Jewellery

Jewellery or jewelry (American English; see spelling differences) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example. For many centuries metal such as gold used in different carats from 21, 18, 12, 9 or even lower, often combined with gemstones, has been the normal material for jewellery, but other materials such as shells and other plant materials may be used. It is one of the oldest …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 February 2024 English

In their 2024 working paper "Sexist Textbooks," Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd, researchers with the Center for Global Development, Washignton D.C., investigate gender bias in textbooks from 34 …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 February 2023 English

This film follows the lives of Kishan and Babudi, who are among the last makers and players of the ravanhattha, a string and bow musical instrument believed to be the …

tourist destination in Udaipur city. Babudi sells jewellery, while seated next to Kishan playing the ravanhattha


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 25 February 2023 English

Love and longing are captured in this Kutchi folk song set in Bhuj. This is the second in the series of Kutchi folk songs on PARI

incurs a huge amount of debt to buy the required jewellery. With the death of Hamirio, Hamli loses the right


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 January 2023 English

The Delhi-based Oxfam India published this India supplement of the Survival of the Richest report on January 15, 2023. It was written by Apoorva Mahendru, Kanishk Gomes, Mayurakshi Dutta, Noopur, …

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Museum of Ethnography · 14 September 2022 Swedish

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 May 2022 English

In a small town in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj district, Fatima Bibi and Ayesha Begum are shaping the revival of moonj craft, one blade at a time

the dried grass, like baskets, bins, coasters, jewellery and decorative items. Right: Fatima Bibi, Ayesha's


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 April 2022 English

to let them starve, she handed over her gold jewellery to be sold or pawned so that food could be bought


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 March 2022 English

This report was published on March 30, 2022, by Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network, a coalition of Dalit activists from across India, in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences, …

took money from her monthly salary and valuable jewellery. He then refused to marry her and verbally abused


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 February 2022 English

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 October 2021 English

It's been hard days for powerloom weavers in the city's Bazardiha cluster – with lockdowns and monsoon flooding. But it’s the UP government’s review of their electricity subsidy that has …

adds that families in his locality sold their jewellery, took loans, and depended on PDS rations and help


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