Legume crops provide significant nutrition to humans as a source of protein, omega-3 fatty
acids as well as specific macro and micronutrients. Additionally, legumes improve the …

Microsatellites (SSRs) are tandem repeat sequences in eukaryote genomes, including plant
cytoplasmic genomes. The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) has been shown to vary in size …

The late twentieth-century economic liberalization that transformed India from a License Raj
to a so-called NGO Raj paralleled a burgeoning interest in Indian hijra communities, aided …

Indian mainstream feminist discourses, with their fixation on the universalization of Indian
women's experiences, have regarded gender as an unsophisticated category. This …

The conventional cultural construct of gender and sexuality embedded in the dichotomous
paradigm makes it challenging for people with queer and trans identities to fit into an …

The current significant trends in climate change, the possibility of further changes, and the
growing scope of possible climatic impacts make it imperative to address agricultural …

Due to their long-standing marginalisation in mainstream social and cultural settings, the
hijra community continuously strives for recognition. Bollywood film Laxmii 2020 has added …

Since the 1990s, there has been a noteworthy shift in the way hijras are perceived and
represented in India. They have become hyper-visible in Indian literature, cinema, media …

This thesis investigates the centrality of caste in modern Indian English fiction. Although
caste permeates and is relayed through the religiously sanctioned practice of …

Transgender or people whose gender identity or gender differs from the sex that they were
assigned at birth are generally a class of subalterns. They are deprived of even basic and …