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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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Monsoonal influence on floating marine litter pathways in the Bay of Bengal [PDF]

Ocean Science
Marine litter in the Bay of Bengal has been under-studied despite large quantities of mismanaged waste reportedly entering the ocean from its surrounding countries.
L. C. Harrison, L. C. Harrison, J. A. Graham, J. A. Graham, P. Chowdhury, P. Chowdhury, T. A. M. Silva, T. A. M. Silva, D. P. Hoehn, D. P. Hoehn, A. Samanta, K. Chakraborty, S. Joseph, T. M. B. Nair, T. S. Kumar   +14 more
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HYSPLIT-based demarcation of regions affected by water vapors from the South China Sea and the Bay of Bengal

European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2020
The relationship between atmospheric precipitation and water vapor sources is close, so it is of great significance to carry out the identification of interaction region influenced by different summer monsoons of China.
Chengyuan Hao, Linlin Song, Wei Zhao
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi, David Chilosi   +2 more
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Oscar Mallitte's Andaman photographs (1857-8) [PDF]

, 2009
This article examines the first Andaman Islands photographs, which were taken by the photographer Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte during a Government of India survey whose brief was to find a site for a penal colony for mutineers and rebels sentenced to ...
Anderson, Clare
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Map and Archival Evidence of the Historical Avulsion of the Brahmaputra River

The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract One of the world's great rivers, the Brahmaputra, avulsed—changed course—significantly sometime between the dates of 1765 and 1830. These are the dates of surveys by James Rennell (grey) and Richard Wilcox (black), both under the direction of the East India Company; no other surveys between these dates can refine the estimate of the ...
Keith Richards, Hugh Brammer, Patricia Saunders   +2 more
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Life‐stage and environmental influences on the recruitment of African freshwater eels into the uThukela River, South Africa

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Anguillid eel recruitment into east‐flowing rivers along the east coast of Africa is poorly understood. The few harvest records of anguillid eels from South Africa have highlighted anthropogenically derived environmental stressors as risks for further decline.
Rory McNeill, Matthew J. Burnett, Céline Hanzen, Colleen T. Downs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coastal morphological changes: Assessing long-term ecological transformations across the northern Bay of Bengal

Environmental Challenges, 2020
Major rivers from the Himalayas carry a high volume of sedimentation, and deposit it across the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh. This has caused significant changes in the morphology of the bay, including the development of islands across the bay area ...
Kabir Uddin, Nishanta Khanal, Sunita Chaudhary, Sajana Maharjan, Rajesh Bahadur Thapa   +4 more
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Spatial habitat partitioning enables coexistence of three Gobiidae species in estuarine environments

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines resource partitioning (feeding morphology, diet and habitat partitioning) among three gobiid species, the Knysna sandgoby Psammogobius knysnaensis, the prison goby Caffrogobius gilchristi and the river goby Glossogobius callidus, within an estuarine environment.
Phumza M. Ndaleni, Josie South, Leopold A. J. Nagelkerke, Olaf L. F. Weyl, Phakama Nodo, Nicola C. James   +5 more
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