The Number and Names of the Much-Loved Five

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Louis E. Fenech
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Actual Number ◽  
Specific Choice

This chapter examines two facets of the Panj Piare narrative: the actual number and the names of the Panj Piare. The earliest evidence is very unclear in regard to these two well-known features of the Panj Piare story. Drawing upon eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Sikh texts of the gur-bilas and rahit-nama genres, among others, this chapter examines the reasons for why the Tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, may have stopped his selection at five volunteers and what this specific choice further tells us about the Tenth Guru and his understanding of the legacy of the Sikh Gurus that he had inherited.

Degrees of freedom and problems in f(T) gravity

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (supp01) ◽  
pp. 1850139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen Chin Ong
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Lorentz Invariance ◽  
Modified Theories Of Gravity ◽  
Recent Effort ◽  
Original Formulation ◽  
Actual Number ◽  
Specific Choice ◽  
Superluminal Propagation ◽  
Theories Of Gravity ◽  
Local Lorentz Invariance

Torsion-based modified theories of gravity, such as [Formula: see text] gravity, are arguably one of the very few “true” modified gravities based on well-defined geometric structures. However, the original formulation explicitly works in a specific choice of frame, which has led to considerable amount of confusion in the literature about these theories breaking local Lorentz invariance. Pathological properties such as superluminal propagation and the lack of well-posedness of Cauchy problem were found to plague [Formula: see text] gravity. Recent effort to “covariantize” [Formula: see text] gravity has, however, renewed interests in this subject. In this proceeding paper, we review and discuss issues concerning the actual number of degrees of freedom in [Formula: see text] gravity, and how this might relate to the aforementioned pathologies.

scholarly journals Imagining the Fishing: Artists and Fishermen in Late Nineteenth Century Cornwall

Rural History ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Deacon
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Traditional Approach ◽  
Fishing Communities ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Marginal Group ◽  
Specific Choice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Late Nineteenth

AbstractThe focus of postmodernist historians on language and representation clashes with the more traditional approach of the social historian to material structures and processes. This article adopts the suggestion of Wahrman that a ‘space of possibilities’ exists where these apparently competing perspectives might be connected. The concept of a ‘space of possibilities’ is pursued through a case study of a marginal group, the fishing communities of west Cornwall in the late nineteenth century. The article explores points of contact and contrast between the artistic and the fishing communities, between the painterly gaze and the subjects of that gaze. It is proposed that, while the artistic colonies and their representations might be explained as a result of discourses reproduced in the centre, their specific choice of location in Cornwall can also be related to the local economic and social history that granted them a space of possibilities.

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