Sentences with phrase «scholars as the point of reference»

However, rather than simply accepting the opinion of states and critical Western scholars as the point of reference, the edited book Responsibility to Protect: Cultural Perspectives in the Global South by Rama Mani and Tom Weiss addresses the important and so far under - researched question of what scholars and activists from the global south really think about the R2P principle and how the R2P implementation process can account for those southern concerns and insights.

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Modern scholars point to mid-19th-century commentary on the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the manual for hatha yoga, as the first reference to a Sun Salutation practice, but they say written instructions did not appear in any books until the early 2oth century — a time when the rajah of Aundh (a former state in India) sought to strengthen society physically and spiritually via a series of asanas.