Subrata Sankar Bagchi
Biographic Data
| ID | 789319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Subrata Sankar Bagchi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Subrata Sankar |
| FAMILY NAME | Bagchi |
| SIGNATURE | BAGCHI S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calcutta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9564-3599 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disenfranchised Heritage of West Bengal
This paper explores the importance and implications of a multivocal and ethnographic approach to archaeological praxis and interpretation of artefacts. Drawing from post-colonial and archaeological disenfranchisement perspectives, an attempt has been made to review the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and other agencies’ strategies and their resultant hegemonic dominance over archaeological sites and narratives, thus marginalizing local and i…
Association of Socio-Demographic and Socio-Economic Status with Substance use among the Scheduled Caste Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Workers in Midnapur, West Bengal
This study delves into the habit of substance use among the municipal solid waste (MSW) workers belonging to the Scheduled Caste community in a neighbourhood of the Midnapur town of West Bengal. It seeks to assess the association of substance use with the socio-demographic and socio-economic status of the studied people from the perspective of the social stress theory proposed by Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend (1974, Stressful life events: Their natur…
Assessment of nutritional status, energy intake and energy requirement
Malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, is a major problem for most low and middle-income countries. For several years, health professionals have recommended improving daily diets and continuous nutritional education as the solution to malnutrition and maximising a healthy life. More specifically, malnutrition is often reversible to a certain extent if the balance between energy intake (EI) and energy requirement (ER) can be measured accuratel…
Violence during lockdowns in India
Dietary Intake and Nutritional Status of the adult Kheria Sabar males of West Bengal, India
Kheria Sabars are an indigenous community living in the rural areas of Purulia, West Bengal, India. This work aims to study dietary intake and its relation to nutritional status among adult Kheria Sabar males aged 18-60. The study entails the recording of anthropometric variables like height (cm) and weight (kg) as per the standard protocol and calculating body mass index (BMI). Dietary intake was recorded on the basis of the 24-h dietary recall …
The association between somatotype and nutritional status
Somatotype is the parameter used to determine the body composition, which is influenced by several factors and nutrition is the crucial one. This study aimed to determine somatotype and nutritional status as well as investigate the somatotype variations in relation to the age and nutritional status among the adult males of Sabar community living in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. The present cross-sectional study included 334 Sabar males …
Age-related Variations in Anthropometry, Body Composition and Nutritional Status among the Adult Kheria Sabar Males of Purulia, West Bengal, India
Undernutrition and ageing may have a significant effect on body composition. A cross sectional study was conducted to explore the age-related variations among different anthropometric and body composition characteristics amongst the adult Kheria Sabar males of Purulia district of West Bengal. From fifteen villages, 304 apparently healthy adult males aged 18–60 years were selected at random. Subjects were categorized into four age groups and stand…
Banaras in a Narrative of Nostalgia and Kitsch
An ethnographic study on the Indian city of Banaras, one of the "oldest continuously inhabited cities" of the world, helps us experiencing it as a multivocal, multilayered network of heritage, pilgrimage, and tourism that is either continually engaged with the revivalist construction of space or deconstructed by the postcolonial discourse envisaging a tangible and dynamic order of space. The article intends to make an analytical inquiry into pilg…
Contextualizing Identity and Exclusion and the Unheard Voices of Kolkata’s Migrant Hand-rickshaw-pullers
The intrigues of global capital are certain to drive out thousands of atrociously marginalized Dalit and Muslim hand-rickshaw-pullers from their livelihood in Kolkata (previously Calcutta) on the ground that not only are hand-rickshaws outdated, but their plying on the city-roads is an indication of retrogression as well as antithetical to development while global capital needs fast-paced smart-cities, supportive to unhindered capitalist developm…
Human rights and the Third World
Child Labor in Kolkata
Assessment of nutritional status, energy intake and energy requirement
Malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, is a major problem for most low and middle-income countries. For several years, health professionals have recommended improving daily diets and continuous nutritional education as the solution to malnutrition and maximising a healthy life. More specifically, malnutrition is often reversible to a certain extent if the balance between energy intake (EI) and energy requirement (ER) can be measured accuratel…
The association between somatotype and nutritional status
Somatotype is the parameter used to determine the body composition, which is influenced by several factors and nutrition is the crucial one. This study aimed to determine somatotype and nutritional status as well as investigate the somatotype variations in relation to the age and nutritional status among the adult males of Sabar community living in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. The present cross-sectional study included 334 Sabar males …
Child Labor in Kolkata
Child Labor in Kolkata
Human rights and the Third World
Contextualizing Identity and Exclusion and the Unheard Voices of Kolkata’s Migrant Hand-rickshaw-pullers
The intrigues of global capital are certain to drive out thousands of atrociously marginalized Dalit and Muslim hand-rickshaw-pullers from their livelihood in Kolkata (previously Calcutta) on the ground that not only are hand-rickshaws outdated, but their plying on the city-roads is an indication of retrogression as well as antithetical to development while global capital needs fast-paced smart-cities, supportive to unhindered capitalist developm…
Age-related Variations in Anthropometry, Body Composition and Nutritional Status among the Adult Kheria Sabar Males of Purulia, West Bengal, India
Undernutrition and ageing may have a significant effect on body composition. A cross sectional study was conducted to explore the age-related variations among different anthropometric and body composition characteristics amongst the adult Kheria Sabar males of Purulia district of West Bengal. From fifteen villages, 304 apparently healthy adult males aged 18–60 years were selected at random. Subjects were categorized into four age groups and stand…
Banaras in a Narrative of Nostalgia and Kitsch
An ethnographic study on the Indian city of Banaras, one of the "oldest continuously inhabited cities" of the world, helps us experiencing it as a multivocal, multilayered network of heritage, pilgrimage, and tourism that is either continually engaged with the revivalist construction of space or deconstructed by the postcolonial discourse envisaging a tangible and dynamic order of space. The article intends to make an analytical inquiry into pilg…
The association between somatotype and nutritional status
Somatotype is the parameter used to determine the body composition, which is influenced by several factors and nutrition is the crucial one. This study aimed to determine somatotype and nutritional status as well as investigate the somatotype variations in relation to the age and nutritional status among the adult males of Sabar community living in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. The present cross-sectional study included 334 Sabar males …
Dietary Intake and Nutritional Status of the adult Kheria Sabar males of West Bengal, India
Kheria Sabars are an indigenous community living in the rural areas of Purulia, West Bengal, India. This work aims to study dietary intake and its relation to nutritional status among adult Kheria Sabar males aged 18-60. The study entails the recording of anthropometric variables like height (cm) and weight (kg) as per the standard protocol and calculating body mass index (BMI). Dietary intake was recorded on the basis of the 24-h dietary recall …
Violence during lockdowns in India
Assessment of nutritional status, energy intake and energy requirement
Malnutrition, particularly undernutrition, is a major problem for most low and middle-income countries. For several years, health professionals have recommended improving daily diets and continuous nutritional education as the solution to malnutrition and maximising a healthy life. More specifically, malnutrition is often reversible to a certain extent if the balance between energy intake (EI) and energy requirement (ER) can be measured accuratel…
Association of Socio-Demographic and Socio-Economic Status with Substance use among the Scheduled Caste Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Workers in Midnapur, West Bengal
This study delves into the habit of substance use among the municipal solid waste (MSW) workers belonging to the Scheduled Caste community in a neighbourhood of the Midnapur town of West Bengal. It seeks to assess the association of substance use with the socio-demographic and socio-economic status of the studied people from the perspective of the social stress theory proposed by Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend (1974, Stressful life events: Their natur…
Disenfranchised Heritage of West Bengal
This paper explores the importance and implications of a multivocal and ethnographic approach to archaeological praxis and interpretation of artefacts. Drawing from post-colonial and archaeological disenfranchisement perspectives, an attempt has been made to review the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and other agencies’ strategies and their resultant hegemonic dominance over archaeological sites and narratives, thus marginalizing local and i…
Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Socioeconomics (5 works) · West bengal (5 works) · Anthropometry (4 works) · Body mass index (4 works) · Malnutrition (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works)