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A Chronicle of Disrupted Flows—Bordering of the Amphibious Bengal Delta

Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract The Sundarbans is often framed as a climate crisis hotspot, a perspective that risks naturalising a historically produced condition. This paper argues that present vulnerabilities are rooted in colonial interventions that disrupted a dynamic, amphibious landscape shaped by seasonal floods, tides and human–nonhuman interdependencies ...
Madhurima Majumder, Ingrid Boas, Annet Pauwelussen, Ruben Dahm   +3 more
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Gender Non‐Conformity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Communities Across Times and Theoretical Frameworks

Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines gender diversity in Islamicate societies across historical and contemporary contexts, emphasizing the interplay between social norms, religious frameworks, and structural power. It addresses the methodological challenge of avoiding anachronistic applications of modern categories such as “gender” and “sexuality” to Muslim ...
Vanja Hamzić
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Role of Women in the Mughal Empire

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2023
Abstract: The following paper’s major objective is to explore the Mughal harem's dynamism and to examine the diverse accomplishments and achievements of the women who were there with the focus also kept on the common women as well wherever needed. The following paper tries to discuss the historical achievements and lows that have occurred in the life ...
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 377-398, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Beyond National Currency: The Plurality of Early Modern Money

History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Diversity in money leaps at historians of early modern societies, whether they analyse account books, legal documents, travelogues and diaries, or try to make sense of a sum casually mentioned in a source from the period. The plurality of money objects contrasts with the homogeneous, singular currencies imposed by nation‐states in the 19th and
Sebastian Felten
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How Do Unexpected Networks Help Female Entrepreneurs in the Global South Survive in Adverse Contexts? A Case Study of Bangladesh

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 132-163, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of various unexpected networks in supporting the survival of female‐owned SMEs in the Global South. The research focuses upon Bangladesh, which is a context marked by institutional adversity and postcolonial legacies.
Sharmin Nahar, Mohammed Shamsul Karim, Vania Sena   +2 more
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English Uses and Reframings of Indigenous Knowledge in Early Modern Maps of Trade and Empire

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This article focuses on the indigenous sources of geographical knowledge which seventeenth-century British mapmakers drew on to design maps of distant lands, especially where the Virginia Company of London and the East India Company operated.
Louise McCarthy
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DARUL ULUM DEOBAND: PRESERVING RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL INTEGRITY OF SOUTH ASIAN MUSLIMS THROUGH STRUCTURAL AND STRATEGIC INNOVATIONS

Hamdard Islamicus, 2022
The end of Mughal Empire in the wake of War of Independence 1857 left the Muslim community of South Asia political orphans; desperately facing religious and cultural assaults, political as well as economic victimization and marginalization under British
DR. MUHAMMAD NAVEED AKHTAR
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Ḥaji Zayn-i Aṭṭār’s Ikhtiyārāt-i badī‘ī and Its Contribution to the Ottoman Pharmacopeia Literature

Belleten
This study examines Ḥaji Zayn-i Aṭṭār’s Ikhtiyārāt-i badī‘ī, one of the leading manuscripts of 14th-century Persian pharmacopeial literature, tracing its journey in the Ottoman Empire and evaluating its impact.
Osman Süreyya Kocabaş
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Study of the construction techniques, materials and architectural prospectives of ancient monumental structures in Allahabad City, India [PDF]

MATEC Web of Conferences
This research examines the construction methodologies, materials, and architectural principles employed in creating ancient monumental structures in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), India.
Kumar Ambareesh, Pallav Kumar
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