IOSR-JHSS   Volume-6 ~ Issue-3 ~ Jan-Feb-2013

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Morpho-Metric Analysis of Kunah Khad, Himachal Pradesh
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Dr. Sanjay Kumar
	:	10.9790/0837-0630109

Abstract:Water is vital to life without which no living bodies can survive. It is also indispensable for economic prosperity and overall development of a nation. As such, water is considered as a prime natural resource, a basic human need and a valuable national asset. Due to the rapid increase in the population, demand for food increased and as a result to increase the production, irrigation activities spread and demand for water increased. The water is not automatically available because its renewability is governed by the ecological process that gives stability to the water cycle. The seasonal rainfall last for few days in most part of the country. This seasonal rainfall has mad impact on agriculture and social life. Frequent droughts have made it necessary to employ various water conservation methods; including traditional ones.

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Abstract:This article advocates a revolutionary approach to the problem of mass impoverishment in Nigeria. Since such a possibility is remote and forlorn without the unity of ordinary Christians and Muslims who constitute the majority in the country, both Christianity and Islam are traced to their revolutionary conclusions. In other words, the question of compatibility of each of the two religions with revolutionary wisdom is addressed, towards sensitising ordinary Nigerian Christians and Muslims on the sanctity of redemptive revolution. Poverty, hunger, and misery don't distinguish between Christians and Muslims, and those who are colluding in the mass exploitation of ordinary Nigerians are some Christians and Muslims. Unless the mass of ordinary Christians and Muslims unite against their exploiters who use religion as a means of divide and rule, paradigm may never shift in favour of the impoverished majority. The conceptual framework derives from a form of liberation theology that coincides with some (not all of) Marxist revolutionary orientation. It found seeds of revolution in the teaching and practice of both Jesus and Muhammad. It, therefore, calls on ordinary Christians and Muslims in Nigeria to unite and oppose, revolutionarily, mass impoverishment that is based on inhumanity of human beings to human beings.

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Abstract:The aim of this paper is to explore the history of the Rajput rulers of Jaipur through the entry point of its Rajlok. The term Rajlok literally means the space inhabited by large number of queens, concubines, mistresses, patar, other inmates like baiji (princesses) and kawar (prince). Clearly, it was a site of restricted sexuality but excessive filial relationships. The status of ladies was well defined in a hierarchical order. The mother queen i.e. Majee Sahib genially controlled the happenings within the Rajlok. The power of majee sahib was not only confined to the domestic arenas it even extended in to the court and influenced the political shifts. Marriage alliances were forged for political and territorial gains. The queens were identified by their clan names not their personal names. Frequent visits of members from natal family to rajlok were striking feature. The nexus of rajlok not only influenced the marriage alliances with important rajput dynasties but also helped in carving political ambitions. Their chiefs (thikanedars) did same with non-kachhwah clans. The rajlok was also a site for king (Shree jee, huzur, maharajadhiraj) to welcome and bestow honor to the thikanedars. Whenever the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of prominent thikanedar visited rajlok they were presented with gifts and money. On various festivals like teej, rakhi, diwali, dusshera and holi these ladies visited the rajlok. On many occasions ladies of chiefs were also invited. Clearly, relationships between royalty and families of chieftains were cemented through exchange of gifts and presents and by honoring them. The extended rituals performed in court and rajlok depict the hierarchy of thikanas. Thus, these religious happenings and festivals had connotation of political rituals.
Keywords: Padhravan, Rajlok, Sukh Niwas, Seekh, Thikanedars, Zenani Deodhi.

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Abstract:The Tai-Phakes who belong to the great Tai race entered Assam in the 18th century and gradually settled in nine villages in Tinsukia and Dibrugarh districts. Namphake village situated few kilometers from the town of Naharkatiya in Dibrugarh district is one of the earliest Tai-Phake villages. Just like any other community, the Tai-Phake community has also been influenced by modernism , however, it has been able to maintain its ethnicity with respect to marriage, dress, family, religion .This has been possible due to the attitude of the people towards their culture and also due to the strong desire and efforts of these people to preserve their culture in spite of the effects of modernization and globalization.
Keywords: community, culture, ethnicity, race, Tai-Phake

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Abstract: Chennai city is the forth largest metropolis. It has a population of 46.81 lakh by 2011 census; it is expected to grow more by 50.08 lakh. Considerable proportion of migrated population particularly in large and metropolitan cities lives in marginal settlements, slums and squatter areas with limited infrastructure services threatening health, environmental degradation of urban areas, traffic and other problems of urban areas. The study describes the factors contributing towards rural to urban migration. In rural areas, less employment opportunities, low wages, drought, lack of basic amenities, landlessness, social factors act as push factors and more employment opportunities, higher income, better wages, better facilities activities as pull factors towards the rural to urban migration

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Rural To Urban Migration in an Indian Metropolis: Case Study Chennai City
Country	:	India
Authors	:	K.Vinayakam, S.P.Sekar
	:	10.9790/0837-0633235

Abstract: Chennai city is the forth largest metropolis. It has a population of 46.81 lakh by 2011 census, it is expected to grow more by 50.08 lakh in 2012. Considerable proportion of migrated population particularly in large and metropolitan cities lives in marginal settlements, slums and squatter areas with limited infrastructure services threatening health, environmental degradation of urban areas, traffic and other problems of urban areas. The study describes the factors contributing towards rural to urban migration. In rural areas, less employment opportunities, low wages, drought, lack of basic amenities, landlessness, social factors act as push factors and more employment opportunities, higher income, better wages, better facilities activities as pull factors towards the rural to urban migration

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Quality of Life and Impressions of Quality of Life of Migrants to Chennai: A Factor Analysis Approach
Country	:	India
Authors	:	K.Vinayakam, S.P.Sekar
	:	10.9790/0837-0633645

Abstract:This paper has the purpose of assessing quality of life of migrants of Chennai city using 14 variables measured with Likert-type of scaling in a factor analysis. As many as 305 randomly chosen migrant-respondents from across the city have been interviewed using a custom-designed, structured questionnaire in 2012. The analysis has yielded two very neat and significant factor dimensions, labeled as 'Quality of Life Dimension' and 'Well-being in Life and Work Dimension'. The two factors, retained in the analysis using the eigenvalue criterion, explain a cumulative variance of 49.434 per cent. The rotated factor scores have shown that 47.4 per cent of the migrants of Chennai are on the better side of quality of life whereas 45.6 per cent of them are on the higher side of well-being in their life and work. In their revealed perceptions of quality of life and well-being in life and work, there is yet much to be accomplished and there are challenges in city life they could face up to.
Keywords: Quality of life, Well-being, Life and work, Megacities, Urbanization, Migrants of Chennai, Factor Analysis Approach

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Hazardous Slums: A Case Study on Visakhapatnam city
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Dr. Ch. Subha kumar, Ch. Guru Prasad
	:	10.9790/0837-0634652

Abstract:Almost 32 percent of the world Urban population lived in slums, the majority of them in the developing world. The proportion of the urban population living in slums is about seven times as high in less developed countries percent and in more developed countries (6 percent). Welfare governments pushes the social overhead capitals allocate foundlings for development for slum environment improvement programmes but some of the slums are belongings to mostly hazardous areas like hilly areas, around with dirty urban slums, highly congested areas, near railway tracks and bank of main drainages these kind of slums are impossible to improve the quality of life so these are called hazardous slums. In my research study was conducted to the hazardous areas among families residing in urban slums of Visakhapatnam city. A comprehensive questionnaire-cum-interview schedule was designed to collect information 500 were collect from hazardous slum areas by simple random techniques the results revealed that among the selected families majority of the respondents.
Key Words - Developing world, Environment, Hazardous Slum, social overhead capital,welfare.

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