The Oriyas live mainly in the province of Orissa in eastern India, which became a state on 1 April 1936. The bordering states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chaatisgarh, and West Bengal have been influenced by different cultural traditions and have produced...

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INTRODUCTION FEMINIST ACTIVISTS working in India today are both troubled and puzzled by their apparent inability to mobilize Hindu women. Why, they ask themselves, have they been relatively ineffective in energizing Hindu women both to protest gender injustices and to directly fight...

Philologos Forward 08-26-1994 ON LANGUAGE: Israeli Dogs Say 'Woof, Woof'. BY PHILOLOGOS The Hebrew language in modern Palestine/Israel had to fight many battles with other languages before -- seemingly against all linguistic odds -- it was revived as the daily speech...