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Item Open Access Contested Spaces: Population Dynamics, the Refugees and Changing Social Landscape of Siliguri (1835 To 2011 C.E.)(University of North Bengal, 2016-03) Kumari, MinaksheeThe East India company in 1835 first acquired the nucleus of Darjeeling district from Raja of Sikkim, it was almost entirely under forest and particularly uninhabited. Although it was stated to have been inhabited probably a more accurate estimate was that these Hill tracks of 138 square miles contain the population of 100. The heavy forest and no communication facilities must have discouraged development and could have been a big obstruction for any increase of population. 1This research article traces how the population of Siliguri changed after independence and especially after the Indo Pakistan war when there was a huge flow of migration of people from surrounding areas and this totally altered the social landscape of the region.Item Open Access Health Seeking Behaviour among the Migrant Tribal Workers of Tea Plantation in Assam: Some Observations(University of North Bengal, 2016) Kar, R.K.In anthropology, emphasis is generally put on the group; and on the study of human beings within the framework of a culture. Every culture has its own notion regarding health and health seeking behaviour; and this is often referred to as Health Culture. The health of any community, particularly of a tribal community is a function of the interaction between cultural and biological practices, the genetic attributes and the environmental condition. It has long been recognized that Health Culture is a suitable field for ethnographic research in anthropology. In the paper, an attempt has been made to have an understanding of the health culture of the migrant tribal worker in Assam tea plantation with special reference to their health seeking behavior. The people generally subscribe to their own understanding of health, disease and disease etiology, as defined by their tradition and culture. With regard to disease etiology, they believe in both supernatural and natural forces. Some diseases are believed to be the outcome of the wrath of supernatural powers; and some are caused by natural factors. Their prolonged contact with the modern medicare system for around sixteen decades does not seem to have the desired impact on their overwhelming subscription to the traditional sub-culture of medicine. Despite the availability of modern medicare services at the door step, the people usually give priority to traditional or folk medicine. The inability of folk medicine to cure some ailments sometimes may compel them to avail of the services of the hospital or some other modern health practitioners. Sometimes, however, they continue both the treatments simultaneously. On the whole, till date, the migrant tribal tea workers in Assam are by and large, relatively more tradition-oriented with regard to their health seeking behaviour. Sometimes, however, both the traditional and the modern health care systems have been found to complement each other; and the people use both the systems apparently without any reservation or any feeling of contradiction.Item Open Access Problems of tea industry in Darjeeling hill areas with special reference to its sickness since independence(University of North Bengal, 1985) Syamroy, Bedprakas; Dasgupta, MItem Open Access Productivity stagnation in Darjeeling Tea industry and its implications for the plantation labourers(University of North Bengal, 2000) De, Swapan Kumar; Chakraborty, Milindo; Mukherjee, R S.Item Open Access Riddles of soil actinobacteria in tea gardens and selected other biotopes(University of North Bengal, 2022) Sen, Gargi; Bhattacharya, MalayItem Open Access A Study of the tea industry in North Bengal West Bengal India in its geographical perspective(University of North Bengal, 1977) Bhattacharya, Nirmalendu; Bhattacharya, BimalenduItem Open Access Tea industry and its associated problems in the Terai of Darjeeling district(University of North Bengal, 2006) Bhattacharya, Sreerupa.; Jana, M M.