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Mukhopadhyay, Susmita, and Arpita Sarkar. "Pregnancy-related food habits among women of rural Sikkim, India." Public Health Nutrition 12, no. 12 (May 1, 2009): 2317–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1368980009005576.
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AbstractObjectiveEvery society follows its own traditional health-care beliefs and practices during and after pregnancy, which is intimately linked to its socio-cultural environment. The objective of the present study was to document pregnancy-related food practices and the social-cultural factors linked with them.DesignThe present study was a cross-sectional one conducted among a group of women residing in five villages in east Sikkim, India. Mothers who had given birth to a child one year before the survey participated in the study. The mothers answered a pre-tested questionnaire on food habits and practices followed antepartum and for 6 weeks postpartum.SubjectsThe study group consisted of 199 women of Nepali caste groups with variations in economic condition.ResultsMore than 86 % of mothers consumed special foods during the postpartum period. Taboos on different food categories during the postpartum were reported only by 65·3 % of mothers. Factors found to be significantly associated with special food consumption were literacy status during the antepartum and parity during the postpartum.ConclusionsThe change in consumption patterns reflects the success of a safe motherhood campaign propagated by the government. Detailed investigation in this area, involving per capita daily consumption during pregnancy and the postpartum period, is needed.
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Gupta, Radhika, L. Jamila Haider, and Henrik Österblom. "The theory of cross-scale interactions: an illustration from remote villages in Sikkim, India." Environment, Development and Sustainability 22, no. 4 (February 21, 2019): 3777–804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-019-00329-0.
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Chaudhary, Manjula, and Rinzing Lama. "Community Based Tourism Development in Sikkim of India—A Study of Darap and Pastanga Villages." Transnational Corporations Review 6, no. 3 (September 2014): 228–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5148/tncr.2014.6302.
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KUMAR, MANOJ, RAGHAVENDRA SINGH, RK AVASTHE, JK SINGH, PK PATHAK, and BINA TAMANG. "Exploring possibilities of Potato cultivation in Rice-Fallow of Sikkim." Journal of AgriSearch 8, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 155–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.21921/jas.v8i2.7301.
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Frontline demonstration on potato (Kufri Sindhuri) was conducted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, East Sikkim, India. A total 158 nos. of demonstration were conducted in rice-fallow (farmers’ practice) at farmer’s field in nine numbers of villages during the year 2019-20. Results revealed that average yield of rice and potato recorded was 2.09 t/ha and 14.13 t/ha, respectively. Higher system rice equivalent yield (REY) was recorded 16.22 t/ha in rice-potato and 2.1 t/ha and rice-fallow system. System production efficiency (SPE) was also higher in rice-potato (62.14 kg/ha/day) as compared to rice-fallow (14.51 kg/ha/day). Land use efficiency (LUE) was recorded 71.51 % and 39.45 % in rice-potato and rice-fallow system, respectively. Net return was found Rs.16032/ha in rice-fallow and Rs.183952/- with rice-potato system during the years of demonstration. Higher benefit to cost (B: C) ratio was found 2.82:1 in rice-potato than in rice-fallow (1.62:1) system. Economic efficiency was also recorded higher in rice -potato (704.80 Rs/ha/day) than rice-fallow (111.33 Rs/ha/day) during the demonstrated year. Hence, it may be concluded that the inclusion of potato in rice -fallow is an option for increasing the additional income of the farmers for their livelihood improvement.
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Tewari, Vinod C., and Victoria Z. Bryanne. "Mitigation and Bioengineering Measures for Prevention of the Surbhi Resort Landslide, Mussoorie Hills, Uttarakhand Lesser Himalaya, India." Journal of Nepal Geological Society 58 (June 24, 2019): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jngs.v58i0.24568.
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Recent cloud bursts and Glacial Lake Outburst Flood ( GLOF ) in the Uttarakhand Himalaya have triggered catastrophic landslides. Heavy monsoon precipitation lashed Uttarakhand causing devastation and series of new landslides in the region. The Surbhi Resort Landslide is located near the hill station of Mussoorie in Garhwal Himalaya, India, in the Upper Krol Limestone. After intense rain in August 1998, the Krol sedimentary deposits suddenly gave way as a deep-seated landslide, blocking the main Mussoorie-Kemptyartery for 15 days. In 2005, the velocity of the slide was determined to be 4–14 mm/year by previous workers, thus it was still active with a modest intensity. Recently in 2018, during monsoon there was heavy rainfall in the Mussoorie and mud flow in the Kemty Fall area. Huge amounts of quaternary debris are still lying on the slope, another high intensity rainfall or cloud burst in future could trigger another large-scale failure. Based on our recent detailed investigations, following mitigation and bioengineering measures are suggested. To lower the ground water table, a series of horizontal drains should be installed at the base of the crown portion of the slide. This would generate an additional discharge which has to be channeled down Rangaon-ka-Khala, the natural channel, down the slope to the Aglar River flowing in the valley below. To prevent further surface erosion, it is suggested that the Rangaon-ka-Khalamust be bioengineered with shrubs and grasses such as Eriophorum comosum, Saccharum spontanum, Pogonatherum spp. And Wood fordia fruticosa while the surrounding slope must be reforested with Quercus leucotrichophora, Alnus napelensis , Pinus spp.and Cedrus spp. Check dams must be constructed on the entire 3.5 km stretch of the Rangaon-ka-khala to lower the velocity of thewater. This could be done either as gabions or in the form of live fascines of Salix tetrasperma or Dalbergia sissoo. The catchmentarea above the Mussoorie-Kempty road can be expected to collect 60,000 m3 in 24 hours in a 25-years reoccurrence cloud burst. Thus proper drains (0.40 m in dia.) on the inside of the road must be installed. The flow velocity at these extreme events would be 4.8 m/switch is slightly above the recommended value. If this water is allowed to flow down the Rangaon-ka-Khala it will most certainly lead to a major debris slide with a vertical velocity of almost 100 m/s with huge erosive power. For this reason, this discharge should be channeled down in plastic or cement lined pipes, preferably to the west of the Siyagaon Village which is reported as stable rather than in the landslide zone itself. It is concluded that these mitigation measures and bioengineering plantation would certainly help stabilize the Surbhi landslide area to prevent further disaster in future that destroyed the water mills, fields of the surrounding villages and mud flow in popular Kempty Fall area. These measures may also be applicable for the other active landslide zones in the NW(Jammu and Kashmir) and NE ( Darjiling-Sikkim ) Himalaya.
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Rubita, Irengbam. "Sustainability Issue in Tourism: A Case Study of Yuksam Village, Sikkim." Atna - Journal of Tourism Studies 7, no. 2 (July 1, 2012): 117–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.12727/ajts.8.7.
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North East India is blessed with abundant tourism resources, which are unique in their own way. The flora and fauna of this region is regarded as one of the seven most bio-diverse regions of the world. Among the States in this region, Sikkim is quite a popular destination with both the domestic and international tourists. It is perhaps the only state, where one can travel 3500 meters above the sea-level in a space of 160 km. Sikkim is thus a trekker‟s paradise, offering a unique opportunity to trek to Mt. Kangchen-Dzonga. The gateway to this mountain is a small village called Yuksam in South Sikkim. Trends reveal that Yuksam is in the developmental stage of increasing growth of tourist influx, which would also have implications on the infrastructure, environment, natural resources, culture and eco-tourism of this village. So this paper aims to study how tourism in Sikkim, Yuksam in particular, can be sustained.
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Deep, Akash. "Crucial Impact of Globalization among Lepchas of Village Ranka, North Sikkim, India." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES 01, no. 04 (2020): 49–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.47505/ijrss.2020.9148.
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Rai, Peter. "Social Change in Sikkim in its Historical Context." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 15, no. 2 (June 6, 2019): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v15.n2.p2.
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<p>Sikkim is a land of myths, who has lost the pre-historic written documents but has left with the remarkable mystery of the country. Sikkim was sparsely populated and rich in natural resources including a large number of flora and fauna. There are three major ethnic communities, Lepchas, Bhutias and Nepalis inhabiting in the country. In the early period, Sikkim had a gigantic physical structure from the Himalayas to the plains. Earlier, the Tibetan called the territory of Sikkim as “Denjong, Demojong, and Deoshong, which have the same meaning as “Valley of Rice”. There is another myth, that, the first Tibetan king had made a palace in Rabdenchi, at that period of time the Limbo community people called the palace as “SU- HIM” which meaning as “New Home”. Another myth tells that in early days the Lepcha head married a Limbo girl from Limbuwan, and when she went to her father’s house, she told the people of the village that she had came from ‘Su Him’ or ‘New Home’. Later on, the Nepalese called it as ‘Su Khim’ instead of ‘Su Him’ but the advent of British in India, who could not pronounce the word ‘Su Khim’ and called it as ‘Sikkim’. That was the last change in the name of the nation for forever.</p>
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Thapa, Jwala D. "Spreading Environmental Awareness Through Environmental Education in Schools: The Case Study of a Sikkimese Green School." Asian Journal of Legal Education 8, no. 2 (July 2021): 234–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2322005820985574.
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The subject of environmental education (EE) in India, also known as environment studies (EVS), was introduced through the intervention of the Supreme Court of India (SC). At that time, there was also global recognition towards the creation of ‘environmental citizens’ through inculcating environmental awareness in school-going children, with the motto of ‘catch them young’. Since then, EE in India has seen an evolution in itself through enveloping the studies of various topics related to the natural environment. However, one of the concerns has been that it is taught in a theoretical manner and that since it is not treated as a graded subject, schools have not given it the importance it deserves. However, the study of a green school of the Himalayan state of Sikkim shows that active participation of state machinery, coupled with a practical interpretation of its principles, can lead to positive results. It also shows that the creation of environmental citizens needs a holistic approach, through both amalgamation of theory with practice and syllabus with stringent state intervention and results-oriented action. This article, which uses doctrinal, as well as field research, techniques of interview and observation, looks into these aspects through studying a school in a mountain village of West Sikkim in India.
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Amatya, Bhaba. "First Report of Polymelia in Shakini Breed Chicken from Nepal." Journal of Natural History Museum 28 (December 19, 2015): 175–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jnhm.v28i0.14193.
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Polymelia is a congenital anomaly (birth defect condition) which is associated with extra limbs or supernumerary limbs in human and animals. Congenital anomalies are associated with genetic factors (transgenes, chromosomes), environmental agents (infection, toxins, teratogens, fertilization techniques, management) or a combination of factors (Keeler et al., 1981; Newman et al., 1999). In supernumerary ectopic limb (SEC) anomaly, accessory limbs are attached to the various body regions (Fourie, 1990; Hiraga et al., 1989). These accessory limbs are usually smaller than the normal limbs and have stiff joints and sparse muscles with innervations (Pohlmeyer, 1974).Polymelia is reported from human, cattle, deer, dolphin, frog, cat, dog and poultry but is extremely rare in swine (Hiraga & Demis, 1993; Ramdan et al., 1998; Talamillo et al., 2005). Polymelia in birds is very rare. Only a few cases of polymelia in chicken are recorded from different parts of the world. A Nera black chicken (Gallus domesticus) with polymelia and rudimentary wing was reported from Nigeria in 2008 (Odunayo et al., 2013). A chicken with polymelia was reported from Kitam village, Sikkim, India in 2012(10 News WTSP Tampa Bay). In Egypt amputation of polymelia in a layer chicken was done in 2014 (Abu-Seida, 2014).For the first time polymelia in shakini breed chicken (Gallus domesticus) is recorded in Nepal. There is no previous report on such deformity in domesticated fowl in Nepal. The chicken with polymelia is ten days old and is detected in the author’s neighborhood in Pokhara valley, midwestern region of Nepal during the month of December, 2014. Physical examination of the chicken revealed well developed extra limbs consisting of the femur, tibiofibula and the phalanges which are attached to the upper region of the coccygeal area of the chicken. The limbs are smaller than the normal limbs with equal digits but are non-functional. The chicken looks normal and seems to have no problem with the supernumery limbs so far.J. Nat. Hist. Mus. Vol. 28, 2014: 175-177
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Chiphang, Singyala, and Ram Singh. "Livelihood Security Determinants of the Organic Farm Household in Sikkim, India: Ordered Logistic Regression Approach." Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology, August 1, 2020, 138–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030848.
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Aims: The study employed ordered logistic regression to assess the determinants of livelihood security of the organic farm households in Sikkim (India).
Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in three blocks of East Sikkim district (viz. Martam, Nangdok and Ranka) between January and December 2019.
Methodology: Multistage sampling technique was adopted for the study. Three blocks were selected and from each block 2 villages were selected at random. At the last stage 150 respondents were selected from 6 villages using random proportional sampling. Ordered logistic regression was applied to assess the determinants of the livelihood security.
Results: Landholding, distance to market and possession of livestock were the significant determinants of livelihood security for the organic farm households in Sikkim.
Conclusion: Livelihood security of the organic farm households in Sikkim was influenced significantly by the determinants like landholding, access to market and possession of livestock. Therefore, livestock rearing practices should be encouraged among the farmers and up to some extent livestock incentives must be given to the farmers of the region. Besides markets for organic products should be encouraged at block level respectively by the central or the state government so that farmer can access to their input and output easily.
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Little, Kerry. "From the villages to the cities: the battlegrounds for Lepcha protests." Transforming Cultures eJournal 5, no. 1 (June 22, 2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/tfc.v5i1.1579.
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Lepchas are the Indigenous people of Sikkim, a small Himalayan state in north-east India. They are known for their deep knowledge of botany and ecology; their close connection to their landscape has been acknowledged and admired for centuries. Their feeling for nature and reluctance to accept change to their sacred landscape, contributed to a protest movement to stop the development of several mega hydro-electric projects inside the Lepcha Dzongu Reserve in North Sikkim. The Lepcha activists’ battle to stop the hydro projects started in Dzongu villages in 2003 and relocated to the capital of Sikkim, Gangtok in June 2007. Bhutia-Lepcha (BL) House, a worn out building on Tibet Road in Gangtok became the site of their flagship protest, a relay hunger strike which ran for close to two and a half years. The protest also extended to the Lepcha enclave in neighbouring West Bengal and the city of New Delhi where the activists spread their protest narrative to the wider Lepcha community, NGOs and the Indian Central government. In 2008 the Lepcha activists, aware that they needed to re-engage their community, started to shift their campaign back to the villages. This paper analyses the Lepcha protest narrative, contextualising it in terms of cultural heritage and contemporary political economy. It evaluates the protest group’s strategic use of both rural and urban settings to strengthen the impact of their campaign.
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Jain, Amit Kumar, and Anuj Kumar Ruhela. "A REVIEW ON SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN." Scholarly Research Journal for Humanity Science & English Language 6, no. 26 (March 25, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.21922/srjhsel.v6i26.11571.
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India is a home to 1.21 billion people, about one-sixth of the world’s population. The Prime Minister of India launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) on 2nd October, 2014 to accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put focus on sanitation. It is India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and school and college students of India participated in this event. The SBM has two sub-missions, the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation is the nodal Ministry for SBM (Gramin) and Ministry of Urban Development is the nodal Ministry for SBM (Urban). The core objectives of SBM are to bring about an improvement in the general quality of life in the rural areas. India clean by October 2, 2019 with core objectives of making the country 100% free from Open Defecation and ensuring 100% Modern and Scientific Municipal Solid Waste Management as a fitting tribute to the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, which in rural areas shall mean improving the levels of cleanliness. Villages are considered "Open Defecation-Free" when no faeces are openly visible and every household and public/community institution uses safe technology to dispose of faeces in such a way that there is no contamination of surface soil, groundwater or surface water; excreta is inaccessible to flies or animals, with no manual handling of fresh excreta; and there are no odour and unsightly conditions. Usually, an "ODF village" declaration is made by the village or Gram Panchayat. As of 2016, 36.7% of rural households and 70.3% of urban households, 48.4% of households overall used improved sanitation facilities as per data of National Family Health Survey 4, which was conducted between January 2015 and December 2016, show. A majority, 51.6%, did not. Household toilet availability has improved from 41.93% 2014 to 63.98% in 2017, and the state of Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Kerala have achieved 100% Open Defecation Free (ODF) status as per data of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation. Gram Panchayats have self-declared 193,081 villages to be ODF, but 53.9% of these have not been verified, according to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, which is responsible for Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin, which accounts for 85% of Swachh Bharat Mission's budget. (Data accessed on May 22, 2017). According to the Swachh Survekshan 2017 Report, the top two cleanest cities in India are Indore and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh while Gonda in Uttar Pradesh is the dirtiest city in India, Every segment of population, from primary school children to elderly persons need to be properly sensitized about inherent linkages of sanitation for public health. Besides roping in the educational institutions, particularly the schools in awareness campaigns, optimum use needs to be made of social media as well as electronic and print media to spread the message to grass root level. Celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan is leading a “Darwaza Bandh” (on open defecation) campaign for SBA. The film Toilet: Ek Prem Katha was released in Indian Cinema in the year of 2017 to improve the sanitation conditions, with an emphasis on the eradication of open defecation, especially in rural areas. Swachh Shakti 2018 is celebrated in Lucknow with 15 thousands women Swachh Bharat Champions resolving to usher in Clean India on International Women’s Day (8th March 2018).
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Singh, Rashmi, Rishi Kumar Sharma, Tsering Uden Bhutia, Kinzong Bhutia, and Suresh Babu. "Conservation Policies, Eco-Tourism, and End of Pastoralism in Indian Himalaya?" Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 5 (March 17, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.613998.
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State-led policies of pastoralist removal from protected areas, following the fortress model of biodiversity conservation, have been a common practice across parts of Asia and Africa. In the Himalayan region of South Asia, restrictive access and removal of pastoralist communities from protected areas have been compensated by the state through “eco”-tourism. In this paper, we critique the current conservation model adopted in the Indian Himalaya, which focuses on a conservation-pastoral eviction-ecotourism coupling. With a focus on pastoralists and pastoral practices, we argue that this model is neither an inclusive engine of development, nor does it always help conservation. Instead, it recreates a landscape favoring the state's interests, produces exclusions, and may also negatively affect both society and ecology. We build on the case of Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP) situated in Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya. We used mixed methods and conducted 48 semi-structured interviews, 10 key informant interviews, and two focused group discussion in the four village clusters situated in the vicinity of KNP, West Sikkim. The grazing ban policy and concomitant promotion of tourism caused the end of pastoralism in KNP. It transformed a pastoral cultural landscape into a tourist spot with a transition in livestock from the traditional herds of yak and sheep to the pack animals and non-native hybrid cattle. Locally perceived social impacts of the grazing ban include loss of pastoral culture, economic loss, and the exclusion of the pastoral community from the park. As per the respondents, perceived ecological effects include a decline in vegetation diversity in the high-altitude summer pastures, altered vegetation composition in the winter due to plantation of non-native tree species, and increased incidents of human-wildlife conflict. Rangelands of the Himalaya transcend political boundaries across countries. The conservation model in Himalaya, should henceforth be done with a trans-boundary level planning involving the prime users of high-altitude rangelands, i.e., the pastoralists. The lessons from this study can help design effective future policy interventions in landscapes critical for both pastoralist cultures and wildlife conservation.
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Thapa, Manisha, and Pinak Tarafdar. "Impact of Religion on Traditional Health Care Practices Among the Lepchas of Upper and Lower Lingthem of Upper Dzongu, Sikkim, India." Contemporary Voice of Dalit, March 26, 2021, 2455328X2199571. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2455328x21995711.
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In all cultures and regions, the concept of health varies, based on the type of environment and prevalent sociocultural traditions. The present study is conducted among the Lepchas of the village of Lingthem divided into two sectors—Upper and Lower Lingthem, Upper Dzongu, North Sikkim. This population comprising Buddhist Lepchas residing away from the mainstream through poor infrastructural facilities still maintain ethnomedical health care practices without influence of major Indian healing systems. Living in the area of Dzongu exclusively inhabited by Lepchas revival of ancient cultural practices is evident among Lepchas of Lingthem. The structure of religious beliefs prevalent among the Lepchas, including traditional animistic as well as Buddhist practices, greatly influence forms of treatment sought for specific ailments. Even today, the use and maintenance of traditional health care with syncretized Buddhist religious belief among residents of Lingthem act as a vital source for understanding the influence of religion on traditional health care practices. Despite the presence of a few modern health care agencies, the traditional treatment of Bongthing (Lepcha shaman) and Buddhist monks remain widely popular as primary means of health care.
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Hastrup, Frida. "PÅ SIKKER GRUND: Genhusning efter tsunamien i Tamil Nadu." Tidsskriftet Antropologi, no. 59/60 (December 1, 2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i59/60.106843.
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This article explores the various meanings ascribed to destroyed, repaired and
newly constructed houses in the South Indian fi shing village of Tharangambadi
which was heavily affected by the tsunami disaster in December 2004. The article
focuses on re-housing both as implemented by authorities and as understood by
the survivors, thereby investigating divergent notions of danger and safety. The
overall argument is that re-housing as a spatial practice is a much more comprehensive
process than the mere shift of locality from a disaster-prone area to a
safe area. By looking at practices of re-housing and the ways in which both old
and new houses are engaged with and appropriated, it becomes clear that what is
at stake for the survivors in Tharangambadi is a general attempt at establishing
a sense of control over the physical surroundings, the trust in which was temporarily
ruined by the tsunami. The article shows how in a disaster-affected region
the sense of inhabiting a safe ground is dependent on something other and more
than solid walls.
Keywords: Catastrophy, security, hominess, materiality.