Pattern of dune accretion and its climatic implication in the southern Thar Desert margin, western India

2021 ◽  
Vol 130 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shubhra Sharma ◽  
Falguni Bhattacharya ◽  
Gaurav Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Western India ◽  
Thar Desert ◽  
Climatic Implication

scholarly journals Assessment of Hepatoprotective Potential of Manilkara hexandra STEM Bark: An In-vitro Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Prasoon Kumar Saxena ◽  
Deepak Nanda ◽  
Ritu Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Tetrachloride ◽  
Cell Line ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Stem Bark ◽  
Western India ◽  
Thar Desert ◽  
Hepg2 Cell Line ◽  
Vitro Analysis ◽  
In Vitro Analysis

Background: Manilkara hexendra (Bignoniaceae) is tree species, privately known as Rohida, found in Thar Desert districts of northwest and western India. The bark acquired from the stem is utilized as a solution for syphilis, urinary issues, amplification of spleen, gonorrhea, leucoderma, and liver infections. The point of this work is to consider the hepatoprotective impact of unrefined Methanolic removal from the bark portions of Manikara hexendra. The methanolic extricate got from bark portions of Manikara hexendra was assessed via cell line study in HepG2 cell line followed in for hepatoprotective movement in rodents by initiating liver harm via paracetamol and carbon tetrachloride. Results: The methanolic extricate at an oral portion of 200 mg/kg displayed a critical (P < 0.05) defensive impact. These biochemical perceptions were enhanced by histopathological assessment of liver areas. The action might be a consequence of the presence of flavonoid mixes. Moreover, the intense harmfulness of the concentrates gave no indications of poisonousness up to a portion level of 2000 mg/kg. Conclusion: It could be inferred that the methanolic concentrate of Manikara hexendra has huge hepatoprotective properties.

Scottish Missionaries, ‘Protestant Hinduism’ and the Scottish Sense of Empire in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century India

2007 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Constable
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western India ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Church

This article examines the Scottish missionary contribution to a Scottish sense of empire in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initially, the article reviews general historiographical interpretations which have in recent years been developed to explain the Scottish relationship with British imperial development in India. Subsequently the article analyses in detail the religious contributions of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church Missions to a Scottish sense of empire with a focus on their interaction with Hindu socioreligious thought in nineteenth-century western India. Previous missionary historiography has tended to focus substantially on the emergence of Scottish evangelical missionary activity in India in the early nineteenth century and most notably on Alexander Duff (1806–78). Relatively little has been written on Scottish Presbyterian missions in India in the later nineteenth century, and even less on the significance of their missionary thought to a Scottish sense of Indian empire. Through an analysis of Scottish Presbyterian missionary critiques in both vernacular Marathi and English, this article outlines the orientalist engagement of Scottish Presbyterian missionary thought with late nineteenth-century popular Hinduism. In conclusion this article demonstrates how this intellectual engagement contributed to and helped define a Scottish missionary sense of empire in India.

Mammai Mataji

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-126
Author(s):  
Peter Maddock
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Western India ◽  
Right Action ◽  
Great Goddess ◽  
The World ◽  
Feminine Divine

The theological and sociological implications associated with the existence (or non-existence) of ancient Great Goddess religions have been hotly debated for more than half a century, even prior the rise of recognizable feminist approaches to Archaeology and Religious Studies. This rare, if not unique, ethnographic account of such a theology as practised today is therefore a significant intervention, hopefully putting some clothes on otherwise naked speculation. The Sorathiya Rabari pastoralists of Saurastra, western India, hold Mammai Mataji as their Godhead. Mammai Dharma (religion) provides their path to salvation and a guide to right action in the world. It is a vital ingredient of Sorathiya Rabari identity and offers a structure for intra-caste political organization. Like most other Hindus, Rabari social values are unambiguously patriarchal, so how this coexists with belief in an omnipotent feminine Divine is explored throughout the article.

Report on drilling activities in the Thar Desert, Sindh Province, Pakistan

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. Thomas ◽  
James E. Fassett ◽  
Peter D. Warwick ◽  
Bruce R. Wardlaw ◽  
Abas A. Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thar Desert ◽  
Sindh Province
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