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Item A Vision for Nutrition Research in Asia(Food Nutr. Bull., 2019) Shweta Khandelwal; Anura KurpadItem 'A light inside a pot': Sites and sources of power emerging from an ethnography of traditional healing in South India(Glob. Public Health, 2019) Devaki Nambiar; Arima MishraMedicine and healing have been critical elements of nation-building and governance in India. There is a clear hierarchy: biomedicine, followed by systems like Ayurveda which are to be 'mainstreamed,' and local health traditions, which are to be 'revitalised'. Mindful that power nonetheless resides in positions of marginality, this analysis drew from a health system ethnography on revitalisation of local health traditions in three southern Indian states. Data from multiple interviews with 51 healers, observations of meetings, healing sessions and events convened by healers, as well as a multi-stakeholder dialogue on local health traditions convened by authors were analysed using a grounded analytical process. The state was a source of power, but in an enmeshed, individualised form. Other sources of power included accomplished others who viewed healers and their practices with respect, healers' collectives that produced and reinforced power through the exercise of certain rituals, and the sacred calling to heal, which assumed stringent criteria for practice and training, while also creating a moral imperative for service orientation. Our study shows how power rests in or is derived from multiple sites and sources that inhere and interact in critical ways with the state and other systems of medicine.Item Census of India 1901 : Travancore, provincial tables, volume XXVI-B, part III("Malabar Mail" Press, 1903) Aiyar, N. SubramhanyaItem Action-research-based optimisation model for health care behaviour change in rural India(Int. J. Prod. Res., 2018) Sameer Prasad; R. P. Sundarraj; Jasmine Tata; Nezih AltayIn this research, we utilise a multi-method braided approach for a real-world health care intervention in rural India. We first use action research to conceptually underpin the role of self-help groups, disease profiles and appropriate interventions in health care behaviour change and improvement. Action research is then coupled with a non-linear integer-programming-based simulation to determine how health care resources need to be distributed over time, disease type and groups. The action research provides specific research questions and distributional forms needed for the optimisation analysis, while the non-linear integer-programming simulation provides specific recommendations on where and when to distribute resources. External validity of the study is ensured by the adoption of recommendations in the field as part of the action research. Findings from this research have important policy implications. For example, it identifies the value of continuous embedded interventions as opposed to periodic ones and the importance of flexibility in terms of which community groups and disease types to serve over time. This research also provides an important bridge between the operations research, health care in developing nations, organisational theory and humanitarian operations bodies of knowledge.Item The challenges of institutionalizing community-level social accountability mechanisms for health and nutrition: a qualitative study in Odisha, India(BMC Health Services Research, 2018) Francesca Feruglio; Nicholas NisbettThe primary research questions were ‘what kinds of community level mechanisms are functioning in randomly selected villages in 3 districts of state of Odisha' and 'how are they perceived to function by their members and frontline workers’.Item MISS EVERS' BOYS(1997)Item Census of India 1901: Bombay, report, volume IX, part I(Government Central Press, 1902) Enthoven, R.E.Item Census of India 1901 : Travancore, imperial tables, volume XXVI-A, part II("Malabar Mail" Press, 1903) Aiyar, N. SubramhanyaItem Census of India 1901 : Hyderabad, report, volume XXII, part I(A. Ven????paul Pillai and Son Printers to H. H. the Nizam's Government, 1903) Khan, Mirza MehdyItem Census of India 1901 : Madras, report, volume XV, part I(Superintendent Government Press, 1902) Francis, W.