P C Joshi
Biographic Data
| ID | 101290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P C Joshi |
| GIVEN NAMES | P C |
| FAMILY NAME | Joshi |
| SIGNATURE | JOSHI P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5857-0378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the correlations between social support, resilience, well-being, and mental health variables among youth in border areas of Jammu and Kashmir
Background: The border areas of Jammu and Kashmir have long been affected by conflict, potentially impacting the mental health of youth. Understanding the relationships between social health factors and mental health outcomes in these regions is crucial for developing effective interventions. Aim: This study aims to investigate the correlations between social health factors (social support, resilience, and well-being) and mental health outcomes (…
Suicide and suicide behavior
This study aimed to understand the perceptions and experiences of suicide attempters in order to suggest potential initiatives to reduce the suicide burden in rural India. The study is based on 46 in-depth interviews with suicide attempters and 4 focus group discussions with their family members. Interview content analysis revealed information related to four anticipated themes: the characteristics of a suicide attempt are complex; suicide attemp…
Perceived stress, anxiety and depression
Background: Conflicts adversely affect psychological well-being and are associated with mental disorders. Aim: The study aims to assess the levels of perceived stress, anxiety and depression and their association with demographic factors among the youth in the border villages of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among youth aged 18 to 25 years. The sample consisted of 300 individuals from the border villages …
Neue Indienkunde, New Indology
Marxism As Scientific Enterprise
H.K. Kumbnani (1935–2019)
Mental Health Problems in the Wake of Disaster
The present study attempts to analyze mental health problems in terms of anxiety, depression and probable post-traumatic stress disorder among women in Kosi flood affected areas of Bihar, India
On Gandhi and Sanitation
It was Gandhi who gave centrality to the debate on sanitation from the perspective of bio-power. The category of sanitation for him was not something to be used as a form of control but an instrument for transforming the structural caste-based hierarchy. Gandhian idea on sanitation resonates well with the anthropological notion of holism. He has visualised sanitation across the domains of soma, polis and psyche. Sanitation for Gandhi is not limit…
Illness, Health and Culture
Homocysteine Level and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
Human Rights, Wild Life and Environment Protection
The article presents a critique of the Cartesian-inspired practice of science and contrasts it with the traditional knowledge pertaining to the ecosystem which exists in the form of cultural practices rooted in the holistic framework integrating the world of animate and inanimate elements in the perspective of folk religious beliefs. The implications of the practice of ghandwa are explained in the light of a gene bank and human–wildlife conflict …
Cultures of Entitlement and Social Protection
Estimation of Waist and Hip Circumferences Using Body Mass Index in Delhi School Girls (6–11 Years)
Central obesity has been associated with the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in children. A total of 358 Delhi school girls aged 6–11 years were measured for height, weight, waist circumference and hip circumference. The study demonstrates a linear correlation between body mass index (BMI) and waist and hip circumference and suggests an indirect method of estimating waist and hip circumferences, whose high values may be used for the …
Women’s Perception of Reproductive Illness in Manipur, India
Perception of reproductive illness by the women themselves is important in understanding the women's reproductive health in a particular society. It also indicates the possibility of taking perception as a tool for measuring reproductive illness. Though women do not have a “germ theory” to explain their reproductive illness they have a sense of illness pathology. Reproductive illness perceived by women is related to physical symptoms and situatio…
The effect of the postdisaster context on the assessment of individual mental health scores
Many scholars question the immense variation in rates of mental health outcomes across disaster studies. This study explains this variation by putting forward 2 methodological problems that are inherent to the effect of a disaster context on mental health screening scores. The Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 was administered in a flood-affected group (n = 318) and a nonaffected group (n = 304) in Uttar Pradesh, India. The affected group showed much …
Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices among Oraons
Belief in witchcraft has been widely associated with tribal societies in India, Latin America, and Africa (Marwick, 1870; Evans-Pritchard, 1937; Douglas, 1970). In central India, it has been frequently reported to be a social problem under which women, especially old and infirm, are accused and killed as witches. It is generally believed that lack of education and awareness is chiefly responsible for prevalence of witchcraft but, beliefs and prac…
Relevance and Utility of Traditional Medical Systems (TMS) in the Context of a Himalayan Tribe
This paper unravels the intimate relationships between culture, tradition and health practices in a tribal society in the Central Himalayas. The Jaunsari tribe which resides in this region is well known for its polyandrous practices. The tra ditional medical system of this region represents a worldview which attempts to be at harmony with natural and supernatural forces and to strike a critical bal ance. Their magico—religious system of medicine …
Profession
Technological Innovations in the Garhwal Himalayas
The present paper discusses the nature of technological innovation and their implications in the Garhwal Himalayas with specific reference to HESCO, a non-governmental organization. Biofencing, management of common weeds and watermill invention in this area has helped the local inhabitants in solving many of their problems. The approach followed by HESCO includes building on existing structures, use of traditional knowledge, Innovations through o…
Bibliography on Ageing in India
No Aging in India
A Thwarted Cultural Renaissance
Institutional Aspects of Agricultural Development
"In Defence of India's "Marxist Establishment
Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology and its relevance To-Day
Cultures of Entitlement and Social Protection
Land reform and agrarian change in India and Pakistan since 1947
Analysing the actual processes and patterns of agrarian change following land reforms in India and Pakistan the author shows how radical land reform ideology without a radical land-reform programme has dual consequences - beneficial for the emerging dynamic landlord or intermediate classes and agonising and unsettling for the rural poor. The latter are deprived of the elements of paternalism and security existing even within the old exploitative …
Fieldwork experience
Fieldwork is currently regarded as basic to the anthropologist's method of studying rural communities. Though I studied social anthropology as a student, my interest in fieldwork in U.P. villages in the early 1950s came from different sources -from the tradition of fieldwork-based rural studies initiated by R.K. Mukerjee in my university and from my contact with the writings of Mao Tse-Tung in the course of my brief involvement in revolutionary p…
Land reform and Agrarian change in India and Pakistan since 1947
Analysing the class character of land reform in India and Pakistan the author makes a distinction between ideology and programme. Judged by its ideology, land reform in India is sharply anti-landlord and pro-peasant and is thus a mobiliser of peasant support for the ruling elite. The programme of land reform, however, serves primarily the interests of an emerging intermediate class of under-proprietors and big peasants. This intermediate class ma…
Reflections on Social Science Research in India
Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology and its relevance To-Day
Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices among Oraons
Belief in witchcraft has been widely associated with tribal societies in India, Latin America, and Africa (Marwick, 1870; Evans-Pritchard, 1937; Douglas, 1970). In central India, it has been frequently reported to be a social problem under which women, especially old and infirm, are accused and killed as witches. It is generally believed that lack of education and awareness is chiefly responsible for prevalence of witchcraft but, beliefs and prac…
Reflections on Development
The remembered village
The Decline of Indigenous Handicrafts in Uttar Pradesh
India
Studies in Asian Social Development. No I
Agrarian Structure and the Rural Poor
Land reform and agrarian change in India and Pakistan since 1947
Analysing the actual processes and patterns of agrarian change following land reforms in India and Pakistan the author shows how radical land reform ideology without a radical land-reform programme has dual consequences - beneficial for the emerging dynamic landlord or intermediate classes and agonising and unsettling for the rural poor. The latter are deprived of the elements of paternalism and security existing even within the old exploitative …
Land reform and Agrarian change in India and Pakistan since 1947
Analysing the class character of land reform in India and Pakistan the author makes a distinction between ideology and programme. Judged by its ideology, land reform in India is sharply anti-landlord and pro-peasant and is thus a mobiliser of peasant support for the ruling elite. The programme of land reform, however, serves primarily the interests of an emerging intermediate class of under-proprietors and big peasants. This intermediate class ma…
Reflections on Social Science Research in India
Twelfth All-India Sociological Conference
Ideology in Agrarian Research
The remembered village
Reflections on Development
Reflections on Economic Development and Social Change--Essays in Honor of Professor V. K. R. V. Rao
Fieldwork experience
Fieldwork is currently regarded as basic to the anthropologist's method of studying rural communities. Though I studied social anthropology as a student, my interest in fieldwork in U.P. villages in the early 1950s came from different sources -from the tradition of fieldwork-based rural studies initiated by R.K. Mukerjee in my university and from my contact with the writings of Mao Tse-Tung in the course of my brief involvement in revolutionary p…
Reflections on Economic Development and Social Change
Lucknow School of Economics and Sociology and its relevance To-Day
"In Defence of India's "Marxist Establishment
Institutional Aspects of Agricultural Development
A Thwarted Cultural Renaissance
Technological Innovations in the Garhwal Himalayas
The present paper discusses the nature of technological innovation and their implications in the Garhwal Himalayas with specific reference to HESCO, a non-governmental organization. Biofencing, management of common weeds and watermill invention in this area has helped the local inhabitants in solving many of their problems. The approach followed by HESCO includes building on existing structures, use of traditional knowledge, Innovations through o…
Bibliography on Ageing in India
No Aging in India
Relevance and Utility of Traditional Medical Systems (TMS) in the Context of a Himalayan Tribe
This paper unravels the intimate relationships between culture, tradition and health practices in a tribal society in the Central Himalayas. The Jaunsari tribe which resides in this region is well known for its polyandrous practices. The tra ditional medical system of this region represents a worldview which attempts to be at harmony with natural and supernatural forces and to strike a critical bal ance. Their magico—religious system of medicine …
Profession
Witchcraft Beliefs and Practices among Oraons
Belief in witchcraft has been widely associated with tribal societies in India, Latin America, and Africa (Marwick, 1870; Evans-Pritchard, 1937; Douglas, 1970). In central India, it has been frequently reported to be a social problem under which women, especially old and infirm, are accused and killed as witches. It is generally believed that lack of education and awareness is chiefly responsible for prevalence of witchcraft but, beliefs and prac…
Women’s Perception of Reproductive Illness in Manipur, India
Perception of reproductive illness by the women themselves is important in understanding the women's reproductive health in a particular society. It also indicates the possibility of taking perception as a tool for measuring reproductive illness. Though women do not have a “germ theory” to explain their reproductive illness they have a sense of illness pathology. Reproductive illness perceived by women is related to physical symptoms and situatio…
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