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Food Security ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dileep Kumar Pandey ◽  
Kalkame Ch Momin ◽  
Shantanu Kumar Dubey ◽  
Poovaragavalu Adhiguru

2022 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Raghumani Singh ◽  
Arka Rudra ◽  
Sh Priyokumar Singh ◽  
Suryendu Dutta ◽  
M Sapana Devi ◽  
...  

Ardea ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 109 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sangeeth Sailas ◽  
S. Babu ◽  
P. Pramod ◽  
P.V. Karunakaran ◽  
H.N. Kumara

2021 ◽  
pp. 025764302110421
Author(s):  
Sanghamitra Misra

The discourse around indigeneity, customary rights of possession and claims to political autonomy in Northeast India conventionally traces the postcolonial protectionist legislation for ‘tribes’ to various acts passed under the late colonial state, the most significant precursor being seen as the Government of India Act, 1935. This article will argue that one can in fact trace the ‘original moment’ in the idea of customary law for ‘tribes’ much further back in history, to the early decades of the nineteenth century. This historical moment was anchored in the beginnings of the East India Company’s conquest of the Garo hills in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in the appropriation of the land and revenue of the Garos and in the ethnogenesis of the ‘hill Garo’. The article will explore the ways in which the beginning of the invention of customary law and traditional authority in Northeast India under East India Company rule was impelled by the Company’s demands for revenue and was shielded and secured by the deployment of military power across the hills. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the strategies of imperial control first introduced in the region were reproduced across the rest of Northeast India, underscoring the significance of the Garo hills as the first ‘laboratory’ of colonial rule in the region as well as sharpening our understanding of the character of the early colonial state. The article thus takes as its task the historicization of the categories of ‘customary law’, ‘traditional/indigenous authority’ and the ‘hill tribe’, all of which form the basis of late colonial and postcolonial legislation on the ‘tribe’.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Kupar Lyngdoh Tron ◽  
Duwaki Rangad ◽  
Wankitlang Shangpliang ◽  
Baiakmenlang Manners ◽  
Iasyllok Rynjah

The state of Meghalaya is situated in the north-eastern India and it comprises three major regions, namely, the Khasi Hills, the Jaintia Hills and the Garo Hills inhabited by three main tribal groups, the Khasis, the Jaintias and the Garos respectively. The tribal communities of Meghalaya protect and nurture the forests located close to their habitation and consider them as sacred. These Community reserved forests are managed by the community for their benefits and they comprise almost about 90% of the total forest cover in Meghalaya. With the recent trends of development and construction in the state many habitats are getting destroyed at an alarming rate. These community reserve forests have been seen to provide the maximum number of existing and stable habitats for many amphibian (anuran) species. In addition, they served as suitable sites for the breeding activities and oviposition by anurans. Discovery of many new anuran species have also been reported from such reserved forests.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-303
Author(s):  
MANOJ KUMAR ◽  

In order to examine the current status of soil acidity in Meghalaya, representative soil samples (n= 497) were collected (during 2015-2016) from across the state and analyzed for soil acidity and associated parameters. Averaged across the samples, pH of the soils was found to be very strongly acidic (4.94). Nearly 20 % of the soils had pH below 4.50, 59% below pH 5.0 and 80% below pH 5.50. Only 3.4% of the samples recorded pH more than 6.0. East Khasi Hills District had the maximum percentage (95.1%) of strongly acidic soils (pH ≤ 5.50) while Garo Hills had the least (50.2%). All other districts recorded more than 85% of the strongly acidic soils. Average exchangeable acidity, exchangeable Al and effective CEC were found to be 1.60, 1.27 and 3.86 meq/100g soil, respectively. Mean base saturation was recorded below 60%. Aluminium saturation (percentage of effective CEC being occupied by exch. Al) ranged from 1.5 to 79.7% with its mean value being as high as 33%. Principal component analysis provided three PCs with Eigen values >1 and together they explained 83.2 % of the variance in total dataset. The soil acidity in Meghalaya is on rise, with 80.2% of its soils being strongly acidic (pH ≤ 5.50) in contrast to the previous reports of 53% soils being strongly acidic. This calls for widespread adoption of soil acidity ameliorative measures in agriculture of Meghalaya, Northeast India.


2021 ◽  
pp. 177-196
Author(s):  
Rachunliu G. Kamei

Recent taxonomic and systematic research on Cyrtodactylus khasiensis has found that this nomen comprises a large number of superficially similar but deeply divergent species-level taxa from throughout north-east India and surrounding countries. In this study we focus on the taxonomic status of recently surveyed populations from the East Garo Hills and West Garo Hills districts and a single specimen collected from Ri Bhoi District in Meghalaya State, north-east India. Based on a combination of morphological and molecular data we found that the Ri Bhoi specimen is conspecific with the recently described C. urbanus, and that the Garo Hills populations represent a new species of Cyrtodactylus described herein. Molecular analyses (using the NADH dehydrogenase 2, nd2 and adjoining tRNA genes) demonstrate that the new species is nested within the khasiensis group of the Indo-Burma radiation of Cyrtodactylus, and is well-supported as sister to a clade that comprises C. septentrionalis and C. guwahatiensis. We morphologically compare the new C. urbanus specimen with the original description of the species, identify a number of errors and ambiguities in the original description, and notably expand the known morphological variation for the species based on 23 characters. The discovery of an endemic new species of lizards from the Garo Hills further highlights the region as an overlooked centre of biodiversity importance. We discuss several misidentifications in the literature of other reptile species from the region emphasising the need for further attention by taxonomists to review the herpetofauna of the Garo Hills.


Author(s):  
Y. Raghumani Singh ◽  
Mark B. Abbott ◽  
T. Elliot Arnold ◽  
Sh. Priyokumar Singh
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2021 ◽  
pp. 567-583
Author(s):  
Sunildro L.S. Akoijam

The purpose of this paper is to examine the economic impacts of the weekly market participation by farmers cum sellers in their livelihood. Data were collected from farmers cum sellers who participated in the weekly markets located in Garo Hills region of Meghalaya state in India. Altogether 530 farmers (5 farmers each from 106 weekly markets) participated in the interview process through semi structured schedule for collecting the data. ANOVA and Chi Square test were used to analyse the data. Findings indicate that farmers participating in the weekly markets by selling their agricultural products; are able to earn a sustainable income for their livelihood. With their continuous participation in the weekly markets, their economic status of their family is also improved.


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