Social Space: The Hill Station As a Cultural Community

2012 ◽  
pp. 174-197
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
The Hill

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.

Design and Fabrication of Automatic Brake in Vehicle

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaibhav S. Devadkar ◽  
Vinayak V. Deshpande ◽  
Omkar M. Dhamale ◽  
Bhaskar V. Erande ◽  
Rohit R. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Power Loss ◽  
Gear Wheel ◽  
Sensor Selection ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Sensor Interface ◽  
Braking System ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Hill ◽  
Design And Construction

In this project work the design and construction of a model of automatic braking system for vehicles in hill station is to be developed. The mechanism has been developed to stop the vehicle from rolling back word when the vehicle is moving in the hill roads. This construction made of two phases in a first deigns of ratchet and pawl mechanism, frame, shaft, etc. is done and in second sensor selection and interference is done. Ratchet and pawl mechanism has been fabricated and assembly with sensor interface is tested. The proposed mechanism is to reverse break using ratchet gear. By reverse locking the differential is disengaged from the axle. Thus the power is directly transmitted to the axle and hence to the wheels. This will considerably reduce the power loss in some occasions when unwanted loss is happening due to the transmission if power from the shaft to the ratchet gear and then to the axle and hence to the wheels. So in mechanism the unwanted power loss in the due course of transmission through the gear wheel is reduced.

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.

The Meteoric Stones of Baroti, Punjab, India, and Wittekrantz, South Africa

1913 ◽  
Vol 17 (78) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Prior
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Natural History ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Natural History Society ◽  
Hill Station ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The Village ◽  
Bombay Natural History Society

In 1912 Mr. N. B. Kinnear, Curator of the Bombay Natural History Society's Museum, brought to me at the British Museum, for identification, a specimen of a supposed meteorite which had been sent to the Bombay Natural History Society by the late General W. Osborn.General Osborn stated that, in November, 1910, on arrival at his usual winter quarters in the hill station of Kotheir in the Punjab, he visited his friend, the Rajah of Bilaspur, who presented him with a fragment, weighing about a quarter of a pound, of a meteorite which had fallen in daylight at the village of Baroti, in the Bilaspur (Simla) district, one day during the month of September, 1910.

The Hill Station

1983 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
James Hynes ◽  
J. Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Hill Station ◽  
The Hill
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