... turn, leads us to enquire how women politicians in general and these four in particular, have negotiated with the existing power structures in a male-dominated, patriarchal political system. This is inextricably linked to questions of masculine and feminine identities, specifically the mother and sister rhetoric. For instance ... . Five years later, she pulled off a landslide victory. The Singur movement does not represent the beginning of a new era in West Bengal politics. Rather, it was the culmination of structural contradictions that had been in place for ages which finally gave in. W...

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... optimistic for much of tiger habitat. In addition to this estimate of home range size, our available information suggests that, as has been noted by Russian biologists here, and for Bengal tigers in Nepal, adult female tigers are territorial. Therefore, we can expect that every 450 km2 of tiger habitat can maintain only one adult breeding female tiger. These two pieces ... rule is complicated by the fact that these estimates are actually based on "effective population size", which depends upon, among other things, the relative number of young produced by each male and female that surviv...

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... south by the Arabian Sea, and on the west by Iran. Pakistan became an independent state in 1947, and until 1971, it included the province of East Pakistan (previously East Bengal), which, after its secession from Pakistan, assumed the name Bangladesh. The capital of Pakistan is Islamabad, but Karachi is the largest city. Pakistan is situated at the western end of ... . Social organization revolves around kinship rather than caste. Beradari, also known as patrilineage, is the most important social institution. Patrilineage is a lineage whos members brace their genealogies through specifie...

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