Urban South India Research Articles

Water contamination in urban south India: household storage practices and their implications for water safety and enteric infections

Water contamination, at source and during household storage, is a major cause of enterically transmitted infections in developing countries. This study assessed contamination of the municipal water in a south Indian town, which obtains its water intermittently from a surface lake and by pumping subsurface water from a dry river bed, and monitored microbial contamination during household storage. All samples of the 'treated' municipal water were contaminated when freshly pumped, and on household storage, 25/37 (67%) showed increased contamination during storage periods from 1 to 9 days. Household storage in brass, but not in containers of other materials significantly decreased contamination of water (p = 0.04). This was confirmed in the laboratory by testing water seeded with 10(3) to 10(5) Escherichia coli per 100 ml stored in containers of different materials (p < 0.01). Despite the requirements for provision of safe drinking water in municipal areas, in practice the water supplied in Vellore is contaminated and current household storage practices increase the level of contamination in at least two-thirds of households. The implementation of locally appropriate point-of-use disinfection and safe household storage practices in developing countries is an urgent need to ensure a safe, reliable year-round supply in areas where clean water is not available.

Houston: Its Museums and Communities

Review Article| November 01 2003 Houston: Its Museums and Communities MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK MARY E. HANCOCK is review editor for The Public Historian and an associate professor in the Departments of Anthropology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research deals with public memory in southern India, and she is author of a forthcoming book, entitled Remembered Futures, Everyday Histories: Politics, Poetics, and Heritage in Urban South India. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2003) 25 (4): 95–97. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2003.25.4.95 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation MARY E. HANCOCK; Houston: Its Museums and Communities. The Public Historian 1 November 2003; 25 (4): 95–97. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2003.25.4.95 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentThe Public Historian Search This content is only available via PDF. ©© 2003 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.2003 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety.; Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India.; Women, Family, and Child Care in India: A World in Transition.:She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety.;Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India.;Women, Family, and Child

She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety. Srimati Basu. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 306 pp. Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. 286 pp. Women, Family, and Child Care in India:. World in Transition. Susan C. Seymour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.323 pp.

Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. By Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. xv, 286 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India. By Mary Elizabeth Hancock. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. xv, 286 pp. $75.00 (cloth).

Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual &amp; Public Culture in Urban South India, by Mary Hancock

Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual &amp; Public Culture in Urban South India, by Mary Hancock

Womanhood in the making: domestic ritual and public culture in urban South India

Introduction * Prologue: Making and Unmaking the Great Tradition * Tradition, Modernity, and Their Gendered Places Elite Cultures And Hybrid Modernities * Brokering Culture for the Nation * The Moral Etiquettes of Everyday Hinduism The World In The Home * The Ritualization of Womanhood * The Uncertain Subject(s) of Womanhood The Home In The World * Hinduism and the Spaces of Modernity * Urban Places and Female Spaces * Hindu Culture for an Indian Nation * Tradition Revisited

Foetal outcome in gestational diabetes in south Indians

The study was performed to reassess the prevalence of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in south Indians and to study the foetal outcome in women with GDM in comparison with normal pregnancies. In 1036 pregnant women, glucose tolerance was tested with 75-g oral glucose load, in the second or third trimester. Those with 2-h plasma glucose of ≥200 mg/dl were considered as diabetic (WHO Criteria). Those with 2-h values of 140–199 underwent a 3-h glucose tolerance test (GTT) with 100-g glucose load (O'Sullivan and Mahan criteria). GDM was diagnosed in nine women (0.87%) by this criteria. Foetal outcome in 211 GDM referred to the diabetes centre was compared with the outcome in 853 normal pregnancies. There were no cases of aborted pregnancy among the GDM, while six cases were reported among the normal glucose tolerance (NGT). Still birth and the number of premature babies were higher in GDM. Babies with birth weight ≥3.5 kg were more among the GDM ( P<0.001). There was no difference in the occurrence of congenital anomalies in the two groups. It was noted that congenital abnormalities in the foetus were more common among those born of mothers with higher plasma glucose (9 versus 1.1%). Multiple linear regression analyses in NGT and GDM showed that the birth weight of the baby was dependent on the plasma glucose and the body mass index of the mothers. The results of the present study show that the prevalence of GDM in urban south India was low, when the NDDG criteria was used. It also indicated that the WHO criteria may be more appropriate as the foetal outcome was determined by even a small rise in maternal plasma glucose. With good metabolic control in GDM, the foetal risks are very much reduced.

Unmaking the ‘great tradition’: Ethnography, national culture and area studies

This essay contextualizes and interrogates Milton Singer's When a Great Tradition Modernizes, an influential study of Sanskritic Hinduism and its elite exponents in urban south India. Singer's fieldwork (1954–1964) depended heavily on the assistance of an Indian Sanskritist, V. Raghavan. I focus on their collaboration as it is represented in the published works of both, and consider its implications for South Asia area studies in the US. In their reliance on ethnographic methods, area studies projects offered transnational sites for the consolidation of nationalist discourses—for while Raghavan strategically used ethnographic interactions to fashion and disseminate elite nationalism in India, Singer used India (as mediated by Raghavan) as a “case” in the formulation of civilizational studies and theories of modernization. Analysis of this case illuminates the current contradictions generated by area studies’ reliance on paradigms of nationhood. Deconstruction of the “nation” is coupled with reconstruction of national imaginaries and nationalist identity politics, and these contradictions are realized in both theoretical discourses and institutional practices.

Hindu culture for an Indian nation: gender, politics, and elite identity in urban south India

In this article I describe a south Indian social movement, headed by a Hindu preceptor. This movement relied on elite women members and on feminine religious idioms to solicit upper‐caste consent to Hindu nationalism; with that ideology, it naturalized caste inequalities and attempted to broker alliances between urban elites and the poor. The movement represented upper‐caste contestation for hegemonic power, but failed because of indeterminacies attached to its “education of consent” and anti‐Brahman political sentiment.

Human Agency and Divine Power: Transforming Images and Recreating Gods among the Newar

Previous articleNext article No AccessHuman Agency and Divine Power: Transforming Images and Recreating Gods among the NewarBruce McCoy OwensBruce McCoy Owens Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by History of Religions Volume 34, Number 3Feb., 1995Image and Ritual in Buddhism Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/463394 Views: 6Total views on this site Citations: 4Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1995 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Eliza F. Kent Bus-Stop Sami: Transient Temples in Urban South India, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal , no.1818 (Jul 2018).https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.4554Gérard Toffin Exposer/Voir, L'Homme , no.189189 (Jan 2009): 139–164.https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.22014Bruce McCoy Owens Envisioning Identity: Deity, Person, and Practice in the Kathmandu Valley, American Ethnologist 27, no.33 (Jan 2008): 702–735.https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2000.27.3.702Gérard Toffin Bibliographie, (): 175–183.https://doi.org/10.4000/books.editionsmsh.1577

Social Class and Marital Homogamy in Urban South India

Social Class and Marital Homogamy in Urban South India

Class, caste, and 'status summation' in urban South India

Class, caste, and 'status summation' in urban South India