Nature,property and polity in colonial Bombay

This article contends that ecological issues are vital to understanding the long‐term dynamic of the agricultural economy and have to be considered along with class/property structures and the state. It examines the underpinnings, potentialities and limitations of the colonial discourse of agriculture as a field for improvement and suggests that the neglect of this literature by latter‐day economic historians has led to either Promethean or Malthusian discourses of limited explanatory value. This article notes that combining the insights of this earlier discourse with recent attempts at theorising the links between nature, property and polity constitutes the most promising line of development.     

Characteristic Features of Hanging: A Study in Rural District of Central India

The ligature mark is the most relevant feature of hanging. This study was undertaken with a view to determine the characteristic features of hanging and its association with ligature material or mode of suspension. Of a total medicolegal deaths reported at an Apex Medical Centre, hanging was noted in 4.1% cases, all suicidal with mortality rate of 1.5 per 100,000 population per year. The hanging was complete in 67.7% with nylon rope as the commonest type of ligature material used for ligation. The hanging mark was usually single, situated above thyroid cartilage, incomplete, prominent, and directed toward nape of neck. The mark of dribbling of saliva was seen in 11.8% cases. Facial congestion, petechial hemorrhage, and cyanosis were significantly seen in partial hanging. Though occasionally reported, the argent line was noted in 78.7% hanging deaths with neck muscle hemorrhage in 23.6% cases. Fracture of neck structure was predominant in complete hanging.     

Can Personality Traits Predict Depression during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Social Justice Research - The emotional costs of the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns among clinicians and scholars. The goal of the current study was to test whether or not neuroticism,...     

Atherosclerosis: a medicolegal tool in exhumed decomposed bodies

An exhumed body of 40-year-old Hindu man was brought for repostmortem after 10 days of death with history of allegation of assault by mob. The body was in the advanced stage of decomposition with adipocere formation over chest, thigh, and arms. In the present case, atherosclerosis was present in the coronaries and aorta sufficiently enough to deduce the cause of death and to substantiate the first autopsy findings even in highly decomposed exhumed body.     

提高电子政务接纳程度的策略

电子政务就是尽可能地使所有的政府活动电子化。电子政务的关键在于对以网络为基础的电子化政府系统和通讯技术的基础设施进行投资。同时,公民的教育水平越高,建设电子政务也就越具有优势。然而,令人惊讶的是,一些ICT(信息和通信技术)基础设施水平较低的国家反而比那些水平较高的国家拥有更高的在线交易能力。本文对电子政务供给和需求两方面的障碍进行检验,试图找到克服这些障碍的策略,并提出:若要有效提高电子政务的采纳程度,除了对ICT进行投资之外,在政府内外增进人们的“技术准备能力”和更为简易地获取ICT的使用途径也同样重要。