scholarly journals A Tale of Two Maps: A Study of Western Cartographic Practices and Indigenous Pictorial Representation of Varanasi

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
M. Gogate
Keyword(s):  
Ganga River ◽  
Pictorial Representation ◽  
Organic Complex ◽  
Mathematical Abstraction ◽  
River Ganga

This paper argues that western cartography notions and practices have rejected mainly the Indian way of understanding the space and its distinct representational approaches. The map-making tradition in India visualises space as organic, complex and connected arrangements, exercises for mapping Varanasi city carried out by the British scholar James Prinsep in 1822, in contrast, relied on mathematical abstraction and land centric ideologies. The consequences of such contrasting styles and methodologies for visualising space, I argue, was made most acutely perceptible in the manner in which the river Gaṅgā was understood and positioned within the respective frameworks. While in western cartographic reckoning Varanasi was considered to be a dry space that was abutting the flowing Ganga river, in the indigenous representational formats the very same space was characterised as being a region where land and water met and interwove a continuum between the fluvial and the terrestrial.

scholarly journals DETERMINATION OF CHLORIDE ION(Cl-) CONCENTRATION IN GANGA RIVER WATER BY MOHR METHOD AT KANPUR, INDIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 06-08 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhulekha Shukla ◽  
Sunita Arya
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Chloride ◽  
River Water ◽  
Chloride Concentration ◽  
Chloride Ion ◽  
Ganga River ◽  
Selective Method ◽  
The People ◽  
River Ganga ◽  
Chloride Salts

Purpose of the study:The purpose of this present study was determine the concentration of chloride ion in water sample which collected different site and season of river Ganga.Chloride ions in the environment can come from sodium chloride or from other chloride salts such as potassium chloride, calcium chloride and magnesium chloride. Methodology:Water sample was collected from different site(Bithor ghat, Siddnath ghat and Dhoni ghat) and different season(Pre monsoon, Monsoon and post monsoon) of river Ganga from Kanpur in 2016-2018 year. Mohr method (Argentometric method) was a very simple and highly selective method for the determination of chloride ion (Cl-) using silver nitrate as the titrant. Main Findings: In both the years 2016 till 2018, chloride concentration was within the limit at testing sites.  Applications of this study:To create awareness among the people to maintain the Ganga river water at its highest quality and purity levels. Originality: This project was done in the D G P G College C S J M University, Kanpur India.

DIVERSITY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS AT THE BANK OF RIVER GANGA IN DISTRICT BALLIA OF UTTAR PRADESH

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
SUBHASH CHANDRA ◽  
RAHUL PANDEY
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Ganga River ◽  
Human Diseases ◽  
River Ganga

The paper reports 46 species of medicinal plants with common and scientific names belonging to 46 species and 41 genera under 26 families from the eight sites viz. Belahari, Baria, Chandpur, Manjhua, Manjhi ghat, Mahavir ghat, Nagwa and Srirampur at banks of Ganga river in the district of Ballia for cure of various human diseases

scholarly journals Water quality assessment using NSFWQI, OIP and multivariate techniques of Ganga River system, Uttarakhand, India

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gagan Matta ◽  
Anjali Nayak ◽  
Avinash Kumar ◽  
Pawan Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
River Water ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
Surface Water Quality ◽  
Ganga River ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
River Ganga

Abstract Ganga River water is very much stressed with the rapidly increasing population, climate change and water pollution that increase domestic, agricultural and industrial needs. This study assesses the surface water quality of the River Ganga in India, using NSFWQI, OIP and multivariate techniques. During the current study, water samples from Ganga River were collected for the assessment of 19 physico-chemical determinants from 20 sampling locations. Water quality indices (WQIs) is used to classify the overall impact of different variables of water. Multivariate techniques were utilized to assess the water conditions for productive management of fresh water quality. The WQI results showed that surface water quality varied at the selected sampling sites among medium and good categories. The PCA generates the 6 principle components which highly contributes (80.3%) in influencing the hydro-chemistry of river water. Agricultural waste runoff, untreated effluents and many other anthropogenic activities were identified as main contributor in decreasing the water quality of the River Ganga. To maintain and protect this fresh water resources against contamination, the usage of stringent policies and rules are expected to preserve fresh water resources for people in the future.

Baseline information of reproduction parameters of an amphidromous croaker Johnius coitor (Hamilton, 1822) from Ganga river basin, India with special reference to potential influence of climatic variability

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uttam Kumar Sarkar ◽  
Malay Naskar ◽  
Koushik Roy ◽  
Deepa Sudheesan ◽  
Sandipan Gupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Temperature ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Additive Model ◽  
Ganga River ◽  
Reproductive Phenology ◽  
Kaplan Meier ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
River Ganga ◽  
First Maturity

Reproductive biology of female amphidromous croaker Johnius coitor (Hamilton, 1822) was studied for the first time from various freshwater stretches of Ganga river basin, India in relation to climatic variability. The species showed high spatial variation in reproductive phenology and capable of breeding during pre-monsoon, monsoon, post-monsoon and winter. Water temperature is the most crucial environmental parameter influencing gonadal maturation and breeding. Generalized additive model (GAM) models revealed water temperature near 23–25 °C as optimum and threshold GSI above 3 units necessary for breeding. Pre-spawning fitness (Kspawn50) and size at 50% maturity (LM50) benchmarked through Kaplan-Meier survival fit estimates were in the range 1.27–1.37 units and 19–24.5 cm respectively. First maturity of females was encountered at 11.4 cm within the size range 7.2–28.5 cm. Egg parameters in mature-ripe females ranged between 0.29–0.80 mm (diameter), 0.05–0.19 mg (weight) and 5687–121 849 eggs (absolute fecundity). Mapping of climate preferendum through LOESS smoothing technique hinted water temperatures <20 °C and >32 °C to be detrimental for attainment of pre-spawning fitness while no dependence on rainfall was observed. Based on the climato-hydrological influence on breeding and regional trends of changing climate along river Ganga, we infer minimal climate driven changes in breeding phenology of this amphidromous fish species. Results of this study may serve as baseline information for future studies assessing climate driven changes and evolutionary adaptations in croakers from river Ganga.

scholarly journals Riverine Fish of Murshidabad: A Study on River Ganga

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suchismita Medda ◽  
Santi Ranjan Dey
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Pattern ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Fish Fauna ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ganga River ◽  
Fish Diversity ◽  
Fish Ecology ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
River Ganga ◽  
Riverine Fish

Murshidabad is a district of West Bengal, India and situated on the eastern bank of river Hooghly, a distributary of river Ganga. Although, many studies on fish ecology and fish systematics have been conducted largely to improve fisheries but fish diversity and their distribution pattern from conservation point of view have never been adequately addressed in the Ganga River. In this present study priority was given to prepare a consolidated list of fish fauna that have been found in the part of river Ganga which flows through the District Murshidabad. 74 species belonging to 9 orders and 24 families are found in the river Ganga of Murshidabad district. Family Cyprinidae representing highest number of species viz. 21. The order Cypriniformes is represented by 26 species followed by order Siluriformes containing 20 species.

Arte ConTexto

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Antonio Bellisario ◽  
Leslie Prock
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Pictorial Representation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Socialist Government ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Military

The article examines Chilean muralism, looking at its role in articulating political struggles in urban public space through a visual political culture perspective that emphasizes its sociological and ideological context. The analysis characterizes the main themes and functions of left-wing brigade muralism and outlines four subpolitical phases: (i) Chilean mural painting’s beginnings in 1940–1950, especially following the influence of Mexican muralism, (ii) the development of brigade muralism for political persuasion under the context of revolutionary sociopolitical upheaval during the 1960s and in the socialist government of Allende from 1970 to 1973, (iii) the characteristics of muralism during the Pinochet dictatorship in the 1980s as a form of popular protest, and (iv) muralism to express broader social discontent during the return to democracy in the 1990s. How did the progressive popular culture movement represent, through murals, the political hopes during Allende’s government and then the political violence suffered under the military dictatorship? Several online repositories of photographs of left-wing brigade murals provide data for the analysis, which suggests that brigade muralism used murals mostly for political expression and for popular education. Visual art’s inherent political dimension is enmeshed in a field of power constituted by hegemony and confrontation. The muralist brigades executed murals to express their political views and offer them to all spectators because the street wall was within everyone's reach. These murals also suggested ideas that went beyond pictorial representation; thus, muralism was a process of education that invited the audience to decipher its polysemic elements.

REMOTE SENSING BASED APPROACH ON RECENT CHANGES IN PLATFORM OF RIVER GANGA FROM MIRZAPUR TO BALLIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
ANAND AKASH ◽  
ASHWINI KUMAR ◽  
G. PATIL RAMAPPA ◽  
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◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
River Ganga

Socioeconomic Challenges faced by Basin’s People in India

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-304
Author(s):  
Biplab Tripathy ◽  
Tanmoy Mondal
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
High Tide ◽  
North East ◽  
The People ◽  
Term Basis ◽  
Major River ◽  
River Ganga ◽  
Basin Region ◽  
Basin Area

India is a subcontinent, there huge no of people lived in river basin area. In India there more or less 80% of people directly or indirectly depend on River. Ganga, Brahamputra in North and North East and Mahanadi, Govabori, Krishna, Kaveri, Narmoda, Tapti, Mahi in South are the major river basin in India. There each year due to flood and high tide lots of people are suffered in river basin region in India. These problems destroy the socio economic peace and hope of the people in river basin. There peoples are continuously suffered by lots of difficulties in sort or in long term basis. Few basin regions are always in high alert at the time of monsoon seasons. Sometime due to over migration from basin area, it becomes empty and creates an ultimate loss of resources in India and causes a dis-balance situation in this area.

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