Myrica Esculenta Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don (Kaiphal) is an income-generating small wild tree with edible fruit and other by-products in the sub-Himalayan region of India. This study assesses the availability of the species in different habitats, analyzes
Democratisation without representation ? The power and political strategies of a rural elite in north India
Caste ; Employment ; India ; Local administration ; Network ; Peasantry ; Police ; Political geography ; Rural area ; Rural society ; Social inequality ; UttarPradesh
Andhra Pradesh ; Geochemistry ; Gujarat ; India ; Mineralogy ; Nepal ; Palaeo-ecology ; Palaeosol ; Pedogenesis ; Red soil ; Soil properties ; Tropical zone ; Weathering
The AA. investigated the mineralogy and chemistry of 6 Red Soils from 2 intramontane basins (duns) within the Siwalik system in SW Nepal near the border with India. To distinguish recent and relict features in tropical regions, they also studied
previously the mineralogy of 9 surface Red Soils formed on saprolite derived from Peninsular Gneiss in South India. These soils occur in a climatic sequence from 2500 mm annual rainfall (10 wet months) on the winward side of the Western Ghats to 590 mm a-1
AIDS ; Anthropology ; Asia ; Family environment ; India ; Infection ; Marriage ; Research ; Risk ; Sexual behavior ; Sexuality ; Urban environment ; Viral disease
Antropología ; Asia ; Conducta sexual ; India ; Infección ; Investigación ; Matrimonio ; Medio familiar ; Medio urbano ; Riesgo ; SIDA ; Sexualidad ; Virosis
Delhi ; Housing ; India ; Land use ; Social change ; Urban environment ; Urban fringe ; Urbanization
The national capital of India, Delhi, is a city where indisputable economic progress related to urbanisation is accompanied by tremendous environmental concerns, congestion, poverty, and housing shortages. This thesis focuses on the rural-urban
Chemical erosion ; Clay mineral ; Climatic geomorphology ; Climax ; Concept ; India ; Pedogenesis ; Soil ; Tropical zone ; Water balance ; Weathering
Gradient modelling of a steep ecoline in South India has highlighted a suite of landscape units, which appear to be entirely ordained by a simple water balance index. This univariate climofunction is reflected in vegetation, landform, weathering
Agricultural price ; China ; Economic history ; Famine ; Food ; Food security ; India ; Living standard ; Poverty ; Subsistence agriculture ; Third World ; Vulnerability
Temporal variations in the network of man-impacted gully basins in the sub-humid tropical alluvial riverine environment. A case study of Deoghat gullies of Allahabad District, India
Agricultural land use ; Geomorphometry ; Gully erosion ; Human impact ; India ; Rill wash ; Slope gradient ; Soil erosion ; Tropical zone ; UttarPradesh ; Watershed