A study of taste sensitivity of P.T.C. and colour blindness among the Brahmins of Sundarnagar of Himachal Pradesh was done. The t gene frequency was found to be 0.4391 in the total population, and that of colourblindness 3.093 % among the males. The results have been compared with the populations of Himalayan region of India. The trait of colour blindness among the populations of Himalayan regi...

1. Western Misinterpretations 1.1. Max Weber's Prebendal Bureaucracy 1.2. Karl Marx's Asiatic Mode of Production 1.3. Eisenstadt's Bureaucratic Empires 2. Comparisons: India and China 3. Indian and Chinese Evolution: Critical Comparisons 4. Confucian Brahmins and Kautilyan Mandarins 5. The European Evolution 5.1. The Roman Empire 5.2. Feudalism and the Catholic Church 5.3. Societal Evolution: F...

VERY little is known about the refractive state of populations in some of the technically underdeveloped countries of the world. What data there are from these parts have usually been collected in the course of an ophthalmic practice and are not representative of the population as a whole. Thorough studies have been made of very few groups, notably of palaenegrids by Holm (1937), Eskimos by Ske...

THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN THE genesis of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam1 which came into existence on September 17, 1949. Here we will focus mainly on political developments and socio-economic conditions in Tamil Nadu 2 from the middle of the last century till 1949. Specifically, the period under consideration involves an investigation of the emergence and evolutio...

But the conclusion that he arrives at is that the Marxian system is as much an idealistic system, an instrument of social reorganisation, as the Indian system of four varnas happened to be in the past. One may, of course, claim that Marx worked for 'human emancipation, while Mann worked for preserving the rights ami privileges of Brahmins. That is, however, an argument which can he modified and...

This study was undertaken to find out the trend of blood group distribution (ABO and Rh) among the 1310 Nepalese attended in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital Kathmandu. The frequency of distribution of A, B, AB and O was 28.5%, 27.3%, 8.7% and 35.5% respectively. Only 0.8% of them were found to be Rh (-) ve. In this population of study, O (+) ve...

irregular practitioners of medicine and surgery, who occupy to them the same relative position as quacks and bone-setters to European physicians and surgeons. The individuals referred to may be of any caste or profession, but are peculiar in one circumstance, that their skill has been exercised in the same line from father to son?often for many generations. The Brahmins, being as ready as their...