CHRISTOLOGY IN CONTEXT: A TRIBAL‐INDIGENOUS APPRAISAL OF NORTH EAST INDIA. By YangkahaoVashum. Christian Heritage Rediscovered, 49. New Delhi: Christian World Imprints, 2017. Pp. xxxiv + 222. Paper, Rs. 850.

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 416-417
Keyword(s):  
New Delhi ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East

Book review: P. Gill and Samrat (eds.). 2018. Insider Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North-East India

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-240
Author(s):  
Partha S. Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
New Delhi ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East

P. Gill and Samrat (eds.). 2018. Insider Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North-East India. New Delhi, India: Amaryllis, xxvii + 244, pp., ₹399 (paperback), ISBN: 9388241355.

scholarly journals Moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of Delhi, India: An illustrated checklist based on museum specimens and surveys

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Komal ◽  
P. R. Shashank ◽  
Sanjay Sondhi ◽  
Sohail Madan ◽  
Yash Sondhi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Light Trapping ◽  
Indian Agricultural Research Institute ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Western Himalayas ◽  
National Capital Region ◽  
North East India ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
North East ◽  
National Capital

There have been several recent checklists, books and publications about Indian moths; however, much of this work has focused on biodiversity hotspots such as North-east India, Western Ghats and Western Himalayas. There is a lack of published literature on urban centres in India, despite the increased need to monitor insects at sites with high levels of human disturbance. In this study, we examine the moths of Delhi, the national capital region of India, one of the fastest growing mega-metropolitan cities. We present a comprehensive checklist of 338 moths species using 8 years of light trapping data (2012-2020) and examining about 2000 specimens from historical collections at the National Pusa Collection of ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi (NPC-IARI) spanning over 100 years (1907-2020). The checklist comprises moths from 32 families spanning 14 superfamilies with Noctuoidea (48.5%) and Pyraloidea (20.4%) being the the two most dominant superfamilies. We provide links to images of live individuals and pinned specimens for all moths and provide detailed distribution records and an updated taxonomic treatment. This is the first comprehensive annotated checklist of the moths of Delhi. The present study adds 234 species to the biodiversity of moths from Delhi that were not reported previously, along with illustrations for 195 species.

scholarly journals From the villages to the cities: the battlegrounds for Lepcha protests

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Little
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Sacred Landscape ◽  
North East India ◽  
North East ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Indian Central ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Lepchas are the Indigenous people of Sikkim, a small Himalayan state in north-east India. They are known for their deep knowledge of botany and ecology; their close connection to their landscape has been acknowledged and admired for centuries. Their feeling for nature and reluctance to accept change to their sacred landscape, contributed to a protest movement to stop the development of several mega hydro-electric projects inside the Lepcha Dzongu Reserve in North Sikkim. The Lepcha activists’ battle to stop the hydro projects started in Dzongu villages in 2003 and relocated to the capital of Sikkim, Gangtok in June 2007. Bhutia-Lepcha (BL) House, a worn out building on Tibet Road in Gangtok became the site of their flagship protest, a relay hunger strike which ran for close to two and a half years. The protest also extended to the Lepcha enclave in neighbouring West Bengal and the city of New Delhi where the activists spread their protest narrative to the wider Lepcha community, NGOs and the Indian Central government. In 2008 the Lepcha activists, aware that they needed to re-engage their community, started to shift their campaign back to the villages. This paper analyses the Lepcha protest narrative, contextualising it in terms of cultural heritage and contemporary political economy. It evaluates the protest group’s strategic use of both rural and urban settings to strengthen the impact of their campaign.

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