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The Making of Womanhood in Early India: Pativrata in the Mahabharata and Ramayana

Kang, Myungnam (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

As the symbol of a patriarchal society, the Pativratas have been recognized as the ideal women in the brahmanical tradition. Traditionally Sita, Savitri, Arundhati, Anasuya and Damayanti have long been celebrated as the ...
Personal Level Challenges Associated with Inability of Youth in Urban Undeserved Settlements to gain Productive Employment

Edirisinghe, I.K. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Many empirical research studies have highlighted that the majority living in urban underserved settlements are engaged in insecure, low income livelihood sources mainly in the informal sector. In that context, the present ...
Nutrition knowledge, food habits and healthy attitude of graduates on diet related chronic non-communicable disease: a cross sectional study in the Southern Eastern University of Sri Lanka

Mufas, A.H.M.; Rifas, A.H.M.; Fareeza, A.H.L.; Perera, O.D.A.N. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also known as chronic diseases, are not transmitted from person to person, are of long duration and generally slow in progression. In Sri Lanka, diet-related chronic NCDs currently account ...
Women work issues in rural development: a case of m.g.nrega implementation in west Bengal, India

Sarmistha saha (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Based on gender and development (GAD) approach, this paper explores how M.G.NREGA is opening a new window for the ease of livelihood for rural women in India. M.G.NREGA is the first right based and demand driven employment ...
Medicinal values of plants that are habitat to coastal areas of Sri Lanka: A literary study

Gunaratna, T.A.N.R.; Samarathunga, D.K.; Liyanage, J.A. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Herbs cover the complete range of growth habits and sizes of plants. As a tropical country there are several plants available in Sri Lanka’s coastal areas that are habitat in large scale. Borassus flabellifer, Cocos nucifera, ...
Comparison and review of Environmental Management Systems among the government institutions in Sri Lanka

Gunawardhana, L.M.A.P.; Jayawickrama, K.G.G.K. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

The organizations in the world have been suffering from various types of environmental problems in the recent past due to their activities, products and services. Environmental Management System (EMS) is a comprehensive ...
Socio-economic Schemata Conveyed through Physical Appearance of a Criminal in an Eyewitness Context

Nirmani, W.A.S.; Karunanayake, D.D.K.S. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

The prime factor of wrongful convictions in global criminal justice systems is mostly due to evidence provided by eyewitness misidentifications. Among a wide array of causes for this fallibility in memory, schema-driven ...
Rethinking the Disability Digital Divide in Relations to Visual Disability in Sri Lanka

Wedasinghe, N.; Wicramarachchi, R. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

People who are blind or visually impaired do not have equal opportunities to access information technology and internet access compared to the non disabled population in Sri Lanka. The level of usage of ICT by the disabled ...
The impact of migration on the marital relations and personal development: with reference five villages in Walallawita Regional Secretary Division, Matugama

Wijewardhana, B.V.N.; Kumari, L.M.S.N. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

The family is the smallest unit in the society and it faces a large number of problems. In the current social set up, one of the major problems that a family encounters is finance. In finding solutions to financial problems, ...
A Critical Reading of Environmental Kuznets Curve: CO2 Emissions in a Developing Country

Tutulmaz, Onur (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) proposes a non-monotonic relationship between the environment and economic level. It also tries to define another important reduced relationship along with economic development. Therefore ...
Indian Environmentalism: Discourse, Politics and Fragments

Tripathy, Jyotirmaya (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

It is often customary to represent environmentalism in the industrialised North as a predominantly middle class phenomenon whereas Indian environmentalism is hyphenated with questions of equity and distributive justice. ...
Seasonal Feeding Ecology of the Elephants in the Udawalawe National Park, Sri Lanka: (A Geographical Survey)

Isthikar, M.A.M. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Elephants (elphahas maximus maximus) play a vital role as the Flag ship Species in Sri Lanka. As the study area, Udawalawe National Park (UNP) is one of the ideal national parks for elephants in the country where they are ...
Textile Industry of Ancient Sri Lanka

Dilhani, Anuruddhika (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Textile Industry could be identified as one of highly valued industries in ancient Sri Lanka. The origin of the Textile Industry is indefinite. But there is adequate proof that this industry was been in existence during ...
Dimensions of Rural Poverty in Sri Lanka: An attempt to identify the crucial aspects of well-being of rural poor

Semasinghe, W.M. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Though, identification of the dimensions of poverty of a specific setting is crucial for poverty analysis and designing targeted poverty reducing programs, there is no consensus among researchers, policymakers etc. on the ...
Financial Liberalization Index for Sri Lanka

Adikari, A.M.P. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Financial liberalization is a process of liberalizing the financial system of an economy by reducing controls in interest rates, financial intermediaries, and markets. Since the mid-1980s, the World Bank and the International ...
Your morning cuppa and the language of disability: a study of usage of metaphors and attitudes in telugu news reporting

Bendukurthi, Nookaraju (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Language is an important arbiter of meaning: it builds our understanding of the world and shapes our beliefs. What we know and what we believe about a particular phenomenon has a lot to do with the specific words used to ...
Determinants of income diversification of flue cured tobacco barn owners in Sri Lanka

Jayamanna, G.G.M.D.T.; Dharmadasa, R.A.P.I.S.; Abeysekara, N.N.R.; Ekanayake, E.M.J.B. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Except tobacco farming, tobacco barn owners move to different income sources such as other crop cultivation and non-Agricultural activities due to clear differences in the living status. Therefore, this study aims to analyze ...
Export competitiveness of the Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Sri Lanka: a case study based on the gem and jewellery sector

Dollawatta, N.N.W.; Dasanayaka, S.W.S.B. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

The factors affecting the export competitiveness of Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) are very complex. From the firm’s point of view, the trading environment SMEs conducts their business play an important role. ...
Towards fundamentalism: globalization, moral order and the case of Iran

Lecamwasam, N.O.; Gunasekera, O.D.A. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Globalization is a multi-faceted phenomenon that causes the steady erosion of political, cultural and economic boundaries of nations by facilitating an increasingly uniform world system. Culturally, globalization expects ...
Sacred Geography of Chalukya Temples

Niharika, S. (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015)

Badami, Aihole, Pattadakal and Mahakuta are situated in Bagalkot district of the state of Karnataka on and near the banks of river Malaprabha. The Malaprabha valley became the settling ground for human habitation from ...

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