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Women in Ochre Robes

Gendering Hindu Renunciation

By: Meena Khandelwal

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Women in Ochre Robes

Gendering Hindu Renunciation

By: Meena Khandelwal

Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who wear "ochre robes," signifying their renunciation of marriage and family for lives of celibacy, asceticism, and spiritual discipline. While the largely male Hindu ascetic tradition of sannyasa renders its initiates ritually "dead" to their previous identities, the women portrayed here are very much alive. They struggle with, and joke about, the tensions and ironies of living in the world while trying not to be of it. Khandelwal juxtaposes the common refrain that "in renunciation there is no male and female" with arguments that underscore the importance of gender. In exploring these apparent contradictions, she brings together worldly and otherworldly values within renunciation and argues that these create tensions that are at once emotional, social, and philosophical.

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State University of New York Press

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0791485951

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9780791485958

Cookstove Chronicles

Social Life of a Women's Technology in India

By: Meena Khandelwal

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Cookstove Chronicles

Social Life of a Women's Technology in India

By: Meena Khandelwal

Cookstove Chronicles examines India's handcrafted, wood-burning cooking stoves, the rural women who use them, and outsiders who try to improve them by engineering a range of "clean" cooking devices. Khandelwal adopts a transnational feminist, anthropological, and STS perspective to reimagine the humble mud stove as both villain and hero of this story and to suggest pathways for collaboration across radical disciplinary divides.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816552959

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9780816552955

Powdery Mildew Disease of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

By: Govind Singh Saharan,Naresh K. Mehta,Prabhu Dayal Meena

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Powdery Mildew Disease of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

By: Govind Singh Saharan,Naresh K. Mehta,Prabhu Dayal Meena

Powdery mildew disease is the fourth most widespread disease in cruciferous crops and a devastating effect, causing significant losses in terms of quality and quantity in rapeseed and mustard. Powdery mildews are also a favourable host-pathosystem model for basic research on host–parasite interactions, developmental morphology, cytology, and molecular biology to identify the effector proteins/genes governing different biological functions. This book provides a comprehensive overview of all the published information in the field for researchers, teachers, students, extension experts, industrialists and farmers, and includes illustrations, photographs, graphs, figures, tables, histograms, micrographs, electron micrographs, and flow charts to aid understanding. It also describes standardized reducible techniques. The book discusses each disease in detail, describing the distribution, symptomatology, host range, yield losses and disease assessment, as well as the taxonomy, morphology, phylogeny, variability, sporulation, survival and perpetuation of the pathogen. Further, it explores topics such as spore germination; infection; pathogenesis; disease cycle; epidemiology; forecasting; fine structures; host resistance; biochemical, histological, genetic and molecular aspects such as cloning and mapping of R genes; sources of resistance; disease resistance breeding; and the genetics of host-parasite interactions and disease management.

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Springer Nature

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9811398534

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9789811398537

Women in Ochre Robes

Gendering Hindu Renunciation

By: Meena Khandelwal

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Gendering Hindu Renunciation

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Alternaria Diseases of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

By: Gobind Singh Saharan,Naresh Mehta,Prabhu Dayal Meena

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Alternaria Diseases of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

By: Gobind Singh Saharan,Naresh Mehta,Prabhu Dayal Meena

This book deals with the various aspects viz., the disease, geographical distribution, symptoms on different hosts, host range, yield losses, and disease assessment method, while detailed description on pathogen include taxonomic position, phylogeny, variability, sporulation, perpetuation, and spore germination, host-parasite interactions in the form of seed infection, disease cycle, process of infection, and pathogenesis, epidemiology, forecasting, fine structures, biochemical changes, and phytotoxins, host defence mechanism, techniques to study host-parasite relationships, and management practices including cultural, chemical, biological control practices, and deployment of host resistance. The last section deals with gaps in our understanding, and knowledge about management of these diseases, techniques for the diagnosis of disease and offer suggestions for future research priorities. Each aspect has been vividly illustrated with photographs, histograms, figures, tables, electron micrographs for stimulating, effective and easy reading and understanding. We are sure that this comprehensive encyclopaedic treatise on "Alternaria diseases of crucifers” will be of immense use to the researchers, teachers, students and all others who are interested in the diagnosis and management of Alternaria diseases of crucifers world over. Four species of Alternaria are wide spread and most devastating on cruciferous oil yielding crops, vegetables, forage crops, ornamental plants, and numerous weeds all over the world. The damage to the plants is in the form of infections on seed in the soil during sowing, on seedlings during emergence and growth, on stem, leaves, inflorescence, pods and finally to the seed causing yield losses in seed quantity and quality.

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9811000212

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Cookstove Chronicles

Social Life of a Women's Technology in India

By: Meena Khandelwal

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Social Life of a Women's Technology in India

By: Meena Khandelwal

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Women in Ochre Robes

Women in Ochre Robes

Cookstove Chronicles

Cookstove Chronicles

Powdery Mildew Disease of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

Powdery Mildew Disease of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

Women in Ochre Robes

Women in Ochre Robes

Alternaria Diseases of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

Alternaria Diseases of Crucifers: Biology, Ecology and Disease Management

Cookstove Chronicles

Cookstove Chronicles

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