University Library, University of North Bengal
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This IR is an Institutional Repository of the University Library, University of North Bengal (NBU) that collects, organizes, preserves and provides access to, and promotes the dissemination of the intellectual (scholarly) output of the NBU (West Bengal, India) faculty, scholars, students, and others associated with the Institute. The IR serves as a platform for faculty, researchers, and students of the Institute to share their research work with the wider community. The NBU-IR accepts documents viz., university publication, Academic Resources, Administrative and Academic Documents, Rare Documents and any other resources provided as part of the academic requirements at the Institute and other forms of scholarly documents. Where possible and available, we shall endeavor to provide access, as relevant to each work, to the full text of the documents covered in the Institutional Repository, without violating the copyright of the author or publisher.
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Women in South Asia had a different colonial experience compared to that of men. Colonialism liberated indigenous women from traditionally restrictive practices, expanding their mobility opportunities. It also introduced indigenous women to newer forms of colonial patriarchy and sometimes resurrected older forms of masculine privilege. Women attempted to overcome obstacles to education and healthcare, forced marriages, and restrictions on their freedom of movement. A group of women acti...
A feminist perspective explores and analyzes among its other themes, the theme of gender inequality. It talks about the discourses of patriarchy and sexism that have kept women oppressed and marginalized economically, politically, socially and psychologically. Lois Tyson asserts: “Feminist criticism examines how literature (and other cultural productions) reinforces or undermines the economic, political, social and psychological oppression of women.” (Tyson, 2019, p. 79) Disparity again...
In the aftermath of the First World War, indications of far-reaching changes in Indian politics became evident. Mahatma Gandhi’s rise in national politics certainly brought novelty to the nationalist movement. The Rowlatt Act, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the martial law in the Punjab intensified the anti-British imperialism of the common people. After that came the Khilafat problem. Gandhiji associated himself with the Khilafat movement at its full height. Gandhiji associated hims...
It has been held from ancient times that men and women are not equal. Some socially prescribed identities have been forced onto both genders. Based on people's biological or physiological differences, performances, competence, retention, and other capacities, society has developed some negative conceptions and established some binaries such as normal/abnormal, able/disabled, fit/unfit, etc. In order to oppress women, patriarchal society has created separate standards for men and women. ...
This article studies the representation of female bodies in two anime films: Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Satoshi Kon’s Paprika (2006) to study how the post apocalyptic cyborg and the dream realm’s alter ego both subvert the gender oriented paradigms by becoming Superflat bodies in a postgender space. Takashi Murakami’s Superflat manifesto talks about the bricolage of multiple flattened layers superimposed onto one another to create a composite surface of multiple focal ...
‘It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is to understand why she accepts them’ -Simone de Beauvior, The Second Sex Since time immemorial, women have been held in the shackles of mediocrity under the guise of domesticity. The notion of inferiority complex silently embedded in their psyche. The invariably assertive surroundings forcibly made an inevitable ...
Siliguri became the center of attraction for a bulk of Bengali immigrants from Assam to resettle in the new region. The extraordinary population-growth of the town especially during the second half of the twentieth century indicates the influx of the evacuees from Assam into the realm. After independence Siliguri Sub-division confronted with unusual pace in its development. Severe lucrative scope of secondary and tertiary sectors in the town favored the displaced people to get engaged i...
Procedure of estimating the different extensive air shower (EAS) parameters is inherently linked to the accurate estimation of the cosmic-ray EAS cores. In EAS data analyses, the core of an EAS is estimated simultaneously with other crucial EAS parameters like shower size, shower age, etc. by fitting the lateral density data (LDD) of either the EAS charged secondaries or purely electrons with some suitably chosen lateral density function employing the maximum likelihood method. The prese...
In this study, we report on the preparation of a polymer composite film with enhanced ( 99%) electroactive phases - and -phase) based on P(VDF-HFP) copolymer and Ce3+-complex. Furthermore, its utilization in piezoelectric-based flexible energy harvesting (PFEH) device fabrication has been studied, where the electrostatic interactions between the surface charges of Ce3+-complex and -CH2-/-CF2- molecular dipoles of P(VDF-HFP) via H-bonding co-operate to stabilize the electroactive phas...
Na2O doped glassy electrolytes have been developed to explore their electrical transport behaviour at ambient temperature. The electrical conductivity (mixed conduction) has been studied in the light of both frequency as well as temperature. In the low frequency range, the diffusional motion of Na+ ions is expected to be the possible reason for a flat conductivity. It is also noted that the conductivity shows dispersion near the high frequency regime. The DC conductivity ( dc) and hopping...
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