scholarly journals Darwin's bulbuls: South Asian cultures of bird fighting and Darwin's theory of sexual selection

BJHS Themes ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Projit Bihari Mukharji
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Selection ◽  
British Empire ◽  
South Asian ◽  
The South ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Human Labour ◽  
Complex Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The article explores the extent and nature of the relationship between Darwinian science and the British Empire. It does so by unpicking Darwin's British Indian examples of avian combat in constructing his ‘law of battle’. The article shows how Darwin's interpretation of these reports was simultaneously enabled, shaped and limited by the imperial context within which the reports were generated. Particularly important was Darwin's inability to see the enormous investment of human labour and complex knowledge in sculpting and curating these avian fights through a culture of shauq. Partly this oversight followed from the South Asian birds having already been saturated by Romantic poetic associations, even before Darwin began considering them. Somewhat surprisingly, I note, Clifford Geertz shared Darwin's blindness towards the ‘cultural’ sculpting of ‘nature’ during avian combat.

scholarly journals South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC): Prospects for Development

2004 ◽  
Vol 43 (4II) ◽  
pp. 933-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwarika Dhungel
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
South Asian ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
House Of Cards ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Recently, the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) completed two decades of its existence. The heads of states or governments of its member countries, viz. Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, once again would meet in Dhaka and reaffirm their faith in the organisation and its charter. Considering the political reality within the individual SAARC nations, and especially the relationship between the two biggest members of the association, one could feel satisfied that the association has survived so far. But its movement in terms of achieving the objectives for which it was formed has been slow and it is criticised as a house of cards or a house built on sand, which can fall apart any time. There is a big stress in the interrelationship between neighbours.

scholarly journals Determinants Of Foreign Direct Investments In The South Asian Association For Regional Cooperation

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Teulon ◽  
Khaled Guesmi
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Unit Root ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
The South ◽  
Fdi Inflows ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Relationship

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows and their determinants in six major countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) over the period 1998 to 2010. Using panel data techniques, we account for the possible presence of both economic dependencies and structural breaks. The findings show that there are common variables of economic significance among the examined countries. Macro determinants, such as openness, growth rate, exchange rate, and economic instability, have a long-run impact on FDI inflows in the panel. The results are submitted to a battery of tests, including panel unit root and panel co-integration tests.

Linkage of the South Asian High to the Southern Annular Mode during the Boreal Summer

2014 ◽  
Vol 962-965 ◽  
pp. 1404-1409
Author(s):  
Jian Zhang ◽  
Yan You Guo ◽  
Cheng Shan Wang
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Surface Wind ◽  
Southern Annular Mode ◽  
Boreal Summer ◽  
South Asian High ◽  
Interhemispheric Interaction ◽  
The South ◽  
Sea Level Pressure ◽  
Annular Mode ◽  
The Relationship

The linkage of the South Asian High (SAH) to the southern annular mode (SAM) during the boreal summer is addressed. The results show that the SAH correlated well with the Southern Hemispheric subtropical high (SSH) and SAM, which exhibits that their recent positive trends are associated with each other. During the positive SAH anomalies years, roughly speaking, the sea level pressure (SLP) and the zonal surface wind (u10) are analogous to that of the positive SAM phase, but they also show an anomalous zonal-wave-3-like (ZW3-like) pattern over the mid latitudes. The surface temperature (ST) variations are not similar to the SAM. Nevertheless, these changes are related with the anomalous cyclones and meridional surface wind (v10). The relationship between the SAH and SAM is also a manifestation of the interhemispheric interaction, and this study contributes to the understanding of the global change.

scholarly journals Revisiting the relationship between the South Asian summer monsoon drought and El Niño warming pattern

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangxing Fan ◽  
Xiao Dong ◽  
Xianghui Fang ◽  
Feng Xue ◽  
Fei Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Summer Monsoon ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Asian Summer Monsoon ◽  
South Asian Summer Monsoon ◽  
The South ◽  
Warming Pattern ◽  
Asian Summer ◽  
The Relationship

‘A young slip of botany’: botanical networks, the South Atlantic, and Britain’s maritime worlds,c.1790–1810

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McAleer
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Cape Of Good Hope ◽  
Network Building ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
St Helena ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
Maritime Empire

AbstractThis article explores the relationship between science and empire, through the prism of British botanical engagement with the South Atlantic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It investigates the logistics of plant exchanges, as information, expertise, and specimens followed the maritime contours of the British empire. The discussion traces the nascent network-building undertaken by officials, residents, and visitors on St Helena and at the Cape of Good Hope, and the exchange of plant specimens with London and, crucially, with other places around the empire. The article suggests that such activities offer perspectives on wider patterns of interaction with an area located at the crossroads of Britain’s maritime empire. In time, the region forged its own botanical networks and created alternative axes of exchange, association, and movement.

From the Promise of Samosas to Hosting Bollywood Blowouts: Innovations in Reaching Out to the South Asian Community

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Sharma ◽  
Razia Kosi ◽  
Ulash Thakore-Dunlap ◽  
Sushama Kirtikar
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Community ◽  
South Asian Community

Labels, Histories, Politics: Indian/South Asian Dance on the Global Stage

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
AVANTHI MEDURI
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
First Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Indian Nation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Uk

In this paper, I discuss issues revolving around history, historiography, alterity, difference and otherness concealed in the doubled Indian/South Asian label used to describe Indian/South Asian dance genres in the UK. The paper traces the historical genealogy of the South Asian label to US, Indian and British contexts and describes how the South Asian enunciation fed into Indian nation-state historiography and politics in the 1950s. I conclude by describing how Akademi: South Asian Dance, a leading London based arts organisation, explored the ambivalence in the doubled Indian/South Asian label by renaming itself in 1997, and forging new local/global networks of communication and artistic exchange between Indian and British based dancers and choreographers at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Heritage

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Shaikh ◽  
Stefano Bonino
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Online Video ◽  
The South ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Video Footage ◽  
Community Heritage ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The Way

The Colourful Heritage Project (CHP) is the first community heritage focused charitable initiative in Scotland aiming to preserve and to celebrate the contributions of early South Asian and Muslim migrants to Scotland. It has successfully collated a considerable number of oral stories to create an online video archive, providing first-hand accounts of the personal journeys and emotions of the arrival of the earliest generation of these migrants in Scotland and highlighting the inspiring lessons that can be learnt from them. The CHP’s aims are first to capture these stories, second to celebrate the community’s achievements, and third to inspire present and future South Asian, Muslim and Scottish generations. It is a community-led charitable project that has been actively documenting a collection of inspirational stories and personal accounts, uniquely told by the protagonists themselves, describing at first hand their stories and adventures. These range all the way from the time of partition itself to resettling in Pakistan, and then to their final accounts of arriving in Scotland. The video footage enables the public to see their facial expressions, feel their emotions and hear their voices, creating poignant memories of these great men and women, and helping to gain a better understanding of the South Asian and Muslim community’s earliest days in Scotland.

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