Archives-February 2020

Abdominal pregnancy is a rare condition related with non negligible risks to mother and foetus. It can occur primarily or secondary to tubal abortion or rupture with implantation of the conceptus in the peritoneal cavity. We present a case of a 39 years old woman in her second pregnancy, with 33 weeks amenorrhea, which was admitted with abdominal pain and blackish bleeding. The ultrasonography revealed a foetal death located in the abdomen and the ct scan confirmed the diagnosis. The patient was successfully managed.

Dalit Christian is not recognised as a valid social category in India. Hence, they are not covered under any compensatory measures such as reservations and special legal safeguards which are otherwise extended to Dalits who belong to Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist communities, though caste-based prejudices are strong in Christianity and Dalit Christians too face similar forms of discrimination and exclusion as other Dalits. Though there is enough evidence in social science literature on the identity issues and discrimination faced by Dalit Christians, there remains several other questions to be addressed alongside while examining the claim for group-specific policy interventions for Dalit Christians. The most important one possibly is the caste-religion interface of non-Hindu Dalits. This is significant in the context that religion is the primary criterion to officially define Scheduled Castes in India as per the Constitutional Order of 1950. As per the formal definition “no person who confesses a religion different from the Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist religious conviction shall be considered to be a member of Scheduled Castes.” This paper attempts to address some of the questions using the available literature and official data. The study is largely based on the historical and current social science literature on caste among the Christians in India.

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