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Come September, Kohima will be host to the third Sustainable Mountain Development Summit (SMDS-III), an annual key activity of the Indian Mountain Initiative (IMI) that aims to provide a platform for the mountain states of the Indian Himalayan Region to come together, share experiences, discuss issues of concern and evolve consensus on how to address them.
The first two summits...
An International Conference on “Green India: Strategic knowledge for combating climate change: Prospects & challenges” (GISKCCC2013) will be held at the Department of Ecology & Environmental Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India during December 5-7th , 2013, to explore technical, environmental, economic, financial and institutional challenges and...
Papers in this Open Issue of MRD address diverse key concerns of sustainable mountain development as identified in the final outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Papers in the MountainDevelopment section examine how stakeholder analysis can enhance integrated water management in Uganda and how communication endeavors can improve...
Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village of Darveshpura in north-east India and he knew he could improve on the four or five tonnes per hectare that he usually managed. But every stalk he cut on his paddy field near the bank of the Sakri river seemed to weigh heavier than usual, every grain of rice was bigger and when his crop...
With great pleasure and expectations, we would like to invite our learned and esteemed partners to actively participate in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya regional e-discussion on Sustainable Mountain Development (SMD), scheduled from 4th till 24th April 2011. The e-discussion is a preliminary brainstorming session for preparing the Hindu Kush-Himalayan status report on challenges and opportunities...
This research focuses on the place of religion in two lower caste movements for social change in the Indian states of Punjab and Maharashtra. The paper notes that both groups faced the challenge of distancing themselves from Hinduism, whilst at the same time developing a cultural and critical system that would give coherence and legitimacy to the movements.
The document points...
<p>Colonel Kilpatrick's mission to Nepal was undertaken in early 1793. His itinerary lasted less than seven weeks, from February 13 until April 3. The cause of the mission lay as far as Nepal was concerned, in the danger that was looming large in the north just before the start of the Nepal-Tibet war of 1972. Nepal wanted military help from the British government of Bengal to...
<p>Due to the peculiar geographical position of the country, the trade of Nepal was confined to Tibet and India, and a few articles passed between Nepal and China via Tibet. The British Indian records of the period under study cast more light on the trade relations between India and Nepal. But there existed no registered trade between the two countries up to 1875. For this reason, the...
<p>There is evidence that Ganapati, Kakatiya of Warangal had the Gauda king as his vassal. This was mentioned in connection with the religious offerings and donations made by Yuvarajni Viramadevi, widow of the crown prince Yuvaraja Jayadityadeva in the shrine of Pashupatinath.</p>
<p>The author contends that written records dating back to the period were in a mixture of...
Previous studies of vowel duration in various languages, including English, have shown that some factors affecting vowel duration are: i) the degree of opening of the vowel; ii) certain properties (voice, place, and manner or articulation, and "force" of articulation) of the following consonant; iii) linguistic structure, i.e. the nature of the phonemic contrasts employed by a given language;...
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