Architecture ; Cultural studies ; Hinduism ; Historical geography ; India ; Middle Age ; Religion ; Settlement
Vaastu Shastras are architectural treatises of medieval India and are based upon a metaphysical design philosophy that is uniquely Hindu. Article traces the antecedents of settlement design in those sacred treatises, which deal with architectural
India ; Livestock farming ; Mountain ; Tamil Nadu ; Tribe
The Todas are a scheduled tribe of India, occupying highlands around the upper Nilgiris. They were formerly entirely dependent on buffaloes and had invented the most complicated dairy rituals ever devised. The Todas have recently switched
Caste ; Common land ; Ethnicity ; Gender ; Himalaya ; India ; Mountain ; Pastureland ; Rural society ; Village
Authors examine the uses of mountain commons in two villages in the manali area, Kulu Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India. Land settlement of 1886 provided local people with well defined resource rights and some local control over two resource areas
Bangladesh has a rich heritage from two ancient religions, Hinduism and Buddhism. When Muslims invaded India, they brought a different architecture that was modified by local customs, climate, materials, and technology. Mosques in Bangladesh have
This paper discusses the geomorphic response to late Quaternary climatic changes, and to some extent, human impact, along an Asian transect running from Eastern Siberia via Mongolia and Tibet to India : Khangai Mountains of Mongolia, Darjeeling