scholarly journals Differential Heating in the Indian Ocean Differentially Modulates Precipitation in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Basins

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Pervez ◽  
Geoffrey Henebry
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Differential Heating ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Ganges

scholarly journals Modulation of the Ganges‐Brahmaputra River Plume by the Indian Ocean Dipole and Eddies Inferred From Satellite Observations

2017 ◽  
Vol 122 (12) ◽  
pp. 9591-9604 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Fournier ◽  
J. Vialard ◽  
M. Lengaigne ◽  
T. Lee ◽  
M. M. Gierach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean Dipole ◽  
River Plume ◽  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Brahmaputra River ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Ganges

Adh-Dhahabī's “Ta'rīkh al-islām” as an Authority on the Mongol Invasion of the Caliphate

1936 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 595-604
Author(s):  
Joseph de Somogyi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
The People ◽  
Abbasid Caliphate ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Ganges

Scarcely ever has Islām experienced more tragical times and more hardships than during the Mongol invasion in the course of the thirteenth century a.d. With the despite of the nomads, practitioners of the open-air life, for sedentary occupations, the people of Jengis Khān turned against and mercilessly destroyed the towns and works of civilization everywhere. Their disastrous campaign was only facilitated by the decomposition of the political unity of Islām at that time. In Baghdād the 'Abbāsid caliphate still subsisted, but its splendour was on the wane; to the west of Baghdād, in Egypt, Palestine, and a part of Syria, the Ayyūbids reigned, and in Asia Minor the Seljūqs, while to the east of Baghdād the Turkish princes from Khiva had, a rather insecure hold on the vast stretch of the Khwārizmian empire from the Ganges to the Tigris and from Turkestān to the Indian Ocean. This state of affairs was inviting to an enterprising invader of the sort of Jengis Khān who, in 1218, crushed the Khwārizmian empire, while his grandson, Hūlāghū Khān, put an end to the 'Abbāsid caliphate in 1258. The western provinces of Islām, including Egypt, were, however, spared from the devastating fury of the Mongols by the Mamlūk Sulṭān's victory over Ketbogha, Hūlāghū's general, at 'Ayn Jālūt, Palestine, in 1260. When in 1299–1301 his grandson Qāzān failed in conquering Syria Islām was definitely safe from further Mongol attacks.

scholarly journals Banaras in the Indian Ocean: Circulating, Connecting and Creolizing Island Stories

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Srilata Ravi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Ocean Island ◽  
Paul Et Virginie ◽  
Indian Ocean Island ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Ganges

What links Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s 1788 novel about Isle de France, Paul et Virginie, with V.S. Naipaul’s 1972 piece, An overcrowded Barracoon? What is common to Joseph Conrad’s 1910 novella, A Smile of Fortune, and tourist brochures of La Grande Baie? What brings together the story of the ruins of Babylon and the Ghats of the Ganges? Actually, these seemingly disjointed narratives make up a vast library of inter-connecting Indian Ocean island stories. In this study I will use the image of ‘Banaras’ as the locus of an inter-textual reading exercise connecting the literary spaces of Mauritian writer and filmmaker Barlen Pyamootoo with other stories like those mentioned above. Pyamootoo’s literary universe reveals to us the dynamic, multilayered and polyphonic nature of Indian Ocean island cultures.

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