The Matrioshka Principle and Its Discontents

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-93
Author(s):  
Zoltán Biedermann
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Regional Conflict ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
The Way

Chapter 3 explains on what grounds Lankan rulers remained committed to the idea of co-opting the Portuguese through tributary diplomacy, against the backdrop of a growing regional conflict involving the Muslim Mappilas of South India. Negotiations culminated in 1542 with the reception in Lisbon of an embassy sent by king Bhuvanekabāhu VII of Kōṭṭe to John III of Portugal. In addition to a magnificent ivory casket, significant archival materials survive today to give us a detailed picture of how the inter-imperial deal was imagined in the Lankan capital along the lines of the principle of nesting empires, the ‘Matrioshka principle’. These papers also show the limitations of the conversation. A picture emerges that is at once astounding in the way it contains two very different but commensurable imperial models, and ominous in the way these two models do not quite talk to each other in the way the elite of Kōṭṭe expected.

scholarly journals A Study on Jainism History, Philosophy and Traditions in Tamilnadu

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
M Rajeshwari ◽  
A Amirthavalli
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
South India ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Indian History ◽  
South Indian ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

In Tamil Nadu Hinduism and Buddhism, Jainism is one of the three oldest Indian strict conventions still in presence and a necessary piece of South indian strict conviction and practice. While frequently utilizing ideas imparted to Hinduism and Buddhism, the consequence of a typical social and phonetic foundation, the Jain convention should be viewed as a free marvel as opposed to as a Hindu order or a Buddhist blasphemy, as some previous Western researchers accepted. In South India, Jainism is minimal in overflow of a name. Indeed, even genuine understudies of religion in India gave little consideration to it. In a populace of almost 60 crores of individuals, Jainas may establish almost nearly 3 million individuals. Jainism is the religion of the Jains who follow the way, lectured and rehearsed by the Jinas. It is a fully evolved and grounded religion and social framework that rose up out of 6 century BC .The trademark highlight of this religion is its case to all inclusiveness which it holds essentially contrary to Brahmanism. It very well may be said that throughout the previous 2500 years the Jains have contributed such a huge amount to each circle of life of Indian individuals both as a religion and a way of thinking. They contributed a lot to the regions of culture, language, exchange and agribusiness, or all in all the Jains opened up another period of human thoughts and musings. In Indian History, endeavors were made to contemplate Jainism as a religion and its commitments yet focus on the Jain movement into Tamil Nadu and its effects are restricted. An endeavor is made in this examination to investigate the recorded geology of the Jain focuses in Tamil Nadu.

Periphrasis in Tundra Nenets1

Periphrasis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Nikolaeva
Keyword(s):  
Number System ◽  
Dual Form ◽  
Intransitive Verbs ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Rare Instance ◽  
The Way

A detailed picture of periphrasis in Nenets (Uralic) presents a typologically rare instance of periphrasis in a nominal paradigm (as opposed to more familiar verbal periphrasis). Previous accounts treated Nenets nouns as an uncontroversial example of periphrasis, but this chapter demonstrates that a closer look reveals a more complicated picture. It argues that the choice between the usage of the periphrastic dual form and the numeral ‘two’ (which takes the singular) correlates with definiteness and/or discourse givenness. In addition, analysis of this rare instance of periphrasis in a noun system reveals interesting aspects of the way the number system works in the language. The chapter also investigates the periphrastic realization of verbal negation, where the auxiliary carries the information of the verb type. For intransitive verbs, the type is either ‘subjective’ or ‘reflexive’ and there are, surprisingly, arguments in favour of treating these as purely morphological classes.

South India the Way Union Works

1956 ◽  
Vol 45 (177) ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
T. S. Garrett
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
The Way

The Presentation of the Fixing Accuracy of Navigation Systems

1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. H. Trow ◽  
A. H. Jessell
Keyword(s):  
Hyperbolic Systems ◽  
Graphical Methods ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Radial Error ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper discusses the way in which the accuracy provided by different navigation systems can best be presented diagrammatically, and it is concluded that contours of constant 95% radial error give the best general picture of a system. Where a more detailed picture is required error ellipses can be added at suitable points in the system. The 95% radial error of fixing is calculated for radial, rθ, azimuthal and different hyperbolic systems, and graphical methods are developed for drawing contours along which the 95% error is constant, and also for drawing 95% ellipses. Diagrams show typical results for the different systems.

The wartime work of Hinshelwood and his colleagues

2004 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Rowlinson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Inorganic Chemical ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Extramural Research ◽  
The Way

C. N. Hinshelwood and his physical and inorganic chemical colleagues in Oxford worked throughout World War II on the improvement of charcoal for use in respirators and on other physicochemical problems. The surviving reports and correspondence give a detailed picture of what they accomplished and on the way in which extramural research contracts were then handled.

“A Fondness for Military Display”: Conquest and Intrigue in South India during the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1839–40

2018 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Mallampalli
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
South India ◽  
East India Company ◽  
British India ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Military Action ◽  
Conspiracy Narratives ◽  
The Way

As the East India Company prepared for its First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42), its officials grew suspicious of a Muslim uprising within British India. They became convinced that itinerant Muslim reformers—mislabeled “Wahhabis”—were inciting princes of India's Deccan region to rebellion. This article describes how the very talk of this “Wahhabi conspiracy” not only triggered the interventionist impulses of the colonial state, but also inspired local intrigues associated with the downfall of two Indo-Afghan princes of the Deccan, Kurnool's Ghulam Rasul Khan and Udayagiri's Abbas Ali Khan. In both cases a preoccupation with the transnational Wahhabi operative masked local and sometimes petty interests, which drove the politics of these smaller regimes. The case studies of Kurnool and Udayagiri illustrate how news of events arising in one region of imperial conflict could “travel” to remote regions of India's Deccan, evolving into conspiracy narratives along the way. The discourse of conspiracy provided a pretext for military action and the annexation of territory. The story being told, however, is not simply about paranoid colonial officers who were all too eager to intervene, but is also about local entrepreneurs who knew how to exploit the situation toward their own ends.

South Asia

2020 ◽  
pp. 542-573
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Shokoohy ◽  
Natalie H. Shokoohy
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
South India ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
North And South ◽  
The Way

In South Asian archaeology, Buddhist and Hindu sites and monuments dominate, while Muslim ones, with the exception of a few grand edifices, have never been given the priority they deserve. In India, there has been little significant excavation of any Muslim sites, but during the British period the major ones were gradually identified, some of the better-preserved monuments were restored, while the ruins, if regarded as significant, were cleared of debris and rudimentary efforts made to preserve the standing remains. After Partition, the Archaeological Survey of India continued to maintain Muslim sites such as those in Delhi; the forts and monuments of Bidar, Bijapur, Daulatabad, and Gulbarga in the Deccan; scattered remains in Gaur and Pandua (the site of Laknautī, the Muslim capital of Bengal); and the monuments in Jaunpur (Uttar Pradesh) and Sasaram in Bihar. The monuments of Ahmadabad and some other towns of Gujarat have been more extensively studied. Whatever has been undertaken in the way of fresh exploration in North and South India has been mainly by independent scholars and experts. In Pakistan, some excavation has been carried out in the early Muslim sites, including at Banbhore, the site of the ancient port of Daibul, and at Brahmanābād, the site of al-Manṣūra, the seat of the Arab governor of Sind, both dating from the first and second century of the Hijra. In Bangladesh, the historic sites already restored before Partition have been maintained, but funds and resources to carry out fresh excavations or restoration are lacking. Much is left for present and future archaeologists to explore.

The Punishment of Amalek in Jewish Tradition: Coping with the Moral Problem

1994 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avi Sagi
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Moral Problem ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
The Way

The story of Amalek's deed occurs twice in the Bible: in Exod 17:8–16 and in Deut 25:17–19. The account in Exodus is quite succinct: “Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Refidim” (Exod 17:8); in contrast, the description in Deuteronomy paints a broader and more detailed picture: “Remember what Amalek did to thee by the way, when you were come out of Egypt: how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were feeble in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God” (Deut 25:17–18). The Exodus version, although sparing in its description of the particulars, offers the more dramatic account of the war between Israel and Amalek.

Communicating Science through the Language of Dance: A Journey of Education and Reflection

Leonardo ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 426-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonie L. Stolberg
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Cycle ◽  
South India ◽  
Classical Dance ◽  
Dance Pedagogy ◽  
Dance Company ◽  
Future Science ◽  
Professional Dance ◽  
Scientific Ideas ◽  
The Way

Bharatanatyam, the classical dance style of South India, is adept at conveying complex, multilayered narratives. This paper documents and reflects upon the interactions between the author, a scientist and educator, and a professional dance company as they strive to develop and produce a dance-drama about the carbon cycle. The author examines the process by which scientific ideas are shared with the artists and the way a scientific narrative becomes one with an artistic meaning. The paper also examines areas for possible future science-dance collaborations and explores the necessary features for a collaborative science-dance pedagogy.

The Making of a Liturgy

1951 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
L. W. Brown
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Church Of South India ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

This article contains a brief account of the way in which the eucharistic liturgy of the Church of South India was drawn up and indicates some of the points about which opinions differed among the representatives of the different traditions sharing in this task.

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