36 research outputs found
Tracing the journey of Thattai Bhatia community through their culinary identity
Get PDFAbstract The paper acknowledges the remarkable contribution of cookbooks which have always played an instrumental role in researching the history of any community. However, it brings to light the fact that there are several reasons like migration, small size of the community or the nomadic lifestyles when the culinary regime of the community could not be documented. In such cases, the everyday food choices of an ethnic community can lead us to tracing its origin and journey. The paper, thus, argues that in situations where there is paucity of literature documenting the culinary system or foodways, culinary identity of the community can become an effective method to trace the history of the community. The same is proved with the help of a case study of the Thattai Bhatia community. Thattai Bhatia is a small diaspora largely settled in the Persian Gulf, originally migrated from Rajasthan in India and later from Thatta in Sindh, Pakistan. The research reveals the reasons behind their distinct foodways such as abstinence from consuming liquor, meat, garlic and onion in particular, despite their intermingling with different ethnicities due to migration. The paper draws evidences from their regular foodways and traverses backwards to trace their origins, their history and the reasons that have shaped their contemporary food choices. With limited availability of literature, the author had to depend on the information provided during interviews by some of the community members about their food practices. All the findings are substantiated with references from the historical literature available
Multiple positive solutions for a singular elliptic equation with Neumann boundary condition in two dimensions
No full textLet be a bounded domain with boundary. In this paper, we are interested in the problem
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-\Delta u+u = h(x,u) e^{u^2}/|x|^\beta,\quad
u>0 \quad \hbox{in } \Omega, \cr
\frac{\partial u}{\partial\nu}= \lambda \psi u^q \quad
\hbox{on }\partial \Omega,
}
where , , \lambda>0, and is a H\"older continuous function on . Here is a having superlinear growth at infinity. Using variational methods we show that there exists 0<\Lambda <\infty such that above problem admits at least two solutions in if , no solution if \lambda>\Lambda and at least one solution when .Mathematic
Multiple positive solutions for a quasilinear elliptic equation with critical exponential nonlinearity
No full textMultiple positive solutions for a singular elliptic equation with Neumann boundary condition in two dimensions
No full textLet be a bounded domain with boundary. In this paper, we are interested in the problem where , , , and is a H"older continuous function on . Here is a having superlinear growth at infinity. Using variational methods we show that there exists 0<Lambda <infty such that above problem admits at least two solutions in if , no solution if and at least one solution when
A Stage-Structured Prey-Predator Fishery Model In The Presence Of Toxicity With Taxation As A Control Parameter of Harvesting Effort
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On<i>W</i><sup>1,<i>p</i></sup>versus<i>C</i><sup>1</sup>(Ω) local minimizers for functionals with critical growth
No full textOn uniform estimates and global multiplicity of positive solutions for a quasilinear elliptic equation
No full textInternational audienceLet be a bounded domain in with smooth boundary , . The objective of this paper is to study the uniform estimates and existence of multiple positive solutions of the following problem: \left\{\aligned &\left.\aligned -{\rm div}(\phi(|\nabla u|)\nabla u)+\phi(|u|)u&=u^pe^{|u|^\alpha}\\ u&>0\endaligned\right\}\quad\text{in}\ \Omega,\\ &\hskip50pt\phi(|\nabla u|)\frac{\partial u}{\partial n}=\lambda u^q\ \text{on}\ \partial\Omega,\endaligned\right.\tag{$P_\lambda$} where is the outward unit normal, , and satisfies the asymptotic conditions , as and as . The value of in the boundary term satisfies . In case of , we show that admits a second solution for
