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A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY ON CHILD REARING PRACTICES in Rural
Goa Jagadish Cacodcar, Anagha Dubhashi, Shilpa Joglekar
Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University
Aim: To assess the traditional child rearing
practices among rural Goan mothers and the various
socio-demographic factors influencing these
practices.
Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was
conducted among 307 rural mothers with children < 2
years in two rural areas under rural health and
training centre Mandur located 16 kilometres from
Panaji Goa, through house to house visits and oral
interviews. Analysis of collected data was done
using Microsoft Excel and SPSS version. Chi-square
test was applied in addition to proportions and
percentages.
Results: Rooming in was practiced by majority (86%)
of the mothers within 24 hours of birth. 46.25% of
the mothers fed colostrum to their newborns while
73.62 % of the mothers breastfed within 24 hours.
37.59% of the mothers practiced exclusive
breastfeeding (EBF) for the first six months. The
mean duration of breastfeeding was 11.015 th months.
90% of the women was educated 12 standard and above
breastfed their babies up to 12 months. Bottle
feeding was common (75%). Cereal based diet was the
commonest complementary feeding administered by 23%
of the mothers.
Commonest traditional practices followed included oil
massage (97.72%) and use of amulets/talisman (97.72%)
in the study population.
Conclusion: Beneficial infant feeding practices such
as early initiation of breastfeeding and feeding of
colustrum among rural Goan mothers was low despite
accessible antenatal care and health care services.
However, though some of the traditional children
rearing practices followed such as oil massage,
delivery at parents' home were as per the recommended
norms, some of the beliefs/practices such as kajal
application, bathing the newborn immediately after
birth, need to be replaced by sound and scientific
methods.
WHAT DID THE JESUIT WHO VISITED AYODHYA centuries ago have to
say? Hint: answer not here... See a mention to Jesuit
missionary Joseph Tiefenthaler http://t.ly/KYv93
BRIDGING THE CENTURIES: A Brief Biography of Wamanrao Varde
Valaulikar Jason Keith Fernandes https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.7048
The extant representations of the late nineteenth-century
personality Wamanrao Varde Valaulikar (1877-1946), known as
Shenoi Goembab to Konkani activists, are marked by a
hagiographical character. The present article offers a
biography of the man which eschews these nationalist
hagiographies to place the man in the context of his times
and to demonstrate his primary role as an activist in the
creation of the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin caste. In so doing,
the article demonstrates how the foundations for the
contemporary Goan public sphere were laid in the nineteenth
century. http://t.ly/RCZ-t
HYBRIDITY IN THE COLONIAL ARTS OF SOUTH INDIA, 16th–18th
Centuries Simona Cohen https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12090684
Published in Religions 5A
This study examines the multiplicity of styles and
heterogeneity of the arts created on the southern coasts of
India during the period of colonial rule. Diverging from the
trajectory of numerous studies that underline biased and
distorted conceptions of India promoted in European and
Indian literary sources, I examine ways in which Indian
cultural traditions and religious beliefs found substantial
expression in visual arts that were ostensibly geared to
reinforce Christian worship and colonial ideology. This
investigation is divided into two parts. Following a brief
overview, my initial focus will be on Indo-Portuguese
polychrome woodcarvings executed by local artisans for
churches in the areas of Goa and Kerala on the Malabar coast.
I will then relate to Portuguese religious strategies
reflected in south Indian churches, involving the destruction
of Hindu temples and images and their replacement with
Catholic equivalents, inadvertently contributing to the
survival of indigenous beliefs and recuperation of the Hindu
monuments they replaced. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12090684
Vol. 12, no. 9 p. 684 http://t.ly/-MN1N
INDIANISMS IN BRAZILIAN AND GOAN POETRY: the cases of
Gonçalves Dias and Paulino Dias Duarte Braga, Hélder Garmes
Gragoatá Universidade Federal Fluminense
In both Brazilian and Goan literary criticism, what
has been designated as "Indianism" has distinct
referents and cronologies. The presence of the
Indian in Brazilian nascent literature is a
