Order of the Madras High Court dated 07/06/2021 in the matter of Suo Motu Vs Archaeological Survey of India & Others regarding safeguarding of archaeological monuments in Tamil Nadu. The Madras High Court, June 7, 2021 in a slew of measures directed the concerned authorities to establish Mamallapuram World Heritage …
This study re-examines the notions in colonial India about the causes of malaria, specifically discussing the environmental reasons pointed to at the time. It shows how and to what extent some of the widely held ideas of the colonial era on environmental causation contributed to and, at the same time, …
This is an investigation into how serious the kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis) situation was in colonial Bihar, what the government's policy was to control it and how the people responded to it. Until 1903, medical men had little idea about the true nature of this disease, which spread rapidly in the …
This paper identifies paradigmatic shifts in the conceptualisation of fevers in British Ceylon, from agues and fevers in the early 1800s and fevers of particular regions in the mid-1800s to a powerful notion of malaria in the early 1900s. In the early colonial records, agues and fevers were seen primarily …
Social sciences are vastly neglected in the country. So it's refreshing when a school organizes a history exhibition. The Thanjammal Memorial Elementary School in Tiruchi organized one such exhibition. It covered primary class' syllabi of social sciences. The countless years and wars in history were made easy by pasting chronologically …
custard apples belong to South America. A recent excavation in a small town in Uttar Pradesh has unearthed custard apple seeds there. The seeds date to the Neolithic era
A Sindh Archaeology Department team visited the pre-historic site of Lakhian-Jo-Daro near here on Thursday and handed over to the DCO a letter from the director general of Pakistan Archaeology Department seeking his help in removal of encroachment from the 5,000-year-old ruins. The team's leader Deputy Director Mazhar Ali Mirani …
The public sphere of civil society is not static; it continually shrinks, expands and moves in the face of changing contours of political economy at the local, national and global levels. As a consequence, those within such public spheres have to navigate their efforts in an informed manner; and those …
In the summer of 2007, Shell officials at the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago were in a spot of bother. Business was fine for the oil company and environmentalists and other usual gadflies weren't making much noise. But the Shell factory in Barracones Bay was confronted with an awkward …
These 17,000-year-old cave paintings of bison, wild cattle, deer and other animals are facing a fungal attack for the second time in seven years. Nicknamed Sistine Chapel of pre-history, the caverns are at Lascaux in southwestern France. Scientists are treating the cave walls with a fungicide to check the spread …
During the first 40 years of British colonial rule in Zimbabwe, from 1890 to 1930, European farmers and miners established commercial farms and mines (in prime natural regions
The British began extending their control over forests in India (including Uttaranchal, or Uttarakhand) after passing the Forest Acts of 1865 and 1878. This was driven by the increasing demand for timber, and hence the growing significance of forests as a source of revenue. Forests also acquired strategic importance with …
In the wake of consistent rise of rate of inflation during the first quarter of calendar year 2007 and responding to the concerns expressed at various fora and by various opinions including by Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in its 17th Report, …
The present work examines the changing notion of wastelands and contested rights over it in Assam in the last 200 years. As the East India Company gradually became aware of this region, they expressed their serious interest in the wastelands. The initial intervention took place with the discovery of tea …
In ancient India, agriculturists were quite aware of the relation between soil properties and crop production. Several systems of soil classification were in vogue. Ancient Indian scriptures contain elaborate injunctions regarding the use of various kinds of manures for crop production.
A once top-secret manuscript by Wernher von Braun, the Nazi physicist turned leading figure in us space exploration, which is widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern space science went under the hammer in New York. The 166-page document, which von Braun wrote for his PhD dissertation …
The mummy of King Tutankhamen went on a public display for the first time on November 4, after archaeologists removed the body from his stone sarcophagus in an underground tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. The 3,000-year-old remains needs immediate protection, since they started deteriorating from …
A throng gasped as a blue crate containing a 2.5-tonne slab of marble regarded as one of the most important works of antiquity, was hoisted by a giant crane from the Acropolis in Greece. This was the first sculpture to legally leave the citadel since Phidias carved the artworks 2,500 …
Can an art museum provide clues to pollution 200 years ago? Maarten van de Guchte, director of the Museum of Art and Cummer Gardens at Riverside in the us believes it can. "Look at the yellow sunset light reflected in the ponds,' he says pointing to a brightly coloured area …
