The Subaltern Voice in Sree Moolam Praja Sabha

2021 ◽  
pp. 2455328X2110257
Author(s):  
Greeshma Greeshmam
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Lower Caste ◽  
Social Customs ◽  
Indian State ◽  
State Legislative ◽  
Legislative Assembly

Sree Moolam Thirunaal Rama Varma, the ruling Maharaja of the Indian state of Travancore, instituted Sree Moolam Praja Sabha, also known as Sree Moolam Popular Assembly on 1 October 1904. The representatives of Sree Moolam Praja Sabha were selected from every section of society to address their grievances. Sree Moolam Sabha mainly consisted of landlords, merchants and their representatives. Those days, then existing social customs prevented the lower-caste people or the subaltern communities from participating in the Sree Moolam Praja Sabha. In the initial phase, there were representatives from each religion and caste, except the subaltern groups. Later, the Diwan attempted to include Dalits and other minority communities in the process of policy formulation as well as providing them with an essential role in their community development. Mahakavi Kumaran Asan, one of the triumvirate poets of modern Kerala was the nominated member of Sree Moolam Sabha, and he was one of the disciples of Sree Narayana Guru. Ayyankali was nominated to Sree Moolam Popular Assembly in 1912 because of his popularity among subaltern communities in the Thiruvithamkoore Kingdom. He had a record of being a nominated member in a legislative assembly for a consequtive period of 27 years, from 1912 to 1939, even before Independence. Ayyankali was the first Dalit representative who was nominatedto India’s first state (legislative) assembly, especially during the pre-independence period.

JUST HOW RISKY? COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL RISKS OF MISSION-BASED DEPOSITORY INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050023
Author(s):  
GREGORY B. FAIRCHILD ◽  
MEGAN E. JUELFS
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
Depository Institutions ◽  
Institutional Failure ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Predictive Likelihood

We examine the relative institutional failure risks for three sets of bank depositories: Community Development Banking Institutions (CDBIs), Minority Depositories (MDIs) and what we term Non-Mission Depository Institutions (NMDIs). CDBIs have primary missions of community development and serving underserved populations; MDIs are typically led by minorities and serve minority populations (a single institution can be both a CDBI and an MDI, either or neither). In this analysis, NMDIs represent all other depository banks. Given their operation within lower-income and minority communities, MDIs and CDBIs appear, prima facie, to face greater institutional failure risks. We examine these risks across each set of institutions, ceteris paribus. Utilizing data from a number of sources, including the Reports of Condition and Income (call reports) for a substantial set of FDIC-insured banks in the United States, we apply a modified Capital, Assets, Management, Earnings and Liquidity model (CAMEL) to measure the predictive likelihood of failure. Recognizing that MDIs are not homogeneous, we also examine relative institutional failure across types of depositories. The results indicate that CDBIs and MDIs are systematically at lower failure risks and that there are differences across service designations.

Refugees and Their Displaced Documents of Identity

2018 ◽  
pp. 90-162
Author(s):  
Tarangini Sriraman
Keyword(s):  
Colonial State ◽  
Lower Caste ◽  
Displaced Populations ◽  
Self Recognition ◽  
Collateral Evidence ◽  
Identification Documents ◽  
Indian State

This chapter begins by posing the question, how did the Indian state classify refugees as poor, displaced, and lower caste and how did it create the material infrastructure of identifying welfare beneficiaries? The Partition, which brought in its wake a sea of displaced populations that deluged both countries, threw up conundrums of identification that straddled the philosophical and the feasible, the material and the intangible. Given that there were no pre-existing genres of recognizing the refugee figure so alien to the memory of the colonial state, civic and rehabilitation authorities had no choice but to accept and privilege alternative or ‘collateral evidence’ that emerged from the makeshift documents and narrated itineraries of refugees and refugee associations. While focusing its inquiries on a smaller universe of those disparagingly termed ‘refugee squatters’ in post-Partition Delhi and their housing claims, the present chapter seeks to show how refugee knowledge and popular practices of self-recognition were salient to the fashioning of identification documents.

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller women: how community work can both challenge and contribute to gender inequalities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Notcutt
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Community Work ◽  
Industrial Estate ◽  
The Uk

This chapter presents an account of the author's community development work with Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller (GRT) women in the East of England from 2010 to 2016. It summarises a range of observations, reflections, and questions gathered throughout this prolonged period of practice, with a view to informing the work of others working with GRT people, regarded as the most disadvantaged minority communities in the UK. Situated on the margins of a large urban settlement and nestled between motorways, an industrial estate, and sizeable swathes of unsightly marshland lies a 27-pitch local authority caravan site. Practically unnoticeable to passers-by in their cars, trucks, and lorries, it is home to families and individuals belonging to GRT communities in the region of East Anglia. In 2009, new Neighbourhood Management initiatives were developed in East Anglia, in one of which the author was employed as a community development worker.

Minority Electoral Politics in a North Indian State: Aggregate Data Analysis and the Muslim Community in Bihar, 1952–1972

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 1275-1287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry W. Blair
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Legislative Assembly

Frequent elections and a long tradition of census taking in India should combine to provide excellent scope for aggregate data analysis, but so far they have not, largely because the electoral constituencies and the census tracts do not match. A number of ways have been devised to surmount the problem, none of them very satisfactory. This paper offers a new solution in the form of isoplethic mapping, a method that avoids the shortcomings of other approaches and permits use of demographic and voting data at the level of the state legislative assembly constituency.Substantively the paper traces patterns of voting for Muslim candidates to the Bihar Legislative Assembly and the relationship between Muslim population distribution and vote polled by different political parties over six elections. Instead of becoming more integrated over time within the general body politic, it appears that the Muslim minority group has become more politically cohesive and better able to elect Muslims to office where their numbers are strong. At the same time, Muslims have become less able to win elections where they are fewer in numbers. This tendency has not reached a state of political polarization between the Hindu and Muslim communities, however.

Applying Anthropology in Brazil: Professionalism and the Commitment to Social Action

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Forline
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Action ◽  
North American ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Political Advocacy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Se

The practice of anthropology in Brazil has a long history of engagement with local communities, development projects and political advocacy. While the practical aspects of the discipline do not fall under any special rubric of "applied," per se, Brazilian anthropologists have been actively involved in lobbying, policy formulation, community development, and advocacy. These activities are often embraced as a distinct subfield of the discipline of anthropology by their North American counterparts. However, although they are quite evident in Brazil, these activities have never been termed as a special component of Brazilian Anthropology. Thus, while unnamed, applied anthropology in Brazil has been part and parcel of the profession almost since its inception.

scholarly journals A Brief Analysis of First Time Winners in Mizoram State Legislative Assembly Polls (2003 To 2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Joseph C. Lalremruata
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
First Time ◽  
State Legislative ◽  
Legislative Assembly

It is interesting to state that half of the elected MLAs (20 out of 40) in the 2018-Mizoram State Legislative Assembly election were the candidates who got victory in their first time. This paper analyses the first time winners of MLA candidates in Mizoram particularly from the Fifth to Eight State Legislative Assembly polls (2003 to 2018). It also analyses Mizoram Assembly elections and political parties in brief.

scholarly journals CXCL12-abundant Reticular Cells are the Major Source of IL-6 Upon LPS-stimulation and Thereby Regulate Hematopoiesis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahel Gerosa ◽  
Steffen Boettcher ◽  
Larisa Vladimirovna Kovtonyuk ◽  
Annika Hausmann ◽  
Wolf-Dietrich Hardt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Initial Phase ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Cell Populations ◽  
Cell Contact ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Gene Expression Analyses ◽  
Stem And Progenitor Cells ◽  
Reticular Cells

Hematopoiesis is maintained by hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) that are located in the bone marrow (BM) where they are embedded within a complex supportive microenvironment, consisting of a multitude of various non-hematopoietic and hematopoietic cell types. The BM microenvironment not only regulates steady-state hematopoiesis by provision of growth factors, cytokines and cell-cell contact but is also an emerging key player during the adaptation to infectious and inflammatory insults (emergency hematopoiesis). Through a combination of gene expression analyses in prospectively isolated non-hematopoietic BM cell populations and various mouse models we have revealed that BM CXCL12-abundant reticular (CAR) cells are a major source of systemic and local BM IL-6 levels during emergency hematopoiesis following lipopolysaccharide (LPS) stimulation. Importantly, while IL-6 is dispensable during the initial phase of LPS-induced emergency hematopoiesis, it is required to sustain an adequate hematopoietic output during chronic-repetitive inflammation. Our data highlight the essential role of the non-hematopoietic BM microenvironment for the sensing and integration of pathogen-derived signals into sustained demand-adapted hematopoietic responses.

scholarly journals Etika Legislatif untuk Wakil Rakyat

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rais Yatim
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
The Future ◽  
State Legislative ◽  
Legislative Assembly

This paper recommends that members of the legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as Members of the State Legislative Assembly (ADUN), be swaddled by a Legislative Ethics. This matter should be made compulsory considering that negative influence has begun to take root among the Honourable Members. If this trend goes unchecked, the Parliament and the State Legislative Assembly (DUN) will soon emerge as institutions eclipse in values and virtues or will be seen as institutions with eroding values and virtues. The future integrity of the nation must be assured. This can be achieved if the character and conduct of the Malaysian legislature are being guided in a positive manner.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document