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This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet, and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and Himalayan religions; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a plethora of local and global historical sources, the contributing essays follow the pathways of people from diverse cultural backgrounds and investigate the new forms of knowledge and practice that resulted from their encounters and their shifting power relations. The volume provides not only a nuanced historiography of Kalimpong and its adjacent areas, but also a conceptual model for studying transcultural processes in borderland spaces and their colonial and post-colonial dynamics.

Kalimpong --- Transkulturality --- Himalayas

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"The Monastery Rules discusses the position of monks and monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies. Using the monastic guidelines (bca’ yig) as primary sources, this book examines the impact of Buddhist monastic institutions on Tibetan societies by looking at their monastic policies that deal with organization, economy, justice, and public relations. As this type of literature has not been studied in any detail, this is also an exploration of this genre, its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The monastic guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, but also contain rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Throughout, the textual materials are supplemented with important information gained via oral history methods. This monograph demonstrates how, and to what extent, the Tibetan monastery was guided by Buddhist monastic law, and argues that Buddhist ethics, as they are understood today, played hardly any role. Still, this study argues that the monastic institutions’ influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs."

Buddhism --- Tibetan Region --- Social History --- Monasticism --- Monastic Law --- Vinaya --- Buddhism and Society --- Himalayas --- Sangha --- Discipline

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This open access book discusses the impact of human-induced global climate change on the regional climate and monsoons of the Indian subcontinent, adjoining Indian Ocean and the Himalayas. It documents the regional climate change projections based on the climate models used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and climate change modeling studies using the IITM Earth System Model (ESM) and CORDEX South Asia datasets. The IPCC assessment reports, published every 6–7 years, constitute important reference materials for major policy decisions on climate change, adaptation, and mitigation. While the IPCC assessment reports largely provide a global perspective on climate change, the focus on regional climate change aspects is considerably limited. The effects of climate change over the Indian subcontinent involve complex physical processes on different space and time scales, especially given that the mean climate of this region is generally shaped by the Indian monsoon and the unique high-elevation geographical features such as the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Tibetan Plateau and the adjoining Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, and Bay of Bengal. This book also presents policy relevant information based on robust scientific analysis and assessments of the observed and projected future climate change over the Indian region.

Earth System Sciences --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts --- Climate Change Management and Policy --- Climatology --- Climate Change --- Environmental Sciences --- Indian Subcontinent --- Indian Ocean --- Himalayas --- Monsoon --- Temperature Changes --- Atmospheric Trace Gases --- Droughts and Floods --- Himalayan Cryosphere --- Open Access --- Earth sciences --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- Climate change --- The environment --- Meteorology & climatology

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The book entitled Medicinal Plants and Natural Product Research describes various aspects of ethnopharmacological uses of medicinal plants; extraction, isolation, and identification of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants; various aspects of biological activity such as antioxidant, antimicrobial, anticancer, immunomodulatory activity, etc., as well as characterization of plant secondary metabolites as active substances from medicinal plants.

Chrysanthemum coronarium L. --- aerial parts --- caffeoylquinic acids --- Malian medicinal plants --- Biophytum umbraculum --- Burkea africana --- Lannea velutina --- Terminalia macroptera --- medicinal plants --- traditional knowledge --- Eastern Himalayas --- mountain plants --- ethnobotany --- ethnopharmacology --- bioprospecting --- antibiotic resistance --- antimicrobial --- mechanism of action --- plant metabolite --- saline habitats --- secondary metabolites --- adaptation --- different solvents --- antibiotic resistance --- antimicrobial activity --- cytotoxicity --- ethnobotany --- Eucalyptus --- natural products --- Pseudomonas aeruginosa --- stingless bees --- Tetragonula --- traditional medicine --- basil varieties --- essential oil --- GC-MS --- harvest --- cluster analysis --- antimicrobial --- antioxidants --- medicinal plants --- BHT --- Ficus hirta --- Moraceae --- carboline alkaloids --- sesquiterpenoids --- flavonoids --- antifungal --- phytochemicals --- Nirgundi --- chaste tree --- antibacterial --- free radical --- scavenger --- oxidative stress --- P. alliaceae --- P. niruri --- S. reticulata --- UPLC --- TQ-ESI-MS --- proanthocyanidins --- mass spectrometry --- antioxidant --- cytotoxicity --- Moringa oleifera --- DPPH --- antioxidant activity --- oxidative stress --- sickle cell anemia --- Ophiopogon --- Liriope --- rbcL --- DNA barcoding --- high-resolution melt curve (HRM) analysis --- allergy --- inflammation --- mast cells --- Immulina® --- immunLoges® --- anthracene derivatives --- antimicrobial --- Asphodelus --- ethnomedicine --- skin diseases --- plant-food --- processing --- nutraceuticals --- inflammation --- health --- Arbutus unedo L. --- ?-glucosidase --- catechin --- HPLC --- NMR --- activity --- bioproduct --- Brunfelsia --- Amazonian --- Ecuador --- ethnobotanic --- ayahuasca --- validation --- drug discovery --- scopoletin