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6 Indians who helped make London the city it is today
No full textArup K Chatterjee, author of Indians in London, tells us about the Indian people who came to London and changed it — as well as Britain and the world — for good
Tea Tales – India’s ever evolving chai culture
No full textAs we observed International Tea Day on May 21, to peek into the vibrant history of chai and chai tapris in India, Village Square spoke to Arup K Chatterjee, professor of English at OP Jindal Global University. He is the author of widely acclaimed books including, The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways and The Great Indian Railways
Women in the Novels of Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Saratchandra Chatterjee and Rabindranath Tagore
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Replication Data for: Bird’s Decision to Shift the Direction of Migration Path Depends on the Position of Sun as well as Moon: A Directional Statistical Inference
No full textDataset for: Bird’s Decision to Shift the Direction of Migration
Path Depends on the Position of the Sun as well as Moon:
A Directional Statistical Inference
(Author: Prithwish Ghosh, Debashis Chatterjee, Amlan Banerjee
Interview with Arup K Chatterjee
No full textArup K Chatterjee was awarded his doctorate at the Center for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, in 2015. He has taught English, as an Assistant Professor, at colleges in the University of Delhi. In 2014-15 he was a recipient of Charles Wallace fellowship to the United Kingdom. He is the founding-chief-editor of Coldnoon: International Journal of TravelWriting & Travelling Cultures <http://www.coldnoon.com/>. He is the author of The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways (Bloomsbury, 2017). He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, O.P. Jindal Global University.</jats:p
Cumellana Petrescu, Chatterjee & Schizas, 2012, gen. nov.
No full textCumellana gen. nov. Diagnosis. Female. Carapace without antennal notch. Antenna 1 long, second article of peduncle without tubercle. Labium with a forked terminal seta. Maxilliped 1 with large dactylus. Maxilliped 3 with long propodus, twice as long as carpus. Pereopod 1 dactylus with short terminal setae. Pereopod 2 dactylus with three terminal short setae, middle one highly robust. Male unknown. Etymology. The name is a combination between the generic name Cumella and the Christian name of the daughter of first author, Ana. Type species. Cumellana caribbica sp. nov. Remarks. The new genus could be distinguished from other genera of the family Nannastacidae by having long antennules and pereopod 2 with short terminal setae, equal in length.Published as part of Petrescu, Iorgu, Chatterjee, Tapas & Schizas, Nikolaos V., 2012, New genus and new species of Cumacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the mesophotic coral ecosystem of SW Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, pp. 55-61 in Zootaxa 3476 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21129
Copidognathus gurui Chatterjee & Pešić 2014, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Copidognathus gurui</i> sp. nov. <p>(Figs. 1­ 4)</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype (female), paratype (female), and additional materials ­ two females used for SEM, Matemwe (05 o 52'S, 39 o 21'E) the east coast of Unguja, Zanzibar, Tanzania in coral rubble of <i>Fungia</i> (Anthozoa, Scleractinia), August 17 th 2004, coll. M Raes & H Gheerardyn.</p> <p> <b>Description</b></p> <p> Female. Idiosoma 295­ 317 (holotype: 317) µm long. AD 104­ 111 (holotype: 106) µm long. Anterior half of AD joining with dorsal part of AE. AD with frontal process and three areolae. Anterior areola oblong; paired crescent shaped middle areolae with 18­ 20 rosette pores each. Paired ds 1 anterior to middle areolae on AD. Pair of gland pores lie near anterolateral margin of AD anterior to ds 1. Area between areolae comperises large sized panels (panels not subdivided). Posterior margin of AD with a ridge containing a row of panels, each panel subdivided comprising four to eight small shallow subpanels. OC 82­ 84 µm long, 51­ 56 µm width, length to width ratio about 1.6, each with two corneae, areolae with rosette pores medial to corneae and posterolateral to posterior cornea; gland pore lateral to posterior cornea adjacent to lateral margin of OC; pore canaliculus present adjacent to lateral margin of OC. Setae ds 2 located at anteromedial corner of OC. PD 173 – 193 (holotype: 193) µm long. PD with two middle and two lateral costae. Each middle costae about 16 µm wide: with one to two rosette pores (each rosette pore with prominent ostium and canaliculi in and around it) and with panels lateral to it (each panel subdivided comprising subpanels) (Figs. 1D, 3E, F). Anterior part of middle costae and lateral costae joined together with panels (each panel with subpanels). Area between two middle costae three to six panels wide, panels not subdivided (devoid of subpanels). Setae ds 3 – ds 5 on PD. Gland pores lateral to middle costae on posterior part of PD. AE with three pairs of ventral setae and a pair of epimeral pores. Paired ventrolateral areolae between insertion of legs I and II, paired marginal areolae posterior to insertion of leg II. PE with three ventral and one dorsal seta. GA 150­ 153 (holotype: 151) µm long, GO 50­ 59 (holotype: 52) µm long. Distance between anterior end of GO and that of GA subequal to GO length. Paragenital areolae well developed. Three pairs of PGS present. In holotype anterior PGS 22 µm anterior to anterior end of GO; middle pair of PGS posterior to anterior margin of GO, 32 µm apart from lateral margin of GA; third pair near posterior side of GO. Pair of SGS located at the anterior end of genital sclerites.</p> <p> Gnathosoma 83 ­ 93 µm long. Palp consisting of four segments. Tip of rostrum just passing distal end of P 3. P 1 and P 3 devoid of any seta. P 2 with one dorsal seta distally. P 4 with three long proximal seta and one minute distal seta. Proto and deutorostral seta situated at the tip of rostrum; tritorostral setae (long maxillary setae of rostrum) located at 0.35 of rostrum length from its tip. Gnathosomal base with a pair of setae (basirostral setae). Rostral sulcus long extends posteriorly just beyond the tritorostral seta.</p> <p>Chaetotaxy of legs: trochanters I­IV, 1­ 1­ 1­ 0; basifemora I­IV, 2­ 2­ 2­ 2; telofemora I­IV, 5­ 5­ 3­ 3; genua I­IV, 4­ 4­ 3­ 3; tibiae I­IV, 7­ 7­ 5­ 5; tarsi I­IV (PAS excluded), 7­ 4­ 4­ 3. Telofemora III­IV with two dorsal setae and one ventral seta. Telofemur I swollen with well developed trilobed ventrolateral lamella. Tibia I with three ventral setae (one long, pointed ventral seta and two thick, smaller ventromedial setae). Tibia II with one long, pointed ventral seta and two thick, pectinate ventromedial setae. Tibia III with one thick, pectinate ventromedial seta. All setae of tibia IV smooth. Tibia I with two denticulate proximoventral processes (lamella) (Fig. 1E). Tibia II with a feebly developed (not clear properly) proximoventral process. Tarsus I with three dorsal setae, one solenidion, three ventral setae and two eupathidial doublet PAS. Tarsus II with three dorsal setae, one solenidion; PAS obscured by specimen compression. Tarsus III with four dorsal setae (distance between two basidorsal setae a little less than height of the segment) and two PAS. Tarsus IV with three dorsal setae and two PAS. All legs with two lateral claws and one bidentate median claw. Lateral claws with accessory process dorsally. Lateral claws of tarsi II­IV with ventral pecten.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The species is dedicated in honor of Prof. B. C. Guru, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, thesis advisor (in D. Sc.) of first author (TC).</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> <i>Copidognathus gurui</i> sp. nov. is characterized by two crescent shaped middle areolae on anterior dorsal plate, ds 2 on anteromedian corner of OC, a swollen telofemur I with a trilobed ventrolateral lamella, tibia I with two denticulate proximoventral processes, tarsi III and IV with 4:3 dorsal setae, telofemora III and IV each with one ventral seta.</p> <p> Present new species has some similarity with <i>C. punctatissimus</i> (Gimbel, 1919), <i>C. dentatus</i> Viets, 1940, <i>C. biscayneus</i> Newell, 1947, <i>C. dentipes</i> Bartsch, 1989, <i>C. eblingi</i> Chatterjee, 1991, <i>C. jejuensis</i> Chatterjee & Chang, 2004 and <i>C. mumbaiensis</i> Chatterjee & Chang, 2004. <i>C. tupinamborum</i> Pepato & Tiago, 2005 (Gimbel 1919; Newell 1947; Bartsch 1989; Chatterjee 1991; Chatterjee and Annapurna 2003, Chatterjee and Chang 2004a, b, 2006; Pepato and Tiago 2005).</p> <p> <i>C. punctatissimus</i> has ds 2 located on anteromedial corner of OC as in <i>C. gurui</i> sp. nov. while in all of the other aforementioned species ds 2 are located in the membranous cuticular area between AD and OC. <i>Copidognathus gurui</i> sp. nov. differs from <i>C. punctatissimus</i> and all other species in having a well developed trilobed ventrolateral lamella on telofemur I.</p> <p> <i>Copidognathus mumbaiensis</i> is characterised by the presence of a serrated lamella ventrolaterally on telofemur I instead of trilobed lamella.</p>Published as part of <i>Chatterjee, Tapas & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, A new species of the genusCopidognathus (Acari, Halacaridae) from Zanzibar, Tanzania, pp. 169-175 in Ecologica Montenegrina 1 (3)</i> on pages 170-17
Monocystis pheretimi Bhatia & Chatterjee 1925
No full text20) Monocystis pheretimi Bhatia &Chatterjee, 1925 Infested organ. Seminal vesicles, Coelom Type host. Pheretima posthuma Type locality. India Description. Variable, spherical, ovoidal, ellipsoidal or dumb bell shaped, measures up to 50 − 200 µm. Nucleus spherical or ovoidal. Gametocyst spherical and measures 80 µm. Oocyst not stated.Published as part of Sarkar, Sutapa & Bandyopadhyay, Probir K., 2013, A checklist of the species under the genus Monocystis Von Stein, 1848 (Apicomplexa: Sporozoa: Monocystidae) described from oligochaete hosts, pp. 381-388 in Zootaxa 3710 (4) on page 385, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/616424
BR Ambedkar in London: A thesis completed, a treaty concluded, a ‘bible’ of India promised
No full textAn excerpt from ‘Indians in London: From the Birth of the East Indian Company to Independent India’, by Arup K Chatterjee
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