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  • The issues at stake : an overview of gender concerns in post-independence India
  • Colonization ; Feminism ; Independence ; India ; Organization ; Status of women ; Woman
  • . The A. provides some representative case-study materials on India women in struggle. This is followed by an account of how women have been defined as a problem by various Indian plans.
  • 1997
  • Where angels fear to tread ? Mapping women and men in India
  • Cartographical display ; India ; Infant mortality ; Population
  • The AA. introduce maps of the sex ratio in India and explore through a map of changes in the sex ratio 1981-91 some numerical, analytical, and ethical problems of such mapping.
  • 1997
  • Food consumption and nutrition in rural areas of Madhya Pradesh, India (with special reference to Sagar division)
  • Consumer habit ; Countryside ; Food ; Food consumption ; India ; Madhya Pradesh ; Village
  • 1997
  • From forest struggle to forest citizens ? Joint forest management in the unquiet woods of India's Jharkhand
  • Forest ; Forest policy ; Forest resources ; Forestry ; India ; Logging ; Participation ; Resource management
  • The AA. consider the role played by forest struggles and forest intellectuals in the rewriting of India's forest policies. They also evaluate the utility of a moral economy framework in guiding joint forest management policies. They draw on village
  • 1997
  • Space, mobility, and collective action : India's Naxalite movement
  • Andhra Pradesh ; Conflict ; Cultural studies ; Ideology ; India ; Land ; Organization ; Peasantry ; Place ; Rural society ; Social movement ; Tribe ; West Bengal
  • and cultural specificity of movements and about the cultural expressions of social movement agency. These arguments are contextualized by analyzing the Maoist insurgency of the Naxalite movement, which first emerged in India during the late 1960s.
  • 1997
  • Richer farmers and agrarian change in Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Agricultural revolution ; Agriculture ; Economic strategy ; Farm ; Farmer behaviour ; India ; Investment ; Rural development ; Technical innovation in agriculture ; UttarPradesh
  • The study begins with a review of Green Revolution research in India. The A. discusses about the crucial role of the investment patterns of richer farmers in governing the dynamics of rural industrialisation. Various characterisations of richer
  • 1997
  • A geography of the sex ratio in India
  • Demography ; Gender difference ; India ; Mortality ; Regional disparities ; Social system
  • 1997
  • Claiming the high ground : theories of imperial authority and the British hill stations in India
  • Administration ; Colonialism ; Historical geography ; Imperialism ; India ; Nineteenth Century ; Power
  • 1997
  • The effects of colonialism on forests and the local people in the Garhwal Himalaya, India
  • Administration ; Colonialism ; Forest ; Forest resources ; Himalaya ; India ; Land ; Logging ; Resource management ; Settlement history ; UttarPradesh
  • 1997
  • State, discourse, and development in India : the case of West Bengal's Panchayati Raj
  • Decentralization ; India ; Local authority ; Political geography ; Political life ; Rural community ; Rural development ; Society ; State ; Village ; West Bengal
  • 1997
  • Nonsecessionist regionalism in India : the Uttarakhand separate State movement
  • Administrative division ; Autonomy ; Conflict ; Democracy ; Federalism ; India ; Political geography ; Regionalism ; State ; UttarPradesh
  • 1997
  • Autonomy ; Conflict ; India ; Jammu and Kashmir ; National territory ; Pakistan ; Political geography ; Religion ; Sovereignty
  • In respect to the disputed State of Jammu and Kashmir, whose independence neither India nor Pakistan will countenance, The A. suggests that the two powers agree instead to the establisment of a Kashmir Autonomous Region, that a People's Assembly
  • be elected, and that a plebiscite be held to determine which areas shall become part of the KAR and which be fully integrated into India and Pakistan.
  • 1997
  • Soils and climatic geomorphology on the Karnataka Plateau, peninsular India
  • Clay mineral ; Heavy rain ; India ; Karnataka ; Land use ; Monsoon ; Precipitation ; Semi-arid area ; Slope ; Slope dynamics ; Soil ; Soil erosion ; Tropical zone ; Weathering
  • 1997
  • Dendroclimatic reconstruction of april-may temperature fluctuations in the western Himalaya of India since A.D. 1698
  • Climatic variability ; Climatic variation ; Dendroclimatology ; Dendrology ; El Niño ; High mountain ; Himalaya ; India ; Monsoon ; Palaeoclimatology ; Palaeotemperature ; Spring ; UttarPradesh
  • 1997
  • Collective facilities ; Himalaya ; India ; Induced effect ; Mountain ; Public service ; Road ; Road network ; UttarPradesh ; Village
  • The effects of road development were studied in a remote high-altitude Central Himalaya of India. Distribution of schools and postal services was not affected by this new road network, but health-care facilities, drinking water supplies, electricity
  • 1997
  • Investigation of trade in medicinal and aromatic products (MAP) from the rural areas of Gorkha District in central Nepal to the wholesale markets in India over two-year period. Authors found 36 products, almost all of which were exported unprocessed
  • to India. They found the MAP markets to suffer from limited price information and poor market integration. A small number of Terai wholesalers earned excessive profits. Governments reforms, but not direct intervention in the markets (e.g., parastatals
  • 1997
  • Colonization ; Development ; Environment ; India ; Liberalisation ; Resource management ; State control ; Sustainable development
  • India. Three factors that have shaped dominant policy phases and strategies of state institutions engaged in resource management are highlighted. In focusing on the interplay of them, the A. illustrates the continuities and shifts in the strategies.
  • 1997
  • Cultural studies ; Economic development ; History ; Human geography ; India ; Policy ; Population ; Society
  • 1997
  • Asia ; China ; Climatic variation ; Global change ; India ; Irrigation ; Model ; Pakistan ; Population growth ; Simulation ; South Korea ; Southern Asia ; Water ; Water deficit ; Water resources
  • Results of the impact of climate change on water resources in 4 countries in South Asia. Under present socio-economic and climatic conditions, China, India, Pakistan and South Korea are facing water deficits. The characteristic feature of water
  • 1997
  • Caste ; India ; Marginality ; Minority ; Population distribution ; Rural population ; Thematic mapping ; Tribe
  • 1997