Oral Presentations 881 Sponsored Sessions 900 Poster Presentations 902 Index 912 8th World Congress on Itch (WCI) 2015 September 27–29, 2015 at the Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA, Nara, Japan N A RA JA PA N 2 015 8th World Co ng re ss o n I t c h

561 Singh The British ruled India for more than 200 years, first in the name of the East India Company and then in the name of the British Crown. In the early period, the East India Company’s main interest was to obtain necessary raw materials, such as cotton and jute, for manufacturing finished goods in the United Kingdom, and other commodities, such as tobacco, sugar, indigo, and opium, for t...

This paper explores the provision of schooling in colonial India when British administrators dictated education policy. Although public and private funds were used to expand and improve the public education system, there were fewer than 3 primary schools for every 10 villages as late as 1911. To explore the impact of the funding system on the provision of schools, I empirically analyze the link...

In this paper, the use of two modals (can and may) in four varieties of English (British, India, Philippines, and USA) was compared and the characteristics of each variety were statistically analyzed. After all the sample sentences were extracted from each component of the ICE corpus, a total of twenty linguistic factors were encoded. Then, the collected data were statistically analyzed with R....