... wears a Garo, a sari with Chinese embroidery. Garos became identified with the Parsi community as they ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Sarah F. Harbison, T. M. Kibriaul Khaleque, Warren C. Robinson,
... 1000-1007 Female Autonomy and Fertility Among the Garo of North Central Bangladesh Sarah F. Harbison, Sarah ... R. 1963 Rengsangari: Family and Kinship in a Garo Village. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Cain, M., ... A Study of Women's Position Among the Garo of Assam. Man in India 45(1): 27–35. Kar, Parimal Chandra 1982 Garos in Tradition. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications. Khaleque, T. M. K. 1981 Social Change Among the Garo: A Study of 9 Plains Village in Bangladesh. ... and Changes in Property Relations Among the Bangladesh Garo. Journal of Social Studies 20: 89–116. Khaleque, ...
Tópico(s): Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
1989 - Wiley | American Anthropologist
... basis of a case study of the lowland Garos of Bangladesh, the paper argues that attempts by ... and Bangladesh to 'other', and even 'exclude', the Garos have significantly impacted on Garo self-perception and organisation, resulting in the formation ... century episodes in the lives of the lowland Garos. The first is the 1936 British administrative reorganisation ... the emergence of a notion of a separate Garo homeland in Bengal. The second is the mass exodus of Garos across the international border into the Indian hills ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2007 - Taylor & Francis | South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies
Amir Mortazavi, Shapour Azarm, Steven A. Gabriel,
... first method is called gradient-assisted robust optimization (GARO). In GARO, a robust optimization problem is first converted to ... The second method is a faster version of GARO called quasi-concave gradient-assisted robust optimization (QC-GARO). QC-GARO is for problems with quasi-concave objective and constraint functions. The difference between GARO and QC-GARO is in the way that they check the approximation accuracy. Both GARO and QC-GARO methods are applied to a set of six ... was found that, compared to the methods considered, GARO could solve all test problems but with a ...
Tópico(s): Topology Optimization in Engineering
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Engineering Optimization
... of collectivisation. 2 Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Ryazanskoi Oblasti (hereafter GARO), f. 4, op. 3, d. 13, ll. 714– ... Bashkir ASSR, Tatar ASSR and the Crimea. 4 GARO, f. 2, op. 1, d. 68, l. 164; ... Also noted by Fitzpatrick (Citation1994, p. 69). 5 GARO, f. 5, op. 2, d. 5, l. 254. See also Viola (Citation1996, esp. ch. 2). 6 GARO, f. 2, op. 1, d. 236, ll. 238, 568. 7 GARO, f. 5, op. 2, d. 5, ll. 305, ... See Lambert (Citation2008) and Baldaev (Citation2009–2011). 8 GARO, f. 2, op. 1, d. 216, l. 30. 9 GARO, f. 5, op. 2, d. 5, l. 383. ...
Tópico(s): Communism, Protests, Social Movements
2013 - Routledge | Europe Asia Studies
Krushnamegh Kunte, Sanjay Sondhi, Bensen M. Sangma, Rohan Lovalekar, Kedar Tokekar, Gaurav Agavekar,
The Garo Hills of Meghalaya, northeastern India, form the westernmost boundary of the globally recognized Indo-Myanmar Biodiversity Hotspot. The butterfly fauna of the Garo Hills is expected to be diverse, but it ... Reserve Forest and Siju Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Garo Hills, and Nokrek National Park in Western Garo Hills during four visits amounting to 49 days ... Here we report 298 butterfly species for the Garo Hills, eight of which are legally protected under ... many species remain to be discovered in the Garo Hills, and we expect the total species richness ...
Tópico(s): Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
2012 - Wildlife Information Liaison Development Society | Journal of Threatened Taxa
Md. Habibur Rahman, Most. Jannatul Fardusi,
... utilization and farming system was explored by the Garo tribe community in the North-East region of ... dependence on homestead forest. Results show that the Garo are totally dependent on the natural resources and ... energy, timber and health care on plants products. Garo tribe community in Bangladesh followed agrosilvipastoral system in ... timber species was found and recorded that the Garo used in their daily life. Moreover, Garo used 23 medicinal plants species and have vast ... herbal medicine in daily health care practices. The Garo women do mostly the household activities, managing homestead ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2012 - | Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
Mohammad Amirul Islam, Rakibul M. Islam, Banya Banowary,
... and its influence on contraceptive use among the Garo, a matrilineal community, of Bangladesh.Methods In this study, 223 currently married Garo women were interviewed, selected purposively from two districts of Bangladesh, where most of the Garo people live. A binary logistic regression model was ... determinants of current use of contraceptives among the Garo community.Results About 80% of the Garo women were currently using contraceptive methods, which was ... determinant of contraceptive use.Conclusions Even though the Garo apply contraception more than the Bangladeshi community in ...
Tópico(s): Family Dynamics and Relationships
2009 - Taylor & Francis | The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
Mohammed Rahmatullah, M. N. K. Azam, Mizanur Rahman, Syeda Seraj, M. J. Mahal, S. M. Mou, Dilruba Nasrin, Zubaida Khatun, Farhana Islam, M. H. Chowdhury,
... speaking population, while the other belonged to the Garo tribe and administered to the medicinal needs of the Garo village community. It was observed that a total ... which 37 plants were prescribed by the non-Garo practitioner and 16 plants by the Garo practitioner. The various plant species belonged to 37 ...
Tópico(s): Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies
2011 - | AMERICAN-EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Ellen Bal, Timour Claquin Chambugong,
The people known as Garos, from the Garo Hills and adjacent (lowland) areas in India and Bangladesh, have never constituted one unified and self-defined in-group, although British colonial rule indeed produced a feeble notion of an imagined Garo community. Hence, the international border of 1947 formalized certain distinctions between hill Garos and lowlanders that had existed much longer, and ... however, we do see different attempts by the Garos to establish linkages across the border. This paper ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Borderlands Studies
Mohnish Kapoor Kiranmay Sarma,
... Slash-And-Burn Agriculture on Forest Ecosystem in Garo Hills Landscape of Meghalaya, North-East India Slash- ... threatens the survival of wild flora and fauna. Garo Hills has the richest reservoir of plant diversity ... There are numerous sacred forest patches in the Garo Hills. The prominent pressure to native forest biodiversity in the Garo Hills is the increasing anthropogenic conversion of mature ... a deep impact on the life sustainability in Garo Hills and has reduced the quality of soil ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
2013 - OMICS Publishing Group | Journal of Biodiversity Management & Forestry
Sonia Tamanna, Md. Masud Rana, Aysha Ferdoushi, Shah Adil Ishtiyaq Ahmad, M Obaidur Rahman, Atiqur Rahman,
Background: Garo is one of the largest indigenous communities of Bangladesh. Adolescence is a golden period of time for ... adequate attention in Bangladesh. Tribal people like the Garo are even more unaware about the importance of ... growth as well as nutritional status among adolescent Garo children in Sherpur district on the basis of ... sectional descriptive study was conducted among 384 adolescent Garo children (boys and girls) aged 10- 18 years. ... undertaken for the overall nutritional development of the Garo population with special focus on the adolescents. Bangladesh ...
Tópico(s): Global Health and Epidemiology
2013 - Ibn Sina Trust | Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science
Nasreen Jahan, A. I. Khan, Mohammad Nazmul Hasan, Mohammad Uzzal Hossain, Utpol Das, Samia Sultana, Mohammed Rahmatullah,
The Garo tribal community is one of the largest indigenous communities and resides primarily in the northcentral districts of ... traditional medicinal practitioners of fifteen clans of the Garo community residing in Madhupur sub-district of Tangail ... that view point, the medicinal plants of the Garos can play a major role in stimulating scientific ... efficacious drugs. Among the diseases treated by the Garo tribal practitioners are diabetes, insanity, and malaria. The ... developed from the plant species used by the Garos.
Tópico(s): Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants
2013 - | AMERICAN-EURASIAN JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
... documents the use of medicinal plants by the Garo tribe of Betagaon-Bamunpara (BB) and Nigamghola (NG) ... between themselves as well as with the other Garo communities of the region and in Bangladesh have ... study appear to be new records for the Garos. Herb was the dominant life form used and ... might have resulted from the interactions between the Garo and the Ayurveda practitioners of this area that ... the rich knowledge in traditional medicine that the Garos of these two villages possess.
Tópico(s): Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants
2018 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Herbal Medicine
... status of recently surveyed populations from the East Garo Hills and West Garo Hills districts and a single specimen collected from ... the recently described C. urbanus, and that the Garo Hills populations represent a new species of Cyrtodactylus ... an endemic new species of lizards from the Garo Hills further highlights the region as an overlooked ... by taxonomists to review the herpetofauna of the Garo Hills.
Tópico(s): Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
2021 - British Herpetological Society | Herpetological Journal
Silba R. Marak, Dwijen Sharma, Hemen Sarma,
Abstract The Garo community living in Meghalaya has always relied on fermented rice liquor known as Chubitchi as a main beverage ... their everyday life. Chubitchi is celebrated by the Garos during feasts and ceremonies. The indigenous populations of ... a popular traditional alcoholic beverage prepared by the Garo tribe of Meghalaya, India. It is consumed during ... in the social and cultural life of the Garos . This paper deals with the traditional preparation of Chubitchi by the Garo tribe, which is a vital part of their ...
Tópico(s): Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
2021 - BioMed Central | Journal of Ethnic Foods
Vas Dev, Barlind M Sangma, Aditya Prasad Dash,
Malaria is endemic in Garo hills of Meghalaya, and death cases are reported annually. Plasmodium falciparum is the major parasite, and is solely responsible for each malaria-attributable death case. Garo hills are categorized high-risk for drug-resistant ... transmission reduction. The epidemiological data of the West Garo hills have been reviewed retrospectively for 2001-2009 ... status to DDT. Investigations revealed that the West Garo hill district is co-endemic for Plasmodium falciparum ...
Tópico(s): Viral Infections and Vectors
2010 - BioMed Central | Malaria Journal
Pushpalatha Nidadavolu, Wail Amor, Phat Tran, Janet Dertien, Jane A. Colmer‐Hamood, Abdul N. Hamood,
... sterile cellulose discs, exposed to formulated garlic ointment (GarO) or ointment base, and incubated to allow biofilm development. Biofilms were quantified and visualized microscopically. GarO prevented biofilm development by Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, ... of the bioburden within Enterococcus faecalis biofilms. Additionally, GarO disrupted partially developed biofilms produced by S. aureus, ... epidermidis and A. baumannii. The antistaphylococcal activity of GarO was stable for over 3 months at room ...
Tópico(s): Nanoparticles: synthesis and applications
2012 - Microbiology Society | Journal of Medical Microbiology
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Md. Nur Kabidul Azam, Zehedina Khatun, Syeda Seraj, Farhana Islam, Aura Rahman, S Jahan, SH Abdul Aziz,
... this disease through administration of medicinal plants. The Garos are an indigenous community of Bangladesh, who still ... a survey among the Marakh sect of the Garos residing in Mymensingh district of Bangladesh to find ... tribal practitioners of the Marakh sect of the Garos use twelve medicinal plants for treatment of diabetes. ... that almost all the plants used by the Garo tribal practitioners have reported antidiabetic and/or antioxidant ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical Acid Research Studies
2012 - African Traditional Herbal Medicine Supporters Initiative (ATHMSI) | African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines
Jenny Munro, Barbara Parker, Lynn McIntyre,
... insecurity among a small group of ultrapoor Indigenous Garo women in Bangladesh. We demonstrate how the politics ... the experiences of food insecurity among ultrapoor rural Garo women. We identify how indigeneity intersects with cultural ... of food insecurity and highlight the unique challenges Garo women face in relation to accessing culturally appropriate and sufficient food. Ultrapoor Garo women are in need of poverty alleviation attention ...
Tópico(s): Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development
2014 - | International Journal of Indigenous Health
Md. Arif Khan, Md. Khirul Islam, Md Afjalus Siraj, Sanjib Saha, Apurba Kumar Barman, Khalijah Awang, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, Jamil A. Shilpi, Rownak Jahan, Erena Islam, Mohammed Rahmatullah,
Garo Hills represents one of earliest human habitation in Bangladesh preserving its ancient cultures due to the ... India. Durgapur is rich in ethnic diversity with Garo and Hajong as the major ethnic groups along ... the mainstream population. Thus the ethnomedicinal practice in Garo Hills is considered rich as it encompasses three ... plant usage among the various communities of the Garo Hills. The ethnomedicinal data was collected through open ...
Tópico(s): Pharmacological Effects of Medicinal Plants
2015 - BioMed Central | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Rabiul Karim, Tanzima Habib, Sadequl Arefin, Hafijur Rahman, Suchona Rahman, Katarina Swahnberg,
... acceptance of wife abuse among matrilineal ethnic minority Garo, patrilineal ethnic minority Santal, and mainstream patriarchal Bengali ... 929 women and men randomly selected from 24 Garo, Santal, and Bengali villages. Multivariate Poisson regression was ... abuse. Of the sample, 33.2% were from Garo, 33.2% from Santal, and 33.6% from ... abuse were respectively 16% and 56% lower among Garo as well as 14% and 33% lower among ...
Tópico(s): Child Abuse and Trauma
2020 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Zakia Akhter, Jahan Ara Begum, Mst Laila Anjuman Banu, Md Mahbubul Alam, Samira Hossain, Nahid Farhana Amin, Md Mesbah Uddin, Quazi Samsunnahar Yasmin,
... between stature and any parts in human body. Garos, our study subject living in Bangladesh are usually ... establish ethnic specific anthropometric data for the Bangladeshi Garo tribal populations and also to determine whether there ... the subjects: A total number of one hundred Garo female subjects were included from Dhaka city and ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change and Health Impacts
1970 - | Bangladesh Journal of Anatomy
Rakibul M. Islam, Mohammad Amirul Islam, Banya Banowary,
... mass media family planning (FP) messages among the Garo, an indigenous community in Bangladesh. A sample of 223 currently married Garo women were selected purposively from two districts where most of the Garo population live. The analysis demonstrated that television was ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
2008 - Cambridge University Press | Journal of Biosocial Science
Debjani Choudhury, A. K. Pradhan, Syed Zakaulla, K. Umamaheswar,
... isolated pluton within the migmatitic terrain of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya. The pluton is exposed over ... aspects indicate the post-tectonic nature of West Garo pluton more like as A-type granite formed ... character point to A-type nature of West Garo granite significantly different from other granites of Meghalaya ...
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
2012 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of the Geological Society of India
Kibriaul Khaleque, Michael A. Gold,
... an indigenous agroforestry system currently practiced by the Garo community of Bangladesh is described. Changes in land ... market economics have been responsible for changes in Garo land use systems. The Garo agroforestry system incorporates tree crops for shade, weed ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
1993 - Taylor & Francis | Society & Natural Resources
... Based Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment in the Garo Hills, North-East India The framework is part ... climate vulnerability and capacity assessment (CBVCA) in the Garo hills has implications for livelihoods, food systems, ecological ... perceive culture. This study characterizes CBVCA in the Garo hills of northeast India to climate change in ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
2013 - OMICS Publishing Group | Journal of Biodiversity Management & Forestry
D. Pandey, Kalkame Ch. Momin, Shantanu Kumar Dubey, P. Adhiguru,
... 97 households in four villages of the West Garo Hills in the state of Meghalaya in north- ... the corresponding food diversity (as maintained by the Garo indigenous communities) were examined. We used a mixed- ... part of the system. The traditional foods of Garo communities, that are drawn almost entirely from locally ...
Tópico(s): Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
2022 - Springer Science+Business Media | Food Security
Biswajit Lahiri, T. S. Anurag, B. R. Marak, Aiarson Kubi Sangma, Sierra M. Sangma,
... north-eastern hilly region of India, particularly the Garo Hill farmers are very much in need of ... develop a mobile-based fishery advisory prototype in Garo Hills of Meghalaya as an alternate method of ... to deliver right information at right time for Garo tribal farmers. Two thousand farmers from 65 villages (1000 farmers each from West Garo Hills District and South West Garo Hills District) were registered in Interactive Voice Response ...
Tópico(s): Fisheries and Aquaculture Studies
2020 - Indian Council of Agricultural Research | Indian Journal of Fisheries
T. Longvah, Prasad Vooradi Sathya Sai, R. Ananthan, Glen C Kharkhonger, Carl Rangad,
... are valuable sources of diverse phenotypic traits. The Garos inhabiting Garo Hill Districts in Meghalaya conserve and grow numerous ... variability of nutrients that exist within these 32 Garo rice landraces can be used for nutrient improvement ...
Tópico(s): Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
2020 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Food Composition and Analysis