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Papers by artatrana gochhayat
International Conference on Bioinformatics, 2014
Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retentio... more Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retention of their primordial identities, but also acceptance into the larger society. The growing regional disparities in India, arising out of language, religion, caste, tribe and socio-economic underdevelopment, have generated stress between the majority and minority groups. This has posed a new set of issues for multiculturalism, whose principal presumption is that conflicts emerge within societies primarily due to the minority groups feeling excluded in terms of benefitting less than the majority group from the overall process of socio-economic development. In the context of multiculturalism, the categories of majority and minority are related to issues of cultural discrimination and marginalization due to the kind of public endorsement each receives as expressed in national public culture. It is in this context that the paper tries to draw a link between multiculturalism and sub-regionalism and its resultant impact on the state politics of Odisha. An attempt has also been made in this paper to examine how far and to what extent sub-regionalism, despite the existence of many other multicultural elements, pose a grave challenge to the state politics of Odisha, along with some suggestive measures and policies.
IOSR journal of humanities and social science, 2013
Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developi... more Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developing countries like India. Not a single day passes without papers reporting on violation of human rights in India. The vulnerable sections like dalits, adivasis, women, children, minorities and other groups are discriminated without any fault of their own. In this paper, an attempt has been made to highlight on the theoretical analysis of the violation of human rights of Dalits particularly in Odisha. But how the human rights of such Dalit people are being violated despite extensive constitutional and legal protections against such violations? This is the chief objective of this paper. I.
Panchayati Raj Institutions have always been considered as a means to good governance and 73 rd C... more Panchayati Raj Institutions have always been considered as a means to good governance and 73 rd Constitutional Amendment was effected in the hope that it would lead to better governance and provide political space to the disadvantaged sections of the society like Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women. The present study was an effort to know the extent of political participation of women in functioning as well as in the electoral process of the panchayats and the problems faced by them. In this regard, sample consisted of 125 women respondents from 5 gram panchayats of Hindol Block in Dhenkanal District of Odisha. The study was conducted in March-April immediately after the general panchayat elections in February, 2012. The findings of the study revealed that political participation of women in the functioning as well as in the electoral process of the panchayats is not satisfactory. Some of the respondents even do not know the names of political parties and they casted their votes identifying the symbols of political parties. Most of the women have great apathy towards politics. The parochial culture, patriarchal society and low level of education are greatly responsible for their backwardness.
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, Feb 28, 2014
Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political... more Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political system. As the various developmental programs are carried out, regional disparities are already becoming more marked and widespread engendering a sense of cumulative deprivations in the people of certain regions. This, coupled with increasing politicisation in the community, is sure to impart sharper focus to regionalism which would emerge more prominently as a factor of significance in Indian polity. Further, internal self-determination has remained the predominant form in which regionalism and sub-regionalism has sought to express itself. However, an attempt has been made in this paper to focus on the theoretical perspectives of regionalism and to find out how far and to what extent regionalism and sub-regionalism poses a challenge to the national politics in India asserting autonomy and self-determination and what are the basic factors influencing regionalism and subregionalism in the sub-continent. The paper concludes with some recent issues of regionalism in different parts of the country.
Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retentio... more Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retention of their primordial identities, but also acceptance into the larger society. The growing regional disparities in India, arising out of language, religion, caste, tribe and socio-economic underdevelopment, have generated stress between the majority and minority groups. This has posed a new set of issues for multiculturalism, whose principal presumption is that conflicts emerge within societies primarily due to the minority groups feeling excluded in terms of benefitting less than the majority group from the overall process of socio-economic development. In the context of multiculturalism, the categories of majority and minority are related to issues of cultural discrimination and marginalization due to the kind of public endorsement each receives as expressed in national public culture. It is in this context that the paper tries to draw a link between multiculturalism and sub-regionalis...
International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM), 2017
Political participation simply refers to the way through which the citizens of a country take par... more Political participation simply refers to the way through which the citizens of a country take part in the electoral as well as in policy making process. In other words, political participation is a way or a process through which the aspirations and needs of the people can be represented. Generally, the term “political participation” refers to those voluntary activities by which members of a society share in the selection of rulers and directly or indirectly in the formation of public policy. These activities include casting votes, seeking information, holding discussions, attending meetings, staging strikes and demonstrations, communicating with the legislators and the like. Women constitute more or less than half of the population of any country. Women have to recognize, collectively and critically, the forces that limit them and to work collectively and continuously to change the unequal power structure. The family, community and state should together create a situation wherein el...
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013
Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developi... more Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developing countries like India. Not a single day passes without papers reporting on violation of human rights in India. The vulnerable sections like dalits, adivasis, women, children, minorities and other groups are discriminated without any fault of their own. In this paper, an attempt has been made to highlight on the theoretical analysis of the violation of human rights of Dalits particularly in Odisha. But how the human rights of such Dalit people are being violated despite extensive constitutional and legal protections against such violations? This is the chief objective of this paper. I.
Contemporary Voice of Dalit
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) was not only the messiah of the downtrodden people in India... more Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) was not only the messiah of the downtrodden people in India but was also the champion of minority rights, women’s rights, farmer’s and labourer’s rights. He was an individualist as well as a communitarian. He was a modernist, rationalist and moralist. His philosophy covers a wide range of ideas including justice, liberty, equality, democracy, minority rights, women’s rights, group representation, social exclusion and inclusion, majority–minority conflicts, cultural and linguistic diversity and identity and recognition which offer a non-western experience of the early part of twentieth century to the present-day literature on multiculturalism. But his ideas have paid little scholarly attention both in western and Indian scholarships. The existing scholarships on B. R. Ambedkar largely highlight on his socio-economic, cultural, religious, political and constitutional ideas. But his multicultural ideas are hardly explored in academic discourses. Th...
Identity politics emerged as a scholarly inquiry in social science and humanities mainly in the s... more Identity politics emerged as a scholarly inquiry in social science and humanities mainly in the second half of the twentieth century in the form of multiculturalism, women’s movement, Dalit and Adivasi movements, civil rights, lesbian and gay movements, separatist movements, and violent ethnic and nationalist movements in different parts of the world. The very claim of their movement emanates perhaps from the injustices done to them regarding their social position, vulnerability, marginalization, oppression by the so called cultural imperialism. However, it is in this context that the paper tries to analyze how identity politics developed in different scholarships particularly in social sciences and humanities and how different approaches define the process of identity formation. Along with this the paper examines identity politics in India in terms of caste, tribe, language, religion, region and ethnicity and explains how far and to what extent these identity markers pose a challen...
The state of Odisha has been shaped by a unique geography, different cultural patterns from neigh... more The state of Odisha has been shaped by a unique geography, different cultural patterns from neighboring states, and a predominant Jagannath culture along with a number of castes, tribes, religions, languages and regional disparity which shows the multicultural nature of the state. But the regional disparities in terms of economic and political development pose a grave challenge to the state politics in Odisha. Thus, multiculturalism in Odisha can be defined as the territorial division of the state into different sub-regions and in terms of regionalism and subregional identity. The paper attempts to assess Odisha as a multicultural state by highlighting its cultural diversity and tries to establish the idea that multiculturalism is manifested in subregionalism. Bringing out the major areas of sub-regional disparity that lead to secessionist movement and the response of state government to it, the paper concludes with some suggestive measures. INTRODUCTION The concept of multicultural...
Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political... more Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political system. As the various developmental programs are carried out, regional disparities are already becoming more marked and widespread engendering a sense of cumulative deprivations in the people of certain regions. This, coupled with increasing politicisation in the community, is sure to impart sharper focus to regionalism which would emerge more prominently as a factor of significance in Indian polity. Further, internal self-determination has remained the predominant form in which regionalism and sub-regionalism has sought to express itself. However, an attempt has been made in this paper to focus on the theoretical perspectives of regionalism and to find out how far and to what extent regionalism and sub-regionalism poses a challenge to the national politics in India asserting autonomy and self-determination and what are the basic factors influencing regionalism and subregionalism in th...
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, Feb 28, 2014
Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political... more Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political system. As the various developmental programs are carried out, regional disparities are already becoming more marked and widespread engendering a sense of cumulative deprivations in the people of certain regions. This, coupled with increasing politicisation in the community, is sure to impart sharper focus to regionalism which would emerge more prominently as a factor of significance in Indian polity. Further, internal self-determination has remained the predominant form in which regionalism and sub-regionalism has sought to express itself. However, an attempt has been made in this paper to focus on the theoretical perspectives of regionalism and to find out how far and to what extent regionalism and sub-regionalism poses a challenge to the national politics in India asserting autonomy and self-determination and what are the basic factors influencing regionalism and subregionalism in the sub-continent. The paper concludes with some recent issues of regionalism in different parts of the country.
Telengana stands on the threshold of achieving of its 60-year-old dream of statehood. But the out... more Telengana stands on the threshold of achieving of its 60-year-old dream of statehood. But the outpouring of rage among people in the other regions of Andhra Pradesh and the revival of the demands for new states across the country pose a severe challenge to the ruling Congress Party. The demand for separate state in various parts of the subcontinent mainly arises out of identity, region, language, culture, caste, class and economic underdevelopment. However, it is in this context that this paper makes an attempt to highlight on how movements for separate statehood started immediately after the declaration of Telengana to be 29 th state of India and more specifically the paper focuses on the agitation of the Koshal region to form a Koshal state in Odisha. The paper very briefly suggests the bare need of the Second States Reorganization Commission so as to tackle all these demands.
The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all ov... more The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all over the world keeping their life at stake. In every sphere of life, in country after country, human rights are being violated. Each violation of human rights, wherever it occurs is a great threat to the welfare and dignity of the human civilization. One can say that the status of democracy of a country can be judged by the status of human rights of minorities, particularly the religious minorities and weaker sections of society. But the reverse picture we can find in Indian society. Religious minorities in India particularly Christians and Muslims, suffer religious persecution daily, despite nominal protection guaranteed under Indian constitution. Belying any constitutional claim of religious freedom, both federal and state legislation included anti-conversion laws which were very detrimental to the religious minorities. An attempt has been made in this paper to highlight on the theoretical aspect of human rights violation of Christians in Kandhmal District in Odisha. The paper concludes analyzing the failure of state government as well as of public officials in protecting the vulnerable minority Christian community along with some remedial measures.
The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all ov... more The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all over the world keeping their life at stake. In every sphere of life, in country after country, human rights are being violated. Each violation of human rights, wherever it occurs is a great threat to the welfare and dignity of the human civilization. One can say that the status of democracy of a country can be judged by the status of human rights of minorities, particularly the religious minorities and weaker sections of society. But the reverse picture we can find in Indian society. Religious minorities in India particularly Christians and Muslims, suffer religious persecution daily, despite nominal protection guaranteed under Indian constitution. Belying any constitutional claim of religious freedom, both federal and state legislation included anti-conversion laws which were very detrimental to the religious minorities. An attempt has been made in this paper to highlight on the theoretical aspect of human rights violation of Christians in Kandhmal District in Odisha. The paper concludes analyzing the failure of state government as well as of public officials in protecting the vulnerable minority Christian community along with some remedial measures.
International Conference on Bioinformatics, 2014
Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retentio... more Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retention of their primordial identities, but also acceptance into the larger society. The growing regional disparities in India, arising out of language, religion, caste, tribe and socio-economic underdevelopment, have generated stress between the majority and minority groups. This has posed a new set of issues for multiculturalism, whose principal presumption is that conflicts emerge within societies primarily due to the minority groups feeling excluded in terms of benefitting less than the majority group from the overall process of socio-economic development. In the context of multiculturalism, the categories of majority and minority are related to issues of cultural discrimination and marginalization due to the kind of public endorsement each receives as expressed in national public culture. It is in this context that the paper tries to draw a link between multiculturalism and sub-regionalism and its resultant impact on the state politics of Odisha. An attempt has also been made in this paper to examine how far and to what extent sub-regionalism, despite the existence of many other multicultural elements, pose a grave challenge to the state politics of Odisha, along with some suggestive measures and policies.
IOSR journal of humanities and social science, 2013
Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developi... more Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developing countries like India. Not a single day passes without papers reporting on violation of human rights in India. The vulnerable sections like dalits, adivasis, women, children, minorities and other groups are discriminated without any fault of their own. In this paper, an attempt has been made to highlight on the theoretical analysis of the violation of human rights of Dalits particularly in Odisha. But how the human rights of such Dalit people are being violated despite extensive constitutional and legal protections against such violations? This is the chief objective of this paper. I.
Panchayati Raj Institutions have always been considered as a means to good governance and 73 rd C... more Panchayati Raj Institutions have always been considered as a means to good governance and 73 rd Constitutional Amendment was effected in the hope that it would lead to better governance and provide political space to the disadvantaged sections of the society like Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women. The present study was an effort to know the extent of political participation of women in functioning as well as in the electoral process of the panchayats and the problems faced by them. In this regard, sample consisted of 125 women respondents from 5 gram panchayats of Hindol Block in Dhenkanal District of Odisha. The study was conducted in March-April immediately after the general panchayat elections in February, 2012. The findings of the study revealed that political participation of women in the functioning as well as in the electoral process of the panchayats is not satisfactory. Some of the respondents even do not know the names of political parties and they casted their votes identifying the symbols of political parties. Most of the women have great apathy towards politics. The parochial culture, patriarchal society and low level of education are greatly responsible for their backwardness.
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, Feb 28, 2014
Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political... more Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political system. As the various developmental programs are carried out, regional disparities are already becoming more marked and widespread engendering a sense of cumulative deprivations in the people of certain regions. This, coupled with increasing politicisation in the community, is sure to impart sharper focus to regionalism which would emerge more prominently as a factor of significance in Indian polity. Further, internal self-determination has remained the predominant form in which regionalism and sub-regionalism has sought to express itself. However, an attempt has been made in this paper to focus on the theoretical perspectives of regionalism and to find out how far and to what extent regionalism and sub-regionalism poses a challenge to the national politics in India asserting autonomy and self-determination and what are the basic factors influencing regionalism and subregionalism in the sub-continent. The paper concludes with some recent issues of regionalism in different parts of the country.
Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retentio... more Conflicts may arise in multicultural societies due to minority groups demanding not only retention of their primordial identities, but also acceptance into the larger society. The growing regional disparities in India, arising out of language, religion, caste, tribe and socio-economic underdevelopment, have generated stress between the majority and minority groups. This has posed a new set of issues for multiculturalism, whose principal presumption is that conflicts emerge within societies primarily due to the minority groups feeling excluded in terms of benefitting less than the majority group from the overall process of socio-economic development. In the context of multiculturalism, the categories of majority and minority are related to issues of cultural discrimination and marginalization due to the kind of public endorsement each receives as expressed in national public culture. It is in this context that the paper tries to draw a link between multiculturalism and sub-regionalis...
International Journal of Scientific Research and Management (IJSRM), 2017
Political participation simply refers to the way through which the citizens of a country take par... more Political participation simply refers to the way through which the citizens of a country take part in the electoral as well as in policy making process. In other words, political participation is a way or a process through which the aspirations and needs of the people can be represented. Generally, the term “political participation” refers to those voluntary activities by which members of a society share in the selection of rulers and directly or indirectly in the formation of public policy. These activities include casting votes, seeking information, holding discussions, attending meetings, staging strikes and demonstrations, communicating with the legislators and the like. Women constitute more or less than half of the population of any country. Women have to recognize, collectively and critically, the forces that limit them and to work collectively and continuously to change the unequal power structure. The family, community and state should together create a situation wherein el...
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2013
Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developi... more Human rights violation has become a worldwide phenomenon and is increasing day by day in developing countries like India. Not a single day passes without papers reporting on violation of human rights in India. The vulnerable sections like dalits, adivasis, women, children, minorities and other groups are discriminated without any fault of their own. In this paper, an attempt has been made to highlight on the theoretical analysis of the violation of human rights of Dalits particularly in Odisha. But how the human rights of such Dalit people are being violated despite extensive constitutional and legal protections against such violations? This is the chief objective of this paper. I.
Contemporary Voice of Dalit
Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) was not only the messiah of the downtrodden people in India... more Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) was not only the messiah of the downtrodden people in India but was also the champion of minority rights, women’s rights, farmer’s and labourer’s rights. He was an individualist as well as a communitarian. He was a modernist, rationalist and moralist. His philosophy covers a wide range of ideas including justice, liberty, equality, democracy, minority rights, women’s rights, group representation, social exclusion and inclusion, majority–minority conflicts, cultural and linguistic diversity and identity and recognition which offer a non-western experience of the early part of twentieth century to the present-day literature on multiculturalism. But his ideas have paid little scholarly attention both in western and Indian scholarships. The existing scholarships on B. R. Ambedkar largely highlight on his socio-economic, cultural, religious, political and constitutional ideas. But his multicultural ideas are hardly explored in academic discourses. Th...
Identity politics emerged as a scholarly inquiry in social science and humanities mainly in the s... more Identity politics emerged as a scholarly inquiry in social science and humanities mainly in the second half of the twentieth century in the form of multiculturalism, women’s movement, Dalit and Adivasi movements, civil rights, lesbian and gay movements, separatist movements, and violent ethnic and nationalist movements in different parts of the world. The very claim of their movement emanates perhaps from the injustices done to them regarding their social position, vulnerability, marginalization, oppression by the so called cultural imperialism. However, it is in this context that the paper tries to analyze how identity politics developed in different scholarships particularly in social sciences and humanities and how different approaches define the process of identity formation. Along with this the paper examines identity politics in India in terms of caste, tribe, language, religion, region and ethnicity and explains how far and to what extent these identity markers pose a challen...
The state of Odisha has been shaped by a unique geography, different cultural patterns from neigh... more The state of Odisha has been shaped by a unique geography, different cultural patterns from neighboring states, and a predominant Jagannath culture along with a number of castes, tribes, religions, languages and regional disparity which shows the multicultural nature of the state. But the regional disparities in terms of economic and political development pose a grave challenge to the state politics in Odisha. Thus, multiculturalism in Odisha can be defined as the territorial division of the state into different sub-regions and in terms of regionalism and subregional identity. The paper attempts to assess Odisha as a multicultural state by highlighting its cultural diversity and tries to establish the idea that multiculturalism is manifested in subregionalism. Bringing out the major areas of sub-regional disparity that lead to secessionist movement and the response of state government to it, the paper concludes with some suggestive measures. INTRODUCTION The concept of multicultural...
Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political... more Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political system. As the various developmental programs are carried out, regional disparities are already becoming more marked and widespread engendering a sense of cumulative deprivations in the people of certain regions. This, coupled with increasing politicisation in the community, is sure to impart sharper focus to regionalism which would emerge more prominently as a factor of significance in Indian polity. Further, internal self-determination has remained the predominant form in which regionalism and sub-regionalism has sought to express itself. However, an attempt has been made in this paper to focus on the theoretical perspectives of regionalism and to find out how far and to what extent regionalism and sub-regionalism poses a challenge to the national politics in India asserting autonomy and self-determination and what are the basic factors influencing regionalism and subregionalism in th...
African Journal of Political Science and International Relations, Feb 28, 2014
Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political... more Regionalism and sub-regionalism are at present a fairly widespread phenomenon in Indian political system. As the various developmental programs are carried out, regional disparities are already becoming more marked and widespread engendering a sense of cumulative deprivations in the people of certain regions. This, coupled with increasing politicisation in the community, is sure to impart sharper focus to regionalism which would emerge more prominently as a factor of significance in Indian polity. Further, internal self-determination has remained the predominant form in which regionalism and sub-regionalism has sought to express itself. However, an attempt has been made in this paper to focus on the theoretical perspectives of regionalism and to find out how far and to what extent regionalism and sub-regionalism poses a challenge to the national politics in India asserting autonomy and self-determination and what are the basic factors influencing regionalism and subregionalism in the sub-continent. The paper concludes with some recent issues of regionalism in different parts of the country.
Telengana stands on the threshold of achieving of its 60-year-old dream of statehood. But the out... more Telengana stands on the threshold of achieving of its 60-year-old dream of statehood. But the outpouring of rage among people in the other regions of Andhra Pradesh and the revival of the demands for new states across the country pose a severe challenge to the ruling Congress Party. The demand for separate state in various parts of the subcontinent mainly arises out of identity, region, language, culture, caste, class and economic underdevelopment. However, it is in this context that this paper makes an attempt to highlight on how movements for separate statehood started immediately after the declaration of Telengana to be 29 th state of India and more specifically the paper focuses on the agitation of the Koshal region to form a Koshal state in Odisha. The paper very briefly suggests the bare need of the Second States Reorganization Commission so as to tackle all these demands.
The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all ov... more The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all over the world keeping their life at stake. In every sphere of life, in country after country, human rights are being violated. Each violation of human rights, wherever it occurs is a great threat to the welfare and dignity of the human civilization. One can say that the status of democracy of a country can be judged by the status of human rights of minorities, particularly the religious minorities and weaker sections of society. But the reverse picture we can find in Indian society. Religious minorities in India particularly Christians and Muslims, suffer religious persecution daily, despite nominal protection guaranteed under Indian constitution. Belying any constitutional claim of religious freedom, both federal and state legislation included anti-conversion laws which were very detrimental to the religious minorities. An attempt has been made in this paper to highlight on the theoretical aspect of human rights violation of Christians in Kandhmal District in Odisha. The paper concludes analyzing the failure of state government as well as of public officials in protecting the vulnerable minority Christian community along with some remedial measures.
The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all ov... more The issue of human rights violation of weaker sections of society is increasing day by day all over the world keeping their life at stake. In every sphere of life, in country after country, human rights are being violated. Each violation of human rights, wherever it occurs is a great threat to the welfare and dignity of the human civilization. One can say that the status of democracy of a country can be judged by the status of human rights of minorities, particularly the religious minorities and weaker sections of society. But the reverse picture we can find in Indian society. Religious minorities in India particularly Christians and Muslims, suffer religious persecution daily, despite nominal protection guaranteed under Indian constitution. Belying any constitutional claim of religious freedom, both federal and state legislation included anti-conversion laws which were very detrimental to the religious minorities. An attempt has been made in this paper to highlight on the theoretical aspect of human rights violation of Christians in Kandhmal District in Odisha. The paper concludes analyzing the failure of state government as well as of public officials in protecting the vulnerable minority Christian community along with some remedial measures.