Indian subcontinent

But the thing is, laterite isn't naturally found anywhere near Pulika.

It's incredibly common in the Malabar and Konkan coasts, which is the entirely opposite side of the Indian Peninsula.

Right.

Wait, so how in the world did they transport an entire temple's worth of porous stone all the way across the Indian Peninsula in the 16th century?

It was all through the invisible mechanics of the shipping trade.

How so?

When I first saw the signs of the strange weapons, I was inclined to think so, but the remarkable character of the footmarks caused me to reconsider my views.

Some of the inhabitants of the Indian Peninsula are indeed small men, but none could have left such marks as this.

A Hindu proper has long, thin feet.

The sandal-wearing Mohammedan has the great toe well separated from the others, because the thong is commonly passed between them.

Al-Qaeda is still active.

Al-Qaeda in Indian subcontinent has exploded exponentially.

They have enlarged themselves.

They have thousands of fighters.

for a sightseeing.

Whenever they travel to Afghanistan, they come with a purpose and they come with an intent to achieve their objectives and go back to Iran.

As for Al-Qaeda in Indian subcontinent, at the moment they're recruiting a lot of people and using them against Pakistan in support of TTP, but also sending fighters to Sahel.

This year, their transport of fighters from Afghanistan via Iran to Sahel has been hindered dramatically.

It became a a significant merchant company in the region.

He built it up to be an importer and exporter of products from the Indian subcontinent to the Arab world and then vice versa.

And then even within the Arab world, from Bahrain to Basra and then Basra to Dubai and Dubai to Qatar.

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But unfortunately, it ended, I would say, after colonialism ended.

So that didn't really get updated in our region.

It will happen in due course, but it's a reality in places like, primarily in the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, you see it in those places.

So I would say be careful with that.

an example will suffice.

In discussing the distribution of earthquakes, it is noted that the great earthquakes which shook the Mississippi Valley in 1811 to 1812 are among the very few instances of violent and long-continued shocks in a region far from any volcano, and the obsolete Humboldtian notion of connection with West Indian volcanoes is quoted approvingly, while the notable shocks that have devastated both sides of the Indian Peninsula, far from volcanoes, though about the depositing grounds of great rivers, and even our own Charleston earthquake, which, through the studies of Dutton, threw more light on seismism than any other recorded in history, are ignored.

It is chiefly on the dynamic side, or the side of agency, that the old and the new are thus confused.

On the descriptive side, the chapters are generally up to date, while in paleontology, especially in connection with vertebrate fossils, the work stands in the van of modern knowledge.

The greater part of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India, some for Bombay, others for Calcutta by way of Bombay, the nearest route thither.

Now that a railway crosses the Indian Peninsula.

Among the passengers was a number of officials and military officers of various grades, the latter being either attached to the regular British forces or commanding the sepoy troops, and receiving high salaries ever since the central government had assumed the powers of the East India Company.

For the sub-lieutenants get £280, brigadiers £2,400, and generals of divisions £4,000.

This railway does not run in a direct line across India.

The distance between Bombay and Calcutta, as the bird flies, is only from one thousand to eleven hundred miles, but the deflections of the road increase this distance by more than a third.

The general route of the great Indian peninsula railway is as follows.

Leaving Bombay it passes through Salsette, crossing to the continent opposite Tana, goes over the chain of the western Gouts, runs thence northeast as far as Burhampur, skirts the nearly independent territory of Bundelkund, ascends to Allahabad, turns thence easterly, meeting the Ganges at Benares, then departs from the river a little and descending southeastward by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor, has its terminus at Calcutta.

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this is something that we have seen in this particular part, Indian subcontinent, in India as well, as well as in the other parts, that there is a democratic backsliding that doesn't always happen through, uh, outright cancellation of elections like in some countries.

Yes.

But it can also occur through different ways, like through weakening oversight institutions or sh- uh, through, uh, putting some limitations or restricting civil society, or limiting, uh, independence of media, or also undermining the confidence of EMBs themselves.

More and more deep sea services are being switched to a Suez routing.

This is, as I've also said previously, undeniably good news, normalizing the Asia-Europe trade and now also some services, the India subcontinent to Europe trade, India subcontinent to US East Coast trade.

Taking that by Suez again, definitely good news.

The risk here is the Houthis.

On mooted points both or all sides are stated judicially, and this even when one interpretation is old or speculative and the other new or more directly observational, so that many of the chapters smack of classroom rather than field.

an example will suffice in discussing the distribution of earthquakes it is noted that the great earthquakes which shook the mississippi valley in eighteen eleven to eighteen twelve are among the very few instances of violent and long-continued shocks in a region far from any volcano and the obsolete humboldtian notion of connection with west indian volcanoes is quoted approvingly while the notable shocks that have devastated Both sides of the Indian Peninsula, far from volcanoes, though about the depositing grounds of great rivers, and even our own Charleston earthquake, which, through the studies of Dutton, threw more light on seismism than any other recorded in history, are ignored.

It is chiefly on the dynamic side, or the side of agency, that the old and the new are thus confused.

On the descriptive side, the chapters are generally up to date.

Yeah.

And let's start out with How Maritime Trade in the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World, Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century by Nick Collins.

Now, I would have bought this book even if it had been a straight book with that title and on that subject matter.

But as I was flipping through it in the store, Robin, I believe I mentioned to you oh, he's talking about the global flood of 5600 BC, as though it's a thing, as opposed to a crazy idea.