#indian geography

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What my mornings look like these days

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Northern Bald Ibis returns from near extinction

Context: The groundbreaking efforts of a conservation and research group based in Austria have led to a remarkable resurgence of the Northern Bald Ibis in Central Europe. Since initiating their project in 2002, the team has successfully reintroduced this continentally extinct migratory bird species, increasing their numbers from zero to nearly 300. Major Highlights: A key challenge in…

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Seeding Change: Exploring Sustainability at the World Castor Forum

India has inaugurated the World Castor Sustainability Forum (WCSF) with the objective of creating a traceable supply chain for castor oil, with a focus on enhancing economic, social, and environmental outcomes.

The World Castor Sustainability Forum (WCSF) endeavors to bolster economic self-sufficiency and sustainability within the global castor industry. Through its initiatives, the WCSF strives to establish a sustainable and traceable supply chain for castor products, while concurrently enhancing economic, social, and environmental performance.

In conclusion, the launch of the WCSF represents a pivotal step towards fostering sustainability and resilience within the castor industry on a global scale. By prioritizing economic, social, and environmental considerations, the forum aims to drive positive change and promote the long-term viability of castor cultivation and production worldwide.

Read More- World Castor Sustainability Forum

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Geography Of India | Indian Geography

Geography Of India | Indian Geography » Longitude & Latitudinal Geography Of India | Indian Geography Is A Country In The Continent Of Asia , Which Is Surrounded By Seas On Three Sides At The Top Of The Indian Ocean In The Southern Part Of Asia. The Whole Of India Falls In The Northern Hemisphere. The Latitudinal Extension Of India Is From 8°4′ North Latitude To 37°6 North Latitude.  The…

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What is Western Ghats of India? explained by K. Siddhartha Sir

Indian Geography is the most important section in Geography PT and for any other competitive exam. A proper understanding helps you to ease your memorization, and also get you interested in the section, eases your preparation with a complete narration, and rare but easy to remember illustrations for greater retentivity.

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Endangered Indian sandalwood. British war to control the forests. Tallying every single tree in the kingdom. European companies claim the ecosystem. Spices and fragrances. Failure of the plantation. Until the twentieth century, the Empire couldn't figure out how to cultivate sandalwood because they didn't understand that the plant is actually a partial root parasite. French perfumes and the creation of "the Sandalwood City".

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Selling at about $147,000 per metric ton, the aromatic heartwood of Indian sandalwood (S. album) is arguably [among] the most expensive wood in the world. Globally, 90 per cent of the world’s S. album comes from India [...]. And within India, around 70 per cent of S. album comes from the state of Karnataka [...] [and] the erstwhile Kingdom of Mysore. [...] [T]he species came to the brink of extinction. [...] [O]verexploitation led to the sandal tree's critical endangerment in 1974. [...]

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Francis Buchanan’s 1807 A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara and Malabar is one of the few European sources to offer insight into pre-colonial forest utilisation in the region. [...] Buchanan records [...] [the] tradition of only harvesting sandalwood once every dozen years may have been an effective local pre-colonial conservation measure. [...] Starting in 1786, Tipu Sultan [ruler of Mysore] stopped trading pepper, sandalwood and cardamom with the British. As a result, trade prospects for the company [East India Company] were looking so bleak that by November 1788, Lord Cornwallis suggested abandoning Tellicherry on the Malabar Coast and reducing Bombay’s status from a presidency to a factory. [...] One way to understand these wars is [...] [that] [t]hey were about economic conquest as much as any other kind of expansion, and sandalwood was one of Mysore’s most prized commodities. In 1799, at the Battle of Srirangapatna, Tipu Sultan was defeated. The kingdom of Mysore became a princely state within British India [...]. [T]he East India Company also immediately started paying the [new rulers] for the right to trade sandalwood.

British control over South Asia’s natural resources was reaching its peak and a sophisticated new imperial forest administration was being developed that sought to solidify state control of the sandalwood trade. In 1864, the extraction and disposal of sandalwood came under the jurisdiction of the Forest Department. [...] Colonial anxiety to maximise profits from sandalwood meant that a government agency was established specifically to oversee the sandalwood trade [...] and so began the government sandalwood depot or koti system. [...]

From the 1860s the [British] government briefly experimented with a survey tallying every sandal tree standing in Mysore [...].

Instead, an intricate system of classification was developed in an effort to maximise profits. By 1898, an 18-tiered sandalwood classification system was instituted, up from a 10-tier system a decade earlier; it seems this led to much confusion and was eventually reduced back to 12 tiers [...].

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Meanwhile, private European companies also made significant inroads into Mysore territory at this time. By convincing the government to classify forests as ‘wastelands’, and arguing that Europeans would improves these tracts from their ‘semi-savage state’, starting in the 1860s vast areas were taken from local inhabitants and converted into private plantations for the ‘production of cardamom, pepper, coffee and sandalwood’.

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Yet attempts to cultivate sandalwood on both forest department and privately owned plantations proved to be a dismal failure. There were [...] major problems facing sandalwood supply in the period before the twentieth century besides overexploitation and European monopoly. [...] Before the first quarter of the twentieth century European foresters simply could not figure out how to grow sandalwood trees effectively.

The main reason for this is that sandal is what is now known as a semi-parasite or root parasite; besides a main taproot that absorbs nutrients from the earth, the sandal tree grows parasitical roots (or haustoria) that derive sustenance from neighbouring brush and trees. [...] Dietrich Brandis, the man often regaled as the father of Indian forestry, reported being unaware of the [sole significant English-language scientific paper on sandalwood root parasitism] when he worked at Kew Gardens in London on South Asian ‘forest flora’ in 1872–73. Thus it was not until 1902 that the issue started to receive attention in the scientific community, when C.A. Barber, a government botanist in Madras [...] himself pointed out, 'no one seems to be at all sure whether the sandalwood is or is not a true parasite'.

Well into the early decades of twentieth century, silviculture of sandal proved a complete failure. The problem was the typical monoculture approach of tree farming in which all other species were removed and so the tree could not survive. [...]

The long wait time until maturity of the tree must also be considered. Only sandal heartwood and roots develop fragrance, and trees only begin developing fragrance in significant quantities after about thirty years. Not only did traders, who were typically just sailing through, not have the botanical know-how to replant the tree, but they almost certainly would not be there to see a return on their investments if they did. [...]

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The main problem facing the sustainable harvest and continued survival of sandalwood in India [...] came from the advent of the sandalwood oil industry at the beginning of the twentieth century. During World War I, vast amounts of sandal were stockpiled in Mysore because perfumeries in France had stopped production and it had become illegal to export to German perfumeries. In 1915, a Government Sandalwood Oil Factory was built in Mysore. In 1917, it began distilling. [...] [S]andalwood production now ramped up immensely. It was at this time that Mysore came to be known as ‘the Sandalwood City’.

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Text above by: Ezra Rashkow. "Perfumed the axe that laid it low: The endangerment of sandalwood in southern India." Indian Economic and Social History Review 51, no. 1, pages 41-70. March 2014. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Italicized first paragraph/heading in this post added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

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"I wish I was born in ancient India"

I wish I was born in Insular India

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If you don't mind me asking (you can totally ignore this message and I'll get the idea no worries), which state are you from?

HEY DON'T FEEL EMBARRASSED?? Every single time I open my mouth should ensure that you all never feel embarrassed about anything ever because well. Look at me. I'm a fucking fool and I'm vibing about it.

*clears throat and inhales deeply* so well my dad is Tamil but half of his family is actually from Maharashtra but they're also from Tamil Nadu but the other half is from Karnataka and my mum is Telugu but her family is actually from Tamil Nadu but also from Telangana but also I've lived in Punjab for a few years as a toddler but also then I moved back south but also I think there are family in Andhra I never did fully figure out the separation between Andhra and Telangana and anyway I guess the point is moot because aside from barely functioning at Hindi and Kannada and understanding at most Tamil and Telugu I think it's safe to say that given the opportunity every one of those states would disown me on sight so--

*finishes and breathes again* --so I say I'm Indian but bad at it because I've never been outside here but my first language is English and at this point I think every other country in the world is prepared to disown me too (I am still so very sorry for thinking you were extinct, Romanian maggots, and for thinking you were fictional, Albanian maggots, and well generally everyone).

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take this quiz which tells how many indian states you can name in 7 mins.

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Tripura dam didn’t cause Bangladesh floods: India

Context: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Thursday denied that floods in eastern districts of Bangladesh were caused due to the opening of the Dumbur dam in Tripura. Key facts related to the Dumbur dam: The Dumbnur dam is built upon the Gumti river which flows through India and Bangladesh. There is a Hydel Project near the lake from where River Gomati originates and this is called…

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why am i seeing asian people list indian as a non asian ethnicity

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Bruh stop calling yourself an Desi. India shares his borders with South Africa making it an afrikkaan nation. Desi are Paki, Afgan, napel, bengaldesh.

There's just so many levels of wrong in this my head hurts pls it's 6:30 (but i love roasting idiotic ppl so here we go)

India is she/her not he/him 🤣

Afrikkaan-? Wot

An Desi-? Last time I checked we don't use AN before D.

Sure Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh are Desi countries. And so is India. :)

I don't recall seeing India sharing it's border with the entire continent of Africa, let alone South Africa sjejwkkas.

Pls check a map, and if you don't have it or you're a broke kid who never got to attend school then lemme tell you. India is surrounded by it's neighbouring Asian countries mostly in the North and East. With Srilanka in the South. India has land on one side and two seas on either side, and the fucking Indian Ocean on the fourth side. Which means, it's no way NEAR Africa!

And if map isn't enough to educate your peanut brain, then just search SAARC on Google. Which is South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. India is a member of it. ✌

(I thank my parents everyday for making me study geography)

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21.04.2024

I am having typical conflicts of opinion relating to matters of my life with my family. It feels like I am going through typical teenage phase where teenagers have fights and misunderstandings with their parents and elder siblings. Sometimes it feels like they don't trust me like I do on them. I only have one expectation from them that they trust me but no they don't.. they think that I am stupid and some sort of fool who doesn't know what's right or wrong. I wish they try a bit to understand me and trust me. Sometimes it feel suffocating to even stay at home. I wish that I could just leave everything and go for a ride on an isolated highway at midnight. Is it too much to ask for their trust and faith in me that I won't do anything wrong. I just wish that they atleast try to get me.

Things I did:

Indian Geography: Textbook reading

Modern history: writing notes and assignments

Song of the day: is it too much to ask? By Nial Horan

Good luck to me for tmr.