their core conviction of the spiritual equality of all human beings. While their emphasis on simplicity was at odds with the ostentation of planter culture, Quakers thrived economically, thanks in part to their methods of mixed-grain crop farming. Even [End Page 128] as they achieved respectability, however, the Friends’ pacifism marked them as outsiders. Suspected of disloyalty and of aiding the British and fugitive slaves during the American Revolution and again during the War of 1812, Quakers chose not to retreat from their principles but acted instead to shore them up. State-led wartime repression sparked calls among Quakers for renewed discipline and doctrinal purity, and gave an added impetus to the nascent antislavery movement in their ranks. During the antebellum decades, the Quaker community in northern Virginia initially prospered but then faced the daunting challenge of maintaining its cohesion in the face of economic hard times, outmigration, and doctrinal schism. Professing a deep attachment to the Old Dominion, those who remained in Virginia sought to forge a reputation “as civic-minded southerners committed to the prosperity of the region” (239). The achievements of the Friends were considerable: They promoted infrastructure and agricultural improvements; they acted as civic boosters, sponsoring schools and literary and cultural institutions. In so doing, they helped to establish a southern middle class. But the shadow of slavery clouded their efforts. Quaker leaders such as Samuel Janney, Crothers explains, walked a fine line as antislavery southerners. They chose conservative tactics as the means to advance radical ideas: They envisioned a future in which blacks and whites would live together as equals in Virginia, yet espoused gradualism as the means to that end. They hoped to effect a change of heart among their proslavery neighbors by doggedly but calmly making the case for public education as an antidote to prejudice, and modernization as an antidote to northern Virginia’s economic decline. Tolerance for such arguments among slaveholders declined dramatically in the 1840s and 1850s, but Samuel Janney kept up his campaign, writing articles as “A Virginian” so as to emphasize his southernness, while touting the benefits of free labor over slave labor. Tellingly, one of Janney’s initiatives was to seek repeal of the 1806 law that required manumitted blacks to leave the state within their first year of freedom; Janney held that every person had the right to live in his or her native place, and he thereby recognized slaves as fellow Virginians. Activists such as Janney drew aid and inspiration from Quaker women, whose public authority was amplified over the course of the antebellum period. Crothers notes that Quakers were pioneers in advancing the doctrine of female moral superiority that was at the heart of domesticity; and pioneers, too, in drawing out the radical implications [End Page 129] of that doctrine. The rigorous education available to women at Friends’ schools instilled confidence, which Quaker women then translated into their own work as teachers of whites and of African Americans, as elders in meetings, and as ministers on the traveling circuit. Women were at the forefront of the Friends’ campaign against slavery, and female Quakers in Virginia, Crothers argues, rejected the “hierarchical social vision of white southerners, who identified racial and gender inequalities as interlocked pillars of southern...

An Asymptomatic Whitish Nodule on the Cheek of An Adult Male: What is Your Diagnosis?

A 28-year-old previously healthy male presented with a slowly progressive, mildly tender nodule over the right cheek since 6 months. There was no history of trauma prior to the onset of the lesion [Figure 1]. There was no history suggestive of connective tissue disorder. He was not on any medication and had not undergone any surgery. A dermatologist at his native place had diagnosed it as acne pustulosa. Our differential diagnoses were verruca, xanthoma, epidermoid cyst and giant molluscum contagiosum. The laboratory investigations revealed low-normal serum calcium and normal phosphorus levels. All other hematological and biochemical parameters were normal. The histopathology with the hematoxylin and eosin staining showed basophilic deposits in the dermis Figures 2-4.