Mycological Profile and Prevalence of Superficial Mycoses Agents: A Study from North India

Focusing on the lithographic print revolution in North India, this article analyses the role played by scribes working in Perso-Arabic script in the consolidation of late nineteenth-century vernacular literary cultures. In South Asia, the rise of lithographic printing for Perso-Arabic script languages and the slow shift from classical Persian to vernacular Urdu as a literary register took place roughly contemporaneously. This article interrogates the positionality of scribes within these transitions. Because print in North India relied on lithography, not movable type, scribes remained an important part of book production on the Indian subcontinent through the early twentieth century. It analyses the education and models of employment of late nineteenth-century scribes. New scribal classes emerged during the transition to print and vernacular literary culture, in part due to the intervention of lithographic publishers into scribal education. The patronage of Urdu-language scribal manuals by lithographic printers reveals that scribal education in Urdu was directly informed by the demands of the print economy. Ultimately, using an analysis of scribal manuals, the article contributes to our knowledge of the social positioning of book producers in South Asia and demonstrates the vitality of certain practices associated with manuscript culture in the era of print.

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Chad Bauman, Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India; Meenakshi Jain, Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse; Arun Jones, Missionary Christianity and Local Religion: American Evangelicalism in North India, 1836–1870

Studies in World Christianity ◽

10.3366/swc.2018.0222 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 179-182

Author(s):

Chandra Mallampalli

Keyword(s):

North India ◽

Colonial Discourse ◽

Local Religion ◽

American Evangelicalism

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Emerging Antimicrobial Resistance Among Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) in a Tertiary Care Centre in North India

JMS SKIMS ◽

10.33883/jms.v23i1.747 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 48-49

Author(s):

Javaid Ahmad Bhat ◽

Shariq Rashid Masoodi

Keyword(s):

Staphylococcus Aureus ◽

Antimicrobial Resistance ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Resistance Mechanisms ◽

North India ◽

Global Public Health ◽

Care Centre ◽

Tertiary Care Centre ◽

Effective Prevention ◽

Mupirocin Resistance

Apropos to the article by Dr Bali, titled “Mupirocin resistance in clinical isolates of methicillin-sensitive and resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary care centre of North India” (1), the authors have raised important issue of emerging antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society. As per WHO, AMR lurks the effective prevention and management of an ever-increasing spectrum of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, fungi and viruses. Novel resistance mechanisms are emerging and spreading globally, threatening the man’s ability to treat common infectious diseases.

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