Army ; Buddhism ; Burma ; China ; Foreign policy ; Geostrategy ; India ; International relations ; Policy ; Political regime
Relations between India and Burma date back to the 3rd century BC and Burma was at one time the largest province of British India. In 1962, the advent of the military rules isolated the country by throwing the bamboo curtain on it. India has thus
long ignored its eastern neighbour and after 1988, the idealist policies. India defined towards Burma was not altered. At the end of the 90s India's policy toward Burma was dramatically shifted with the launch of its Look East Policy. India's strategy
Trends and periodicity in the longest instrumental rainfall series for the area of most extreme rainfall in the world, northeast India
Assam ; Climate fluctuation ; Climatic trend ; India ; Meghalaya ; Monsoon ; Nineteenth Century ; Periodicity ; Precipitation ; Statistics ; Time series ; Twentieth Century
The longest instrumental rainfall series have been investigated for the North Assam subdivision and 4 meteorological stations in Northeast India. Analysis of trends to annual and seasonal rainfall show these to be very stable, with no change
Role of microtopography in the formation of sodic soils in the semi-arid part of the Indo-Gangetic Plains, India
Alluvial plain ; Arid area ; Ganges River ; India ; Micromorphology ; Mineralogy ; Neotectonics ; Pedogenesis ; Saline soil ; Semi-arid area ; Soil properties ; UttarPradesh
In the northwestern part of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), India, non-sodic and moderately sodic soils occur on microhigh (MH) and highly sodic soils on microlow (ML) position under a semi-arid climate. The main soil-forming processes have been
Demographic structure ; Educational level ; Health ; India ; Occupational activity ; Rural population ; Social structure
This paper focuses on the health pattern of rural population in the Lower Ganga Plain (eastern India). Author accomplished an analysis of health conditions of the local population according to demographic structure (age and sex), social composition
Identity ; India ; Internal migration ; Labour ; Labour migration ; Labour mobility ; Modernization ; Regional development
Harnessing primary and secondary evidence from India, the paper conceptualizes the cultural dynamics of migration. It demonstrates the incompletedness of standard marginalist and Marxist accounts of labor circulation. The AA. examine the linkages
L'aide publique au développement dans l'espace india-océanique : une approche géographique
Les volumes et la répartition sectorielle de l'aide publique au développement sont analysés pour l'ensemble des pays de l'espace india-océanique, par grands ensembles régionaux. Le rôle prédominant et moteur assuré par le groupe de la Banque
Voices of the damned : discursive resistance amidst erasure in the Narmada Valley, India
Conflict ; Dam ; Environment ; Gujarat ; Hydraulic works ; Impact study ; India ; Madhya Pradesh ; Maharashtra ; Non-governmental organization ; Project ; Social movement ; Stream ; Transfer of population
Arunachal Pradesh ; Community ; India ; Legal status ; Legislation ; Slavery ; Society ; Tribe
attempts to provide an alternative perspective of study of tribal societies of north-east India, Burma and Tibet. The themes studied : origin of slavery, position of slaves and abolition of slavery. Although the abolition process started in Arunachal