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E.M. Forster's A Passage to India ends with a poignant exchange between Aziz, a young Muslim doctor, and Fielding, a Briton sympathetic to Indians. Though Aziz is acquitted of the false charge of molesting a British woman, he is deeply wounded by the experience and wants nothing to do with the colonial race. Fielding, an old friend, seeks him out and asks why they cannot be friends again.
But the horses didn't want it--they swerved apart; the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temples, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they issued from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices. "No, not yet," and the sky said, "No, not there."
This is how the novel ended, written in 1924 against the backdrop of the first mass nationalist upsurge against British rule. Gandhi, who led the movement, was a product of the Indian encounter with Western culture. He trained as a barrister in London and spent more than two decades in South Africa, developing his doctrine of nonviolent struggle in campaigning for Indian rights. Western ideas deeply influenced his political philosophy, and he maintained lifelong friendships with a number of Europeans. But anticolonialism formed the bedrock of his relationship with the West. Despite good intentions, there could be no friendship in the abstract. You could not simply wish away empire when it formed the setting in which the members of colonizing and colonized cultures met.
Historians of empire have always understood this chasm in human relationships created by the fact of one culture ruling over another. But a reappraisal of this truth has been under way for some time now at the hands of revisionist historians of the British Empire. These historians dislike Edward Said and the postcolonial critics who cite French theory and argue that the British Empire established lasting Orient/Occident and East/West oppositions in politics and knowledge. Uncomfortable with the political passion and theoretical language of these critics, the revisionists counsel us (in mainly British accents, with some American intonations) to lower the anti-imperial temperature and write old-fashioned narrative history. They contend that empire is the oldest and one of the most widely practiced forms of governance.
The Romans did it, the Spaniards did it, the Russians did it, the Chinese did it, even the newly independent nations have done it. Everybody oppressed everyone else. Pax Britannica may have ruled over one-fifth of humanity, but the conquerors, soldiers, administrators and scholars were also human. Why bring in such abstractions as Orientalism and colonialism? Underneath it all, the story of the British Empire is a narrative of individuals caught up in human encounters between cultures.
True, the revisionist argument continues, Britons went to distant lands to profit and conquer. But vastly outnumbered by the local population and pitted against powerful adversaries, they were deeply conscious of their vulnerability. This was particularly true in the eighteenth century, when the British were all too aware of the power and grandeur of the Ottomans and the Mughals. The Barbary corsairs and Algerian slave owners harassed them in the Mediterranean, the Indian tribes challenged them in North America and the French engaged them in imperial wars. Then, their American territories fell. On the Indian subcontinent, the Mughal Empire was reduced to a shell, but successor states posed a serious challenge to the East India Company's military position. Embattled, the British were forced to depend on indigenous allies and could not afford to treat native populations and cultures as inferior. Forcibly or willingly, many crossed cultural borders. They shed European trousers for native pajamas, grew Hindu mustaches and Muslim beards, married local women and kept concubines, and collected indigenous texts and artifacts. A human story of interest and immersion in other cultures, languages and artifacts--not mastery--underpinned British imperial expansion.
Stroke by stroke, this revisionist historiography seeks to redraw the portrait of the British Empire. This picture has received prominent attention in British publications, including leftist ones, eager to mark distance from their imperial past while trying to rescue some cultural value from it for the present. In this version of the story, set against the current spectacle of an arrogant and dangerous American imperialism, we are told the British Empire developed willy-nilly as a collection of territories and cultures; it was never the project that nineteenth-century imperialists claimed and that present-day postcolonial critics allege. The conquerors, particularly in the eighteenth century, are seen not as agents of colonial oppression and exploitation but as hapless imperialists caught in a hostile environment; weak and embattled, they eagerly embraced indigenous allies and cultures.
This revisionist view of the British Empire underpins William Dalrymple's deeply researched and beautifully written The Last Mughal. The subject of his study is the 1857 Uprising against British rule in India. It was an event that, according to Dalrymple, marked the end of the eighteenth century's "relatively easy relationship of Indian and Briton" and the onset of "hatreds and racism" that became so characteristic of the nineteenth-century Raj. "The Uprising, it is clear, was the result of that change, not its cause."
When the Uprising broke out, Company rule in India was already a century old. During this time, the Company had acquired effective military and political control over nearly the entire subcontinent. The imperial Mughals, a dynasty that traced its lineage back to Timur (Tamerlane) and had ruled India since 1526, still enjoyed nominal authority. The aging Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, lived in Delhi. Clutching hollow emblems of authority, Zafar presided over the royal household and harem. Real power lay with the Company, which used it to build a modern empire. The Company annexed territories, established courts, laid telegraph and railway lines, collected taxes and instituted land settlements that caused widespread discontent. The developing ideology of liberal imperialism, buttressed by evangelical Christianity, left little room for existing cultures and traditions. The old nobility and landholders were summarily cast aside, and Thomas Macaulay declared that all the accumulated products of Oriental knowledge were worth a single shelf of a Western library.
The simmering discontent against British rule boiled over with the "greased cartridge" controversy. At the end of 1856, the Company army, which consisted of both Hindu and Muslim sepoys (recruits) commanded by British officers, introduced the new Enfield rifle. Loading the rifle required biting open the cartridge, which was greased to ease pushing the ball down the barrel. Initially, the grease was made of cow and pig fat, defiling to both Hindus and Muslims. This was quickly changed to beeswax and linseed oil, but the damage was done. A rumor spread that the British were deliberately using pig and cow fat to violate the sepoys' religions.
The Uprising began on May 10, 1857, with a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the military barracks of Meerut. The mutineers killed their British officers and marched thirty miles south to Delhi, where they were joined by the sepoys in the regiments stationed in the city. Together, they "restored" Zafar as their emperor. The spirit of rebellion spread to other garrisons in North India and turned from a limited mutiny into a widespread revolt of peasants, artisans, laborers, religious leaders and the old gentry. For more than a year, the fire of the Uprising raged. European officers, women and children were massacred. British authority crumbled in large parts of North India until it was restored with brute force in the summer of 1858. Zafar's glory ended even earlier. Within a few months, the rebel position in Delhi fell. The emperor was tried and convicted for hatching an international Muslim conspiracy against his English benefactors, and exiled to Burma. The charge was legally and factually absurd. Since Zafar had never renounced sovereignty over the Company, he could not possibly be guilty of treason. In fact, Dalrymple explains, "from a legal point of view, a good case could be made that it was the East India Company which was the real rebel, guilty of revolt against a feudal superior to whom it had sworn allegiance for nearly a century." Equally groundless was the allegation that Zafar was behind an international Muslim conspiracy stretching from Constantinople to Delhi. "The Uprising in fact showed every sign of being initiated by upper-caste Hindu sepoys reacting against specifically military grievances perceived as a threat to their faith and dharma; it then spread rapidly through the country, attracting a fractured and diffuse collection of other groups alienated by aggressively insensitive and brutal British policies." The British "bigoted and Islamophobic argument" reduced the complexity of the rebellion to an oversimplified and fictional picture of a "global Muslim conspiracy with an appealingly visible and captive hate figure at its centre." Back in England, the Uprising and the aftermath of British bloodlust shocked the Parliament into assuming direct rule over India. Company rule was abolished, and Queen Victoria became the Empress of India.
Understandably, the Uprising aroused heated emotions. The British officials and civilians caught up in it captured the experience in their writings. Several fictional and historical accounts were published, including Flora Annie Steel's novel On the Face of Waters (1896) and John Kaye's three-volume History of the Sepoy War in India (1877). In the British imperial imagination the Mutiny was remembered as the moment when Indians bared their barbarian souls. In Indian nationalist mythology, it was the first war of independence. Outside these stock images and myths, there exists a substantial body of sophisticated and complex historical work on the Uprising, notably the writings of Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Gautam Bhadra and Eric Stokes. But historians have largely ignored Delhi's experience of the cataclysm, preferring to focus on areas where the revolt was more protracted.
Dalrymple, a British travel writer and historian who divides his time between London and Delhi, sets out to correct this neglect. Writing with obvious affection for Delhi and appreciation for Mughal culture, he shows that the experience of the rebellion in the city was quite distinct. It was the seat of the imperial Mughals and the center of high Indo-Muslim culture. Even if Zafar no longer exercised real power, the emperor, as the rebel proclamation demonstrated, still exercised tremendous symbolic significance. From his palace in Delhi's Red Fort, Zafar wrote accomplished poetry and presided over a refined court milieu. Living under his patronage was Ghalib, possibly the greatest poet ever in the Urdu language, and one who went on to record his experiences of the Uprising. Using sources in Persian and Urdu along with voluminous British papers, Dalrymple has written a riveting and poignant account of the events of 1857 in Delhi.
When the mutineers descended on Delhi, the city initially welcomed them. Dalrymple shows that Zafar was gratified by the "restoration" of his imperial sovereignty but chafed at the lack of proper deference the rebels showed. He complained bitterly about the violation of imperial protocols and the country manners of the largely Hindu sepoys and was alarmed by the jihadi rebels who arrived from the North Indian town of Bareilly to add religious zeal to the Uprising. Trapped between the imperious British and the rude sepoys and zealous jihadis, Zafar reluctantly assumed the mantle of rebellion. However, he was too weak, too indecisive and utterly incapable of assuming the role assigned to him. The Uprising floundered and the elite opinion in the city turned against the violence and the unsophisticated culture of the lowly sepoys. Bandits and roving rebels ruled the roost on highways, making escape from the city hazardous.
Europeans found their houses ransacked, their property looted and their lives endangered. Upon victory, the British celebrated their triumph by letting loose a reign of terror on the fleeing insurgents and Delhi's inhabitants. The princes who had participated in the Uprising surrendered unconditionally to a British officer, William Hodson, with the hope that their lives would be spared. Hodson stripped them naked and shot them in cold blood. Then he promptly proceeded to strip the corpses of their rings and amulets, which he pocketed. Satisfied with the killing and the loot, Hodson wrote to his sister: "I am not cruel, but I must confess I did enjoy the opportunity of ridding the earth of these wretches." Edward Vibart, who participated in what he called the "murder" of defenseless civilians, wrote about the horror of hearing women scream after witnessing their husbands and sons being butchered. "Heaven knows I feel no pity--but when some old grey bearded man is brought and shot before your eyes--hard must be that man's heart I think who can look on with indifference," he wrote. But horror quickly shifted to bravado and justification: "And yet it must be so for these black wretches shall atone with their blood for our murdered countrymen--my own father and mother--sister and brother all cry aloud for vengeance, and their son will avenge them." Slaughter followed slaughter. In the Kucha Chelan neighborhood, Dalrymple writes, about 1,400 residents were cut down: "After the British and their allies had tired of bayoneting the inhabitants, they marched forty survivors out to the Yamuna, lined them up before the walls of the Fort, and shot them." Among them were some of the most distinguished poets and artists of Delhi.
The victors made little distinction between insurgents and civilians. George Wagentrieber wrote with satisfaction in the Delhi Gazette Extra: "Hanging is, I am happy to say, the order of the day here." Believing that the rebels had sexually assaulted their women (a charge proved false by a subsequent inquiry commission), "the British officers did little to stop the raping of the women of Delhi." To escape the victors' wrath, most of Delhi's residents fled to the surrounding countryside, finding shelters in tombs and ruins and scavenging for food. Looters went house to house, seizing whatever they could. "To all of us [soldiers]," wrote one officer, "the loot of the city was to be a fitting recompense for the toils and privations we had undergone." Prize Agents stalked the city, confiscating native property and delivering it to Europeans. To punish the residents for having supported the Uprising, the British considered leveling the entire city. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. "Even so, great swathes of the city--especially around the Red Fort--were still cleared away." Many fine mosques, Sufi shrines, palaces and the houses of notables were demolished. Ghalib grieved that, under wanton destruction, "the whole city has become a desert." Dalrymple relates this story in all its horror, quoting extensively from the melancholy descriptions written by Delhi's literary elite and from accounts by the victors, who gleefully recorded the terrible vengeance they wreaked on the vanquished in what became known as the City of the Dead.
Dalrymple mourns the passing of an age, the end of Delhi's urbane milieu in which the Europeans had taken a deep interest. Now that the "beating heart of Indo-Islamic civilization had been ripped out," the British-Indian racial divide ripped open the body politic. Contrary to received opinion, Dalrymple argues that the Uprising did not cause this divide; rather, the blame should be placed on "the Victorian Evangelicals whose insensitivity, arrogance and blindness did much to bring the Uprising of 1857 down upon both their own heads and those of the people and court of Delhi, engulfing all of northern India in a religious war of terrible violence." The rebel violence and the British retribution merely widened the gap between the rulers and the ruled that had already opened before 1857. He tells this story with an eye on the current phenomenon of an evangelically inspired American imperial power locked in battle with jihadi Islam. He sees ghosts of the past in the present good-versus-evil war: "Today, West and East again face each other uneasily across a divide that many see as religious war. Jihadis again fight what they regard as a defensive action against their Christian enemies, and again innocent women, children and civilians are slaughtered." The contemporary passion for absolutes, he argues, inflicts irreparable damage on ordinary interactions and exchanges between cultures and religions.
As critical as Dalrymple is of the current ideological war of opposites, he is equally impatient with Edward Said and postcolonial critics. Writing with the traditional British suspicion of theory, he sees them as purveying the abstract concepts of Orientalism and colonialism. These abstractions, according to him, do injustice to the human interactions across identities that were common in the eighteenth century. Before nineteenth-century racism and colonial arrogance took over, the British and Indians bridged the distance of language and religion.
Dalrymple is on familiar ground here. He has published two acclaimed books that celebrated Europeans who crossed racial and religious boundaries. In City of Djinns, a book about his year in Delhi, he uncovers the ghosts of the city's turbulent and varied past. Among them was William Fraser, a Scotsman sent by the Company to Delhi in 1805 to pacify the brigand-infested countryside around Delhi. Cut off from his compatriots, Fraser gathered a private force of Indians and set about his business. Always ready to abandon the routine of the office desk for the excitement of the battleground in the Company's wars, he surrounded himself with a community of Indian followers whom his contemporaries likened to Scottish Highlanders. He adopted native dress and customs, and he fathered "as many children as the King of Persia" from his harem of Indian wives. Dalrymple compares him to Mr. Kurtz in Conrad's Heart of Darkness; like Kurtz, "he saw himself as a European potentate ruling in a pagan wilderness." The Company officialdom did not trust him, but Fraser was no power-hungry brute. He was a philosopher who took a deep interest in Sanskrit, composed Persian couplets and befriended the poet Ghalib. His younger brother found him unrecognizable; he had turned "half Hindoostanee." In a curious twist, Dalrymple's research uncovered that Fraser was a distant cousin of his wife.
This mixture of the personal and the intellectual also animates Dalrymple's White Mughals. While researching the book, he discovered that his great-great grandmother was born to a Hindu Bengali woman who had married a Frenchman. This discovery awakened his interest in the unwritten history of interracial unions under empire. In White Mughals, he tells the fascinating story of James Kirkpatrick, the British Resident in the court of Hyderabad between 1797 and 1805. Kirkpatrick fell in love with 14-year-old Khair, the grandniece of a powerful Muslim noble, and married her despite official disapproval. Khair bore him two children, who were promptly packed off to England. After Kirkpatrick died, she had an affair with his assistant, who eventually deserted her. Khair was exiled from Hyderabad, lost her house and money and never got to see her children again. In telling this story of love and betrayal, Dalrymple weaves in accounts of other "White Mughals," men like Sir David Ochterlony, the British Resident in Delhi, who lived the life of a Mughal nobleman. He dressed in Indian clothes, had a fondness for hookahs and dance girls and strolled Delhi every evening with his thirteen wives, each mounted on an elephant.
The Last Mughal returns to this territory of Frasers and Ochterlonys. Dalrymple writes that there were a number of landed families in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who walked the fault lines between Islam and Christianity, the Mughals and the British. Several of these families descended from European mercenaries who had married into the Mughal elite and practiced a hybrid lifestyle. They were Christians but had adopted Mughal customs and manners. All this cultural borrowing came under increasing scrutiny and critique with the consolidation of Company power and the arrival of the evangelicals by the 1830s. An intolerant spirit was in the air. The winds of change were blowing on the Muslim side as well. Zafar himself was born of a Hindu mother, not untypical of the Mughals. He promoted a form of mystical Sufi Islam and was revered by many as a saint. Delhi's literary culture was also open and tolerant, suspicious of orthodox theologians. But the orthodox opinion began gaining strength, setting the stage for the clash of fundamentalisms.
This is a neat formulation, but it is also false. The clash of religious fundamentalisms did not cause the Uprising. A great majority of the sepoys who mutinied and assembled in Delhi to "restore" the Mughal emperor were Hindus. Despite the presence of jihadi rebels, the rebellion was a remarkable display of Hindu-Muslim unity in Delhi and elsewhere. If it was a religious war, it was one only insofar as the rebels opposed what they thought was the British plot to impose Christianity. The growing evangelical influence was a factor in fomenting this opposition, but the causes of the Uprising lay in colonialism itself. Coercion, conflict and violence were built into colonial rule, even when it was imposed with the help of indigenous allies and soldiers. As the Company government violently displaced existing structures of power and authority, it encountered endemic opposition. The 1857 Mutiny in the army over greased cartridges served only to unify and escalate specific grievances at different places and among different groups into a widespread violent opposition to the Company.
To argue, as Dalrymple does, that it was only imperial arrogance and evangelical influence that forced the rebels to engage in a life-or-death struggle is to underestimate the depth of their determination. Revolt and resistance against colonialism were inherent in alien rule. Since the beginning of the Company conquest in the mid-eighteenth century, rebellions were endemic; the Uprising was only the most widespread and fierce expression of the built-in conflict between the colonizers and the colonized. Dalrymple overlooks this history and assumes that but for the nineteenth-century imperial foolhardiness, the imagined eighteenth-century empire might have remained intact. This would be like supposing that prior to present wars of fundamentalisms, the West's history of domination over the rest of the world was free of sharp oppositions and discords. In drawing a parallel between 1857 and the current "clash of civilizations," Dalrymple makes precisely such a suspect assumption. Whatever the role of the "clash of civilizations" ideology in the current conflict, the opposition to Western domination did not begin with it, just as the insurgency against Company rule in India did not start with the arrival of Victorian evangelicalism but was endemic to British rule. Empire has always produced challenge and resistance. If Dalrymple and like-minded writers were not so dismissive of the "abstractions" of Edward Said and postcolonial critics, they would not need the reminder that colonialism was always a fundamentally violent system.
Joseph Conrad wrote that the conquest of earth was never a pretty thing if you looked into it too closely, for it meant taking lands away from people of a different color and appearance. Even if racial superiority and the "civilizing mission" were not marshaled to justify the eighteenth-century empire, this does not mean that it was a pretty thing. As Nicholas Dirks's superb recent book The Scandal of Empire shows, greed, duplicity, corruption, exploitation and violence were present at the birth of Company rule in India. With perceptive readings of the British record in eighteenth-century India, Dirks shows that the scandal of colonial violence and oppression was systemic, and not just the product of a few bloodthirsty and corrupt officials. Edmund Burke's eloquent rage against the Company's arbitrary power during Warren Hastings's impeachment trial, for example, was underpinned by his scorn for Indian customs and traditions. He expressed sympathy for the plight of native rulers deposed by Hastings, but what really troubled him about the Company's conduct was that it was being corrupted by India. One day, he feared, this corruption would spread to Britain. The scandal of Company rule had to be expunged so that the record of the British Empire would remain untarnished. Such an assertion on behalf of the empire and its legitimacy is unthinkable without a belief in Britain's right to conquer and rule and a complete disdain for Indians.
Consider the fabrication of European deaths in the Calcutta Fort in 1757 into the mythical "Black Hole" incident. Dirks points out that combat rather than imprisonment caused most of the deaths, and that there were far fewer fatalities than initially claimed. But Europeans were so quick to believe the lurid tale of Oriental barbarism that the Black Hole soon acquired a mythical status. When the Company carried out sustained wars against indigenous rulers in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the desire to punish native perfidy encouraged the brutal campaigns.
As globalization compresses space and time, those privileged and educated enough to travel between cultures find themselves increasingly impatient with the legacies of imperial racism and nationalist myths. This is understandable. But to retail the eighteenth century as a time when Europeans and non-Europeans overcame racial and religious boundaries is to fly in the face of historical evidence. To see the crossing of imperial borders in the lives of "White Mughals" is to misrepresent both the nature of interracial liaisons and imperial conquest.
Empire made the Frasers and the Ochterlonys possible. It was because of empire, not despite it, that Europeans took an interest in non-European cultures. Colonial power enabled the Europeans to enter into interracial unions, keep concubines and father children, and learn native languages and customs. This was largely a one-way street on which mostly European men traveled to "collect" Indian women, territory, texts and artifacts. Astonishingly, Dalrymple fails to see the sense of imperial entitlement that permitted Company men to penetrate indigenous culture and become White Mughals. He identifies William Fraser with Kurtz but still insists that the eighteenth-century conquerors could act without a sense of racial privilege. This is to claim that empire can permit "easy relationships" between cultures, that human exchanges can occur outside history. Not now, not then.
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Waste Disposal: Doctors, company trade charges
State gets its first rural court
Medicos form coordination committee
Khaps firm on stand, ask MPs to take up their cause
A meeting of 30 khaps in progress at Danoda Kalan village in Narwana subdivsion of
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Power transmission
Pay compensation to consumer, BSNL told
Power Pangs
13 scientists to get Goyal Prize
Quality education key to development, says minister
Science Panorama to enrich kids knowledge: Surjewala
Children play hockey at the skating ring in Childrens Park in Kaithal on Saturday. A Tribune photograph
IPL bookie arrested in Sirsa
Varsity student alleges sexual harassment
Sirsa, April 18 The girl has demanded action against the two teachers and expressed apprehension that her career might be ruined by the two. The allegations have, however, been denied by the two teachers. Virender Singh Chauhan, chairperson of the department, has ordered a departmental probe and said the guide of the girl would be changed. In her complaint submitted to Chauhan on April 6, the student alleged that the teacher she had chosen as guide for her dissertation had been adopting dilatory tactics to finalise the questionnaire for her research and on that day again, she went to his office, which he shares with another teacher, with the same request. While the other teacher sitting there made some unsavoury comments bordering sexual harassment, my guide maintained a discreet silence all this while, the girl alleged in her complaint. She said the other teacher started in a manner that appeared like a joke, but soon started giving meaningful hints as to what her guide expected her to do for him if she wanted her dissertation to be completed this year. She alleged that the other teacher went to the extent of warning her that she would have to complete her studies next year with the first-year students when she expressed her disapproval at his conduct. She said the manner in which her guide observed silence during this while indicated his tacit support to the words uttered by the other teacher. Meanwhile, both teachers have denied the allegations levelled by the student. The complainants guide has said in his comments to the department chairperson that: I was engrossed in my work on the computer and have no knowledge of any such conversation. However, I have no objection to the demand for change of guide. However, the teacher alleged to have made the unsavoury remarks has denied all allegations. I have never said anything unbecoming of the conduct of a teacher and in this particular case too, my conduct as well as the words uttered by me were not below the decency expected of a teacher, he said. Vice-Chancellor Balbir Singh Malik, who is also Commissioner, Hisar Division, is out of the country, while Registrar RK Sehgal could not be contacted as his mobile was switched off throughout the day. |
Waste Disposal: Doctors, company trade charges
Sirsa, April 18 While representatives of Synergy Wastes Management have been accused of irregularity by local doctors, the company, in response, has blamed the doctors for hindering the management of bio-medical wastes. The director of Synergy Wastes Management, Neeraj Agarwal, who has set up bio-medical wastes management facilities in Hisar and several other states, yesterday, refuted charges levelled against his company. Doctors from Sirsa found it convenient to dump their bio-degradable wastes with the garbage as they found it economical. Since, the municipal contractor has hiked his service charges from Rs 300 to Rs 1,000 per month, they have started finding faults with us, alleged Agarwal. We charge Rs 700 per month from laboratories and clinics and Rs 850 per month from hospitals and nursing homes for wastes up to 25 kg a month and charge Rs 25 for every additional kilogram. But, doctors are avoiding giving all bio-medical wastes to us for proper disposal. Instead, they are dumping it with other garbage, caring little for the health of people, Agarwal added. He claimed that his company provided red bags to the doctors for packing their plastic wastes, which are autoclaved, chemically treated and sliced up before disposing it to the scrap dealers. The company also provided yellow bags for packing items like placenta, infected bandages, cotton, body parts and small animals, which are incinerated at their facilities at a temperature between 850 degrees to 1,100 degrees Celsius, he added. The blue coloured puncture proof containers for packing sharp edged items like needles, glass bottles and other such items are arranged by the doctors themselves. He also produced route charts prepared by his staff, where entries had been made on daily basis regarding collection of bio-medical wastes from the 74 doctors of the town, who have been availing his services. Dr Ved Beniwal, patron of the Haryana chapter of the IMA, however, alleged that several doctors had come out with complaints of irregularity and high-handed attitude of the company officials. |
State gets its first rural court
Shahbad, April 18 The objective of rural courts will be achieved only if the legal administrators reach out to rural people and understand their grievances and problems in the right perspective, he told a gathering after inaugurating the court at the tehsil office here, which would cater to 91 panchayats of Shahbad block. Pleading for a separate cadre of legal officers for rural courts, he said judges from the same cadre should be posted at these courts to ensure that their working did not suffer and speedy justice was provided to people. Disclosing that 50,000 such rural courts would be established across the country, he said apart from Shahbad another rural court would also be established in Rania block of Sirsa district. Asserting that these courts had been opened on an experimental basis to benefit the rural people, Justice Jain said it could indeed save precious money and time but the success of these courts would largely depend on the temperament of the officials. Earlier, Amit Kumar Garg assumed charge as judge of the rural court. Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court Mukul Magdal said more than 50 per cent of the population in the state resided in villages and the concept behind these courts was to provide speedy and inexpensive justice. As per the ordinance of rural courts, the courts would dispose of cases within six months and also try to resolve matters through conciliation between the litigant parties, he added. |
Medicos form coordination committee
Sirsa, April 18 Dr Ved Beniwal, patron of the Haryana Chapter of the IMA, said: We have decided to be more transparent in the observance of rules regarding the disposal of bio-medical waste and at the same time take up the issue of irregularities of the company authorised to collect and manage such waste to the Pollution Control Board in future. He said some of their members had been complaining to the association about the alleged high-handed attitude of the officials of the Synergy Wastes Management, the company collecting bio-medical waste from Sirsa. He alleged that two of their members, who objected to the irregular functioning of the company in the past, received notices from the Pollution Control Board. He said the members were of the view that despite paying the service charges of the company, they had become violators of the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998, because they had been taking the irregularities lightly. He said the doctors had also decided to create awareness among people on issues relating to bio-medical waste management and the irregularities being committed in its name. The Pollution Control Board or the company authorised by them does not visit the ayurveda graduates or the registered medical practitioners, though they too have been generating the same waste. Besides, the waste dumped by butchers is equally dangerous, but no efforts are made to manage it, he added. |
Khaps firm on stand, ask MPs to take up their cause
Jind, April 18 The panchayat, which met at Danoda Kalan village in the district, formed a Sarva Jatiya Suraksha Manch to carry on its agitation in this regard. It has exhorted all 10 Lok Sabha MPs from the state to extend their support in this regard. Chaired by Ch Nafe Singh Nain of the Binain khap, the meeting adopted two main resolutions, including the main demand for bringing an amendment to the Hindu Marriage Act. It described the present provisions against the interests of the cultural and social life of a majority of the people of the northern region, including Haryana. Claiming that the meeting today was not limited to Jats alone, a spokesperson for the panchayat claimed that representatives of various castes took part in it. Urging the Union Government to bring an amendment to the law concerned, it demanded that the judiciary should not be allowed to recognise the marriage of a couple which hails from the same village or the same gotra as it is a gross violation of the social norms which have been in existence for hundreds of years. While the reaction of the panchayat to the honour killing judgment did not come up in the resolutions adopted at the meeting, several speakers described it as unfortunate. Issuing a veiled warning to the MPs and other elected representatives, the khap leaders said they could face opposition and protests if they failed to extend cooperation in this regard. The Sarva Jatiya Suraksha Manch, which includes two members each of all 30 khaps, will meet at Jind on April 25 to chalk out the charter of demands to be submitted to the Centre and the state government. It also announced to hold a mahapanchayat on May 2 at Pai in Kaithal to decide its future strategy if no headway was made on the issue by then, said an organiser. Khaps who took part in todays meeting included Narwana, Ujhana, Chattar, Deswal, Kadian, Bhanwala, Dhillon, Beniwal, Panchgrami, Kundu, Dhull, Maun, Bhagal, Bhayana, Balu, Kalwa and Kanina. |
Power transmission
Chandigarh, April 18 The project will be the first in Haryana with VGF in the public-private partnership (PPP) mode. The Bid Evaluation Committee for two 400-KV substations and associate lines in the PPP mode, which met here today under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Urvashi Gulati, approved the lowest bidder for award of the contract. The substations are to be set up in Kabulpur village (Rohtak district) and Deepalpur (Sonepat district) with 400 KV transmission lines at an estimated cost of Rs 382 crore. The new model will set a new milestone in the creation of transmission infrastructure with private sector investment. The project has been awarded on the design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) basis. Jyoti Arora, MD, Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN), said the contract had been awarded to the consortium of Kalpataru Power Transmission, Mumbai, and the Techno Electric and Engineering Co Ltd Kolkata. The consortium had quoted the lowest one-time grant of Rs 93.90 crore over and above the unitary charge of Rs 4.5 crore per month, payable after commissioning of the sub-stations in December, 2011. The state government had decided in November 2008 to adopt the PPP mode for execution of the transmission project for evacuation of power from the Mahatma Gandhi Thermal Power Project (2x660 MW), Jhajjar. The project comprised laying of about 100-km-long 400-KV double-circuit Jhajjar-Kabulpur-Dipalpur transmission line besides two 400 KV substations. Arora said the government had decided to set up 400-KV level substations and related infrastructure in the PPP mode to align the efficiency of the private sector in technology and project implementation, with better maintenance practices. The Planning Commission had assisted the HVPNL in formulating the bidding documents and concession agreement to be entered into with the successful bidder for 25 years with the option for further extension by 10 years. The operation and maintenance of the transmission system under this project would be the responsibility of the bidder. An independent engineer/agency would ensure quality of execution of this project, Arora added. |
Pay compensation to consumer, BSNL told
Yamunanagar, April 18 Besides, finding deficiency in the services of the BSNL, the consumer court has also directed the BSNL to pay litigation expenses of Rs 2,200 to the complainant. Director of Cyber Info Gurjeet Singh had filed a complaint against the BSNL stating that he had obtained the Internet connection - DIAS of 128 kbps - from the BSNL on his landline connection. At the time of allotting the connection it was assured that the connection was of high speed and the complainant could install minimum 12 computers. Thereafter, the complainant installed only four computers at his place. However, the complainant found that the speed of the computers had become slow and the customers of the complainant, being unsatisfied, shifted to another cyber cafes. He has been paying the bills regularly, whereas due to slow speed he is unable to use the same to the extent for which he had taken the connection and a lot of expenses have been incurred by the complainant in this regard. The complainant urged the court to direct the respondents to provide high-speed Internet connection and pay compensation as well as litigation expenses. On the other hand, the BSNL, in its reply to the court, has taken preliminary objections that the present complaint is liable to be referred to the Arbitrator under section 7 (B) of Indian Telegraph Act. The BSNL has also cited various apex court judgments to support its claim. On merit, the BSNL has stated that the direct Internet access service on telephone of the complainant is speedy as per the configuration of the system that is 128 kbps. The BSNL has been providing proper service to the complainant and urged for dismissal of complaint with costs. President of the District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum Dina Nath Arora said the consumer court established under the Consumer Protection Act had jurisdiction to entertain the matter concerning the disputes relating to communications. Allowing the complaint, Arora directed the BSNL to provide high speed on the Internet connection of the complainant and Rs 20,000 as compensation. |
Chautala turns the heat on govt
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Sonepat, April 18 he blamed the central government for making it difficult for the poor to arrange for two meals a day. Despite repeated assurances, the government had failed to check the inflation, he alleged. He was unsparing in his criticism of the state government for its failure to keep promises made during and before the last assembly elections as the state was reeling under a severe power crisis. The law and order situation had also gone beyond the control of the police authorities. Chautala alleged that because of the wrong policies of the government, the state was on the brink of bankruptcy and the development activities had come to a standstill in many parts of the state. Senior party leaders including district president Padam Singh Dahiya, Brig OP Chaudhary and KC Bangar also addressed the meeting. |
13 scientists to get Goyal Prize
Kurukshetra, April 18 Six of these scientists will receive a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh each and the seven young scientists will get Rs 50,000 each. The function will be presided over by Lt-Gen (Dr) DDS Sandhu, Vice-Chancellor of Kurukshetra University. All scientists will deliver lectures on scientific issues of the country tomorrow and day after tomorrow. The scientists who will attend the award ceremony are: Prof G Padmanaban and Prof S Chandrasekaran (both from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Dr Ganesh Pandey and Dr S Sivaram from National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, Dr Sandeep Verma and Dr Manindra Agrawal from IIT, Kanpur, Dr Amit Sharma (ICGEB, New Delhi), Dr APS Awana (NPL, New Delhi), Dr AK Tyagi (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre), Dr Mustansir Barma and Dr K Maiti from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai), Prof TP Singh (AIIMS, New Delhi) and Dr D Mohanty (NII, New Delhi). Akshma D Goyal, wife of late Ram S Goyal, who instituted these prizes, has also come from California to greet these scientists.
Quality education key to development, says minister
Fatehabad, April 18 Speaking to students, staff and prominent persons of the town as the chief guest of the annual prize distribution function of Manohar Memorial Polytechnic here today, the minister said better educated youth today would become better citizens tomorrow and would take the country forward on the way to progress. The government led by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda understands the role of education in the countrys development and has hence laid special emphasis on it, Paramvir Singh said in his address. He said it was the endeavour of the government to ensure that poor students did not have to leave studies for want of funds. Students presented a variety of cultural items on this occasion. |
Science Panorama to enrich kids knowledge: Surjewala
Kaithal, April 18 This was stated by PWD and Public Health Minister Randeep Singh Surjewala after dedicating the newly constructed park adjoining Bidhkyar lake to children here yesterday. The minister said Rs 3.02 crore had been spent on the park spread over 6 acres. Surjewala said musical fountains, electric and manual swings, skating ring, section on medicinal plants, spacious lawns and food hut would be a major source of entertainment for children. |
IPL bookie arrested in Sirsa
Sirsa, April 18 He said a man identified as Vinod Kumar of Ellenabad had been arrested. Six mobile phones, a calculator, a colour TV, two SIM cards and a register maintaining records were seized from him. A case was registered at the Ellenabad police station against him. He said that on a tip off that a person was running a racket of cricket gambling of the IPL Twenty-Twenty match between Royal Challengers and Mumbai from his residence, the police raided the place and nabbed the person. The register contained details of cricket satta of about Rs 4 lakh. Vinod Kumar is an interstate cricket bookie and he got calls on his phone from
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Bedding Materials
There have been traditionally a variety of bedding materials and bedding routines for housed dairy cattle, the choice of which is based on a variety of factors, most notably material cost and availability, plus handling, storage and labour requirements. While some materials have significant advantages over others, it is important to recognise that bedding routines are equally as important as the choice of material.
While the primary consideration of bedding materials may be in the avoidance or reduction of mastitis problems in the herd, there is some evidence to suggest that the material used for bedding can have an impact on herd mobility. The ability for cows to grip well as they lie down or stand limits the potential for injuries from slipping, and the incidence of sole ulcers in dairy herds has been tentatively linked to a lack of good bedding management on some farms.
While sand is renowned as an inert bedding material of particular use in controlling pathogen spread in cattle housing - as both a deep-bedded material and a surface bedding material.
Only fine, washed sand should be used, as other more abrasive varieties have been identified as potential causes of mobility problems due to the damage they can cause to feet through abrasion. Sand has other advantages to cow mobility such as providing good traction on otherwise slippery cubicle passageways and similar surfaces.
Chopped straw is a widely-used bedding material for dairy cow cubicle housing in the UK, and when clean, dry, well-stored straw is used and managed correctly it can provide a comfortable environment for cattle bedding. However, where straw beds are allowed to become heavily soiled, particularly in deep-bedded yards, the bedding has the potential for becoming an effective medium for pathogens responsible for causing infectious foot problems. Further problems can result from straw and muck hardening onto hooves, particularly between claws and where fissures occur in cleats, enabling these pathogens to infect the foot more easily.
Sawdust and Wood Shavings
Sawdust can be a highly variable material, but when screened and dried can provide an effective bedding material when managed properly. It is easy to use - although some sawdust products can be dusty and some fine types can be particularly hazardous to farm staff when being applied - and works well with automated scrapers and slurry systems. Unscreened materials are unsuitable as they can contain shards of wood and even nails and are likely to be very variable. Damp sawdust is an excellent medium for supporting many pathogens so it is essential to keep sawdust dry in storage; well-managed sawdust-based systems can give excellent results but when badly-managed there is considerable potential for problems to occur.
Wood shavings are sometimes used for surface bedding but are very expensive and not as absorbent as sawdust.
Some proprietary sawdust-based bedding products are available which have an incorporated disinfectant, reducing the need for hydrated lime or disinfectant powders commonly used for cattle bedding.
Paper-based bedding materials
A variety of paper-based products are used for livestock bedding, including shredded waste paper, paper pulp and specially-designed proprietary granulated bedding products.
Specially-designed granulated materials can possess excellent characteristics that make them suitable as dairy cow bedding. The latent alkalinity of some paper-based products also has a disinfectant effect and can help to control pathogens.
Paper pulp can set hard, and can produce an undesirable uneven surface. When wet it can heat-up to provide good conditions for pathogens to flourish. Shredded paper is not widley used on farms as it is not particularly absorbent, and cattle bedded on this materials can appear dirty.
Hydrated Lime and Disinfectant powders
Lime is used sparingly with other bedding materials. It has the potential to dry-out and damage teat and udder skin and so must be adequately covered with chopped straw or sawdust, but is very useful in drying-out soiled wet patches on cubicle beds and controlling bacterial levels.
Proprietary disinfectants in powder form are available and used similarly to lime to control bacterial numbers in cattle bedding when used in conjunction with materials such as straw or sawdust.
'Alternative' materials
There is currently no exemption available which allows the use of waste plasterboard or waste gypsum as animal bedding.
Further information about alternative materials available on the Red Tractor website.
Bedding routines and management
Whichever material is chosen, it is essential that cubicle surfaces are kept dry and any soiled or damp bedding is removed on a twice-daily basis at least. Fresh bedding should be added daily, even if this means materials such as chopped straw that can be applied liberally less-frequently are piled at the front of the cubicle bed to be simply drawn backwards daily to replace the soiled materials removed from the bed. Passageways should be scraped regularly to reduce the occurrence of muck and slurry being transferred onto cubicle beds via the cows' feet. The bedding material chosen has obvious implications for slurry handling, particularly where an abrasive material is used.


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SOURCE: Teverson, Andrew S. "Fairy Tale Politics: Free Speech and Multiculturalism in Haroun and the Sea of Stories." Twentieth Century Literature 47, no. 4 (winter 2001): 444-68.
In the following essay, Teverson explores Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories as "a complex allegory that emphasizes the importance of exchange between different cultural groupings," comparing it with such works as Arabian Nights, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
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Late in his life, either in the latter decades of the twelfth century or the first decades of the thirteenth, there is evidence that Farid ud-Din Attar, the Sufi mystic and poet, fell afoul of the Persian authorities and was charged with heresy. He had, according to...
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Florida State Asking Fans To #AskJameis On Twitter Did Not Go Well
Late last week, in a federal court in California, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken confirmed everything any normal thinking person already knew about amateurism in collegiate athletics. Be careful what you #ask.
It's a sham. It's a big lie.
Division I basketball recruits and FBS football players are having the gravy sopped off of them by a fat cat aristocracy that for decades has refused to allow those players to share in the fruits of their labor. In a 99-page ruling in favor of a group of plaintiffs led by former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon, Judge Wilken issued an injunction that will prevent the NCAA "from enforcing any rules or bylaws that would prohibit its member schools and conferences from offering their FBS football or Division I basketball recruits a limited share of the revenues generated from the use of their names, images, and likenesses in addition to a full grant-in-aid."
That's good. So now when an athletics department goes to market its best players as though they are a brand (Hint: They are a brand. Always have been.), there is only slight hypocrisy, not out-and-out hypocrisy.
And I would hate for college athletics departments to stop marketing players, because then we wouldn't get this social media gem that Florida State gave us on Sunday.
Yes, somebody at Florida State -- presumably someone who doesn't watch college football, read the Internet, socialize with other human beings in the state of Florida, and who just opened their Twitter account yesterday and learned how hashtags work and thought "Hey, THIS could work all for building that Jameis' fellas brand!" (It's the only explanation.) -- somebody thought it would be a good idea to allow the internet to ask Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Jameis Winston questions.
Questions about anything. (They didn't specify that, but remember, the internet really has no rules, so any question was fair game to be posted.)
This would prove to be problematic (and hilarious, for those of us who, unlike FSU's social media coordinator, do know how Twitter works) since Winston, in addition to being a fine quarterback, is also very adept at escaping rape accusations and very horrible at stealing crab legs from Publix.
As you can imagine, there were some Seminole fans that attempted to steer the conversation toward actual football questions. Like this guy....
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@TomahawkNation @FSU_Football let ask a real question. What's the biggest difference between this fall camp and last year's? #AskJameis
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#AskJameis @FSU_Football Do you use Old Bay on your crab legs?
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....like a ton of crab leg questions....
@FSU_Football @schadjoe #AskJameis Why no butter with the crab legs? Major party foul. How can u eat crab legs w/out drawn butter?
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....like ALL THE CRAB LEG QUESTIONS....
How many stiff-arms did he throw to get out of the store without paying for the crablegs? #AskJameis
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BC Hydro has posted a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on BC Bid on March 4 for the design, construction, partial financing, operation and maintenance of two temporary accommodation camps for the Site C Clean Energy Project (Site C) in northeastern BC.
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Over 14,000 electronic dance music fans attended the Life in Color show at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Friday, Dec. 28, and nearly everyone was dressed in white and ready to get down-n-dirty with DJs Benny Benassi, R3hab, Diplo, David Solano and more for the what the organizers claim to be the 'world's largest paint party'.
By the end of the night all of those white shirts were drenched and stained in a multitude of different colors of paint.
This wasn't a club party. The 17-and-over event was more like a full on spectacle with an astronaut armed with a paint-spouting-fire-hose, paint cannons exploding across the crowd, a laser-fingered-devil on stilts, acrobats on trampolines and few of the top DJs in the EDM industry.
Benny Benassi, R3hab and Diplo all delivered pulse pounding performances that kept the crowd raging on but the florescent paint added an extra element of amusement to the party.
The excitement of the paint was contagious and so much fun that R3hab couldn't resist. He picked up the fire-hose and doused the screaming fans during Diplo's set. Of course, the crowd loved it.
Back in the day the cool kids just wore a three-striped Adidas shirt, a hat to match and a pair of extra-wide legged Jincos – along with a glow stick on a string.
Now, the creativity that comes out of the EDM fans is remarkable. They come up with inspired outfits and ingenious gadgets. There are furry hoods with strands of LEDs built-in, oversized glow sticks and more luminescent jewelry than you could imagine. And these days they mostly wear skinny jeans.
Before electronic music became mainstream the 'club-kids' of the 90's would pack into these big warehouse that instantaneously become underground clubs on the weekends. Life in Color was reminiscent of those days but you can see how EDM has become mainstream.
Black lights illuminated the paint and the convention center had been equipped with more than a thousand lasers and lights.
To get the show started there was an early performance by Demtrious who was joined by Timbaland. Later, the attendees received a special guest performance from DJ Irie who showed his love for the Miami HEAT.
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Autoregulation of Organ Blood Flow
Autoregulation is a manifestation of local blood flow regulation. It is defined as the intrinsic ability of an organ to maintain a constant blood flow despite changes in perfusion pressure. For example, if perfusion pressure is decreased to an organ (e.g., by partially occluding the arterial supply to the organ), blood flow initially falls, then returns toward normal levels over the next few minutes. This autoregulatory response occurs in the absence of neural and hormonal influences and therefore is intrinsic to the organ. When perfusion pressure (arterial minus venous pressure, PA-PV) initially decreases, blood flow (F) falls because of the following relationship between pressure, flow and resistance:
When blood flow falls, arterial resistance (R) falls as the resistance vessels (small arteries and arterioles) dilate. Many studies suggest that that metabolic, myogenic and endothelial mechanisms are responsible for this vasodilation. As resistance decreases, blood flow increases despite the presence of reduced perfusion pressure.
The figure to the right shows the effects of suddenly reducing perfusion pressure from 100 to 70 mmHg. In a passive vascular bed, that is, one that does not show autoregulation, this will result in a rapid and sustained fall in blood flow. In fact, the flow will fall more than the 30% fall in perfusion pressure because of passive constriction as the intravascular pressure falls, which is represented by a slight increase in resistance in the passive vascular bed. If a vascular bed is capable of undergoing autoregulatory behavior, then after the initial fall in perfusion pressure and flow, the flow will gradually increase (red line) over the next few minutes as the vasculature dilates (resistance decreases - red line). After a few minutes, the flow will achieve a new steady-state level. If a vascular bed has a high degree of autoregulation (e.g., brain and coronary circulations), then the new steady-state flow may be very close to normal despite the reduced perfusion pressure.If an organ is subjected to an experimental study in which perfusion pressure is both increased and decreased over a wide range of pressures, and the steady-state autoregulatory flow response measured, then the relationship between steady-state flow and perfusion pressure can be plotted as shown in the figure to the right. The red line represents the autoregulatory responses in which flow changes relatively little despite a large change in perfusion pressure. If a vasodilator drug is infused into an organ so that it is maximally dilated and incapable of autoregulatory behavior, the curve labeled "Dilated" is generated as perfusion pressure is changed. It is non-linear because blood vessels passively dilate with increasing pressures, thereby reducing resistance to flow. When the vasculature is not maximally dilated, many organs will display autoregulation as the perfusion pressure is reduced. When this occurs, there will be a range of perfusion pressures (i.e., autoregulatory range) where flow may not decrease appreciably as perfusion pressure is reduced. The "Constricted" curve represents the pressure-flow relationship when the vasculature is maximally constricted and when autoregulation is not present. This figure also shows that there is a pressure below which an organ is incapable of autoregulating its flow because it is maximally dilated. This perfusion pressure, depending upon the organ, may be between 50-70 mmHg. Below this perfusion pressure, blood flow decreases passively in response to further reductions in perfusion pressure. This has clinical implications in coronary, cerebral, and peripheral arterial disease, where proximal narrowing (stenosis) of vessels may reduce distal pressures below the autoregulatory range; hence, the distal vessels will be maximally dilated and further reductions in pressure will lead to reductions in flow. There is an upper limit to the autoregulatory range; however, this upper limit is seldom reached physiologically.
Different organs display varying degrees of autoregulatory behavior. The renal, cerebral, and coronary circulations show excellent autoregulation, whereas skeletal muscle and splanchnic circulations show moderate autoregulation. The cutaneous circulation shows little or no autoregulatory capacity.
Under what conditions does autoregulation occur and why is it important? A change in systemic arterial pressure, as occurs for example with hypotension caused by hypovolemia or circulatory shock, can lead to autoregulatory responses in certain organs. In hypotension, despite baroreceptor reflexes that constrict much of the systemic vasculature, blood flow to the brain and myocardium does not decline appreciably (unless the arterial pressure falls below the autoregulatory range) because of the strong capacity of these organs to autoregulate. Autoregulation, therefore, ensures that these critical organs have an adequate blood flow and oxygen delivery.
There are situations in which arterial pressure does not change, yet autoregulation is very important. Whenever a distributing artery to an organ becomes narrowed (e.g., atherosclerotic narrowing of lumen, vasospasm, or partial occlusion with a thrombus) this can result in an autoregulatory response. Narrowing (see stenosis) of distributing arteries increases their resistance and hence the pressure drop along their length. This results in a reduced pressure at the level of smaller arteries and arterioles, which are the primary vessels for regulating blood flow within an organ. These resistance vessels dilate in response to reduced pressure and blood flow. This autoregulation is particularly important in organs such as the brain and heart in which partial occlusion of large arteries can lead to significant reductions in oxygen delivery, thereby leading to tissue hypoxia and organ dysfunction.
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