scholarly journals An extended distribution record of Western Ghats species Litsea oleoides (Meissn.) Hook.f. (Lauraceae) from Matheran, Maharashtra, India

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 12434-12438
Author(s):  
Radha Veach ◽  
Gurumurthi Hegde
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
South India ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Evergreen Forests ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Distribution Record

In the course of floristic explorations in the hill station of Matheran of Maharashtra, authors collected an interesting specimen of a Litsea. After critical examination and comparing specimens with all available collections in various herbaria including Kew, the tree was identified as Litsea oleoides (Meissn.) Hook.f., an endemic  species of wet evergreen forests in South India, hitherto not reported from Maharashtra. Same is reported here with notes on its distribution and phenology.

Sustainability of coffee land use upon conversion from natural forest in Western Ghats of South India: An evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.S. Karthika ◽  
K.S. Anil Kumar ◽  
K.M. Nair ◽  
M. D’Souza Violet ◽  
J.S. Nagaraj ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
South India ◽  
Natural Forest

scholarly journals Leisure, economy and colonial urbanism: Darjeeling, 1835–1930

Urban History ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
NANDINI BHATTACHARYA
Keyword(s):  
Unique Form ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
Constant Tension ◽  
Colonial Economy ◽  
Colonial Urbanism ◽  
The Hill

ABSTRACT:This article posits that the hill station of Darjeeling was a unique form of colonial urbanism. It shifts historiographical interest from major urban centres in colonial India (such as Bombay or Calcutta) and instead attempts a greater understanding of smaller urban centres. In the process, it also interrogates the category of hill stations, which have been understood as exotic and scenic sites rather than as towns that were integral to the colonial economy. In arguing that hill stations, particularly Darjeeling, were not merely the scenic and healthy ‘other’ of the clamorous, dirty and diseased plains of India, it refutes suggestions that the ‘despoiling’ or overcrowding of Darjeeling was incremental to the purposes of its establishment. Instead, it suggests that Darjeeling was part of the colonial mainstream; its urbanization and inclusion into the greater colonial economy was effected from the time of its establishment. Therefore, a constant tension between its exotic and its functional elements persisted throughout.

scholarly journals A new distribution record of the Western Ghats endemic damselfly Melanoneura bilineata Fraser, 1922 (Insecta: Odonata) from Maharashtra, India

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 19380-19382
Author(s):  
Yogesh Koli ◽  
Akshay Dalvi
Keyword(s):  
Western Ghats ◽  
First Time ◽  
Distribution Record ◽  
The Western Ghats ◽  
New Distribution

Melanoneura bilineata Fraser, 1922 is reported for the first time from Maharashtra, India. Previously it was only known from the Kerala and Karnataka states.

scholarly journals Notes on the extended distribution of Humboldtia bourdillonii (Fabales: Fabaceae), an Endangered tree legume in the Western Ghats, India

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 14886-14890
Author(s):  
Anoop P. Balan ◽  
A. J. Robi ◽  
S. V. Predeep
Keyword(s):  
Endemic Species ◽  
Western Ghats ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Tree Legume ◽  
Endangered Tree ◽  
Conservation Measures ◽  
Tiger Reserve ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Periyar Tiger Reserve ◽  
The Western Ghats

Humboldtia bourdillonii is an Endangered tree legume; considered endemic to its type locality in the Periyar Tiger Reserve in Idukki District of Kerala State.  A new population of this highly threatened endemic species is located in the Vagamon Hills of Kottayam District which is about 70km away from its original locality.  The newly located population is drastically affected by the severe floods and landslides that occurred in Kerala state during August 2018.  Urgent conservation measures are needed to protect the population from further loss.  

scholarly journals Understanding the Stability of Early Iron Age folks of South India with Special Reference to Krishna-Tungabhadra- Kaveri, Karnataka; Their Past-Present-Future

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Arjun R
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
South India ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Early Historic Period ◽  
Indigenous Development ◽  
Iron Smelting ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Hill

There are about 1933 Early Iron Age Megalithic sites spread across South India. The Early Iron Age of South India is implicit either in the form of burial sites, habitation sites, habitation cum burial sites, Iron Age rock art sites, and isolated iron smelting localities near a habitation or burials. This paper is an attempt to take a rough computation of the potentiality of the labour, technology and quantity of artifact output that this cultural phase might have once had, in micro or in macro level. Considering the emergence of technology and its enormous output in Ceramics, Agriculture, Metallurgy and Building up Burials as industries by themselves, that has economic, ethnographic and socio-technique archaeological imprints. This helps in understanding two aspects: one, whether they were nomadic, semi settled or settled at one location; two, the Diffusion versus Indigenous development. A continuity of late Neolithic phase is seen into Early Iron Age and amalgamation of Early Iron Age with the Early Historic Period as evident in the sites like Maski, Brahmagiri, Sanganakallu, Tekkalakota, T-Narasipur. In few cases, Iron Age folks migrated from one location to the other and settled on the river banks in large scale like that in Hallur and Koppa. In rare cases, they preferred to climb up the hill and stay on the rocky flat surface for example Aihole and Hiere Bekal– sites which are located close to or on the banks of the river or its tributaries of Krishna-Tungabhadra- Kaveri.Keywords: Labour, Industry, Production, Megaliths, Nomadic, Semi Settled, Early Iron Age.

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