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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 610–620.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Patrizia Granziera While the cult of trees is widespread in India, it is only in the south of India and especially in Tamil Nadu that the visitor frequently sees the pipal tree, symbolically considered male, planted together with a neem tree so that the two will grow together, their trunks...
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in The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India's Youngest State
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Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 4. Earlier face featuring veneration of footprints and Bodhi tree, first century BCE, double-sided drum slab, Amaravati, British Museum. Photograph by the author.
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in The Buddhavanam Replica Stupa in Telangana: Sculpting a Buddhist Homeland in India's Youngest State
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 18. The Dalai Lama planting a Bodhi tree sapling, Buddhavanam stupa. Photograph by the author.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 327–341.
Published: 01 August 2024
...Nancy Y. Reynolds Abstract As the Nasserist state built a large hydroelectric dam in the south of Egypt in the early 1960s, Egyptian botanists undertook salvage surveys of the area to be flooded behind the dam, known as historic Nubia. Scientists in these surveys searched for a type of palm tree...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (1): 47–50.
Published: 01 May 1986
... are not a matter of some kind
of "middle class" concern for having- green trees around, but a matter of
MAHARASHTRA) MARCH 12, 1986. Me and death for the toiling ma8988 a matter of whether they will have...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (2): 8–13.
Published: 01 August 1985
... . Chipko Movement: Uttarakhand Women's bid to Save Forest Wealth . New Delhi: People's Action for Peace and Justice. Shepard , Mark , 1981 . “Chipko: North India's Tree Huggers,” Co-EVOLUTION Quarterly , Fall: 62 –70. SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN, Vol. V No. 2, Fall 1985.
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Nonviolent...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 565–583.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to the almost total absence of forest trees and even of fruit trees, and of bushes; leaving the whole territory one continuous stretch of unrelieved plain, neither adorned by the foliage which is its natural ornament, nor stocked with the timber requisite for a thousand purposes in the every-day life...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 79–82.
Published: 01 May 2006
... a mere breath—of the
wind in the trees, each variety of tree having its own music, its own way of conversing. I knew them
all like friends (when we left in the summers for Alexandria I would, the last day, make the round of
the garden saying goodbye to the trees), although none more...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 323–338.
Published: 01 August 2012
... of Rashid and trunk of a tree.” On the same web page, an-
the Missing Body confidently relies on the literary other parent is advised against purchasing any
depiction of a young boy to illustrate the prac- children’s books containing drawings of ani-
tical benefits of being a religiously active...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 61–81.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 4. Earlier face featuring veneration of footprints and Bodhi tree, first century BCE, double-sided drum slab, Amaravati, British Museum. Photograph by the author. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 26–42.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., Precious Teachers , 2 . 26. Trevithick, The Revival of Buddhist Pilgrimage at Bodh Gaya ; Geary, Rebirth of Bodh Gaya . 27. Narain,“Introduction,” xxv. 28. Ober, “From Buddha Bones to Bo Trees,” 1312 . 29. Ober, “From Buddha Bones to Bo Trees,” 1316 . 30. Ober...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 9–15.
Published: 01 August 1999
... of the
mangrove trade. Throughout the colonial era labor, tree yield not big rafter size poles but thin flexible
capital, cargoes, ships, and sailors engaged in the withes called fito. Fit0 are used by the thousand to
mangrove trade ebbed and flowed across the waters build the traditional Swahili mud...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 106–115.
Published: 01 August 1988
... initiate pilot projects
rejected because it was infertile. Most tribals in the Bastar where wastelands are leased to groups of the poor and tree
region are adamantly opposed to the project and are now re- tenure programs for the poor are established. These types of
fusing to leave their homes; some...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (3): 584–602.
Published: 01 December 2022
...]. Jongol means “jungle,” and in the context of my field site the jongol included rivers and creeks interspersed among the tidal maze of sandbanks forested by many varieties of mangrove trees. In both Hindi and Bengali, niyam translates into “rules” or “observances.” In the usage of jongoler niyam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 293–308.
Published: 01 August 2022
...., fig. 3 ). The double-page spread draws readers into an enclosed garden with a well, a pavilion, and a pair of lovers, an idealized space for kingly vilasa, and then shifts their attention, on the left, to a tree against a green hill that teems with birds beneath a bright golden sky. Mango trees, palms...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 96–103.
Published: 01 August 1992
... is that the project’s impact area is al-
(f) Canal irrigation under the SSP will spread water- ready in a state of chronic sheet erosion, indicated by
borne diseases like dysentery, cholera, malaria and exposed tree roots and shrubs growing on mounds.
filariasis. Overgrazing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (3): 293–307.
Published: 01 December 2023
... revealed that these histories and tensions played out in the courtroom. In trying to prove continuous cultivation for the past ten years, the Bethlehem family called on members of their extended family to testify. Member after member took the podium and testified about their relationship to the trees...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (1): 122–145.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of 531. I arrived early with some friends that day and gathered stones from the field. They seemed to be from demolished homes because they were near the cactus and olive trees that were still standing. With the stones I created a symbolic grave of exactly the same dimensions as Naji's grave in London...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and intelligible through sound—
ders between Zion and Arabia converge, star-
the breath “of the wind in the trees, each variety
tling us with their parallelisms in an age of their
of tree having its own music, its own...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 200–203.
Published: 01 August 2015
... Khana. He is roughly seventy years old, and his stories are mostly
about people long gone (puranay banday) — he drops their names as if they will walk up to him any
second. Chacha Nai’ operates a one-seat barber station under the bald fir tree at the northern edge...
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