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Culinary culture in colonial India : a cosmopolitan platter and the middle class
\"Discusses the cuisine to understand the construction of colonial middle-class in Bengal\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Eating ‘Modernity’: Changing dietary practices in colonial Bengal
Colonial transformation of the relations of production contextualized the cultural articulation of a new set of values, prejudices, and tastes for the Bengali Hindu middle class. These cultural values, together with the political and economic conditions of colonialism, formed the habitus of this class. This paper tries to understand this self-fashioning by the middle class through their construction of a ‘Bengali’ cuisine. A distinct enthusiasm for new gastronomic possibilities defined this cuisine, and yet, at the same time, it possessed important elements of continuity from pre-colonial times, evidenced especially in the reinstitution of caste-based norms of gastronomy. The resultant cuisine was cosmopolitan yet still Bengali.
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New Global Imperialism
This chapter presents long reference to James Mill, which provides an entry point to the history of imperialism and its connections with gender. It looks at imperialism itself, which developed in specific stages from the middle of the eighteen century to the beginning of the First World War. When discussing modern imperialism, most attention goes to the empires of Western European nations, but the Ottomans also governed a large empire. The issue of what was termed the “woman question” –discussion and debate about the nature and role of women – which began to gain currency from late eighteenth century, cannot be separated from the larger politics of Europe's overseas expansion and imperial overtures. The idea of difference in terms of race and gender was deeply embedded in the policies implemented by the imperialists. From the nineteenth century onward, race intertwined with gender to inform imperial policies about the citizenship of the offspring of mixed‐race marriages.
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The Creative Zeal of the Rays
[...]Sengoopta is more interested in narrating the story of Ray's predecessors and less in writing a biography of Ray in this book. [...]Sengoopta further states that the story of the Ray family is integrally connected to the reformism of Dwarakanath Ganguli. [...]some of the instances that Sengoopta provides endorse the notion of derivative modernity.
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Experimental Study of Size-Selective Phytoplankton Grazing by a Filter-Feeding Cichlid and the Cichlid's Effects on Plankton Community Structure
In laboratory experiments, feeding rates of small (40-61-mm standard length, SL) and large (98-143-mm SL) Galilee Saint Peter's fish (Tilapia galilaea) on Phytoplankton and zooplankton increased as a function of particle size, leveling off when particle size exceeded 6-10 μ m. Fish had high feeding rates on zooplankton, the large dinoflagellates Peridinium cinctum and Peridinium elpatiewsky, and a few nanoplankton, but most species of nanoplankton were consumed at lower rates. To examine community-level effects of the fish, we conducted two 7-d outdoor tank experiments with six fish-density treatments ranging from 0 to 400 g m-3. Crustaceans, rotifers, and Peridinium spp. declined as functions of fish density, but nanoplankton abundance was highest at intermediate fish densities. Suppression of Peridinium spp. by fish resulted in a reduction of total chlorophyll and gross primary production.
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Experimental study of size‐selective phytoplankton grazing by a filter‐feeding cichlid and the cichlid's effects on plankton community structure1
In laboratory experiments, feeding rates of small (40–61‐mm standard length, SL) and large (98–143‐mm SL) Galilee Saint Peter’s fish (Tilapia galilaea) on phytoplankton and zooplankton increased as a function of particle size, leveling off when particle size exceeded 6–10 µm. Fish had high feeding rates on zooplankton, the large dinoflagellates Peridinium cinctum and Peridinium elpatiewsky, and a few nanoplankton, but most species of nanoplankton were consumed at lower rates. To examine community‐level effects of the fish, we conducted two 7‐d outdoor tank experiments with six fish‐density treatments ranging from 0 to 400 g m−3. Crustaceans, rotifers, and Peridinium spp. declined as functions of fish density, but nanoplankton abundance was highest at intermediate fish densities. Suppression of Peridinium spp. by fish resulted in a reduction of total chlorophyll and gross primary production.
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Experimental study of size-selective phytoplankton grazing by a filter-feeding cichlid and the cichlid's effects on plankton community structure 1
In laboratory experiments, feeding rates of small (40-61-mm standard length, SL) and large (98-143-mm SL) Galilee Saint Peter's fish (Tilapia galilaea) on phytoplankton and zooplankton increased as a function of particle size, leveling off when particle size exceeded 6-10 mu m. Fish had high feeding rates on zooplankton, the large dinoflagellates Peridinium cinctum and Peridinium elpatiewsky, and a few nanoplankton, but most species of nanoplankton were consumed at lower rates. To examine community-level effects of the fish, we conducted two 7-d outdoor tank experiments with six fish-density treatments ranging from 0 to 400 g m super(-3). Crustaceans, rotifers, and Peridinium spp. declined as functions of fish density, but nanoplankton abundance was highest at intermediate fish densities. Suppression of Peridinium spp. by fish resulted in a reduction of total chlorophyll and gross primary production.
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