Encyclopaedia of North India. Volume 1 : The North-East : part 1, History of the region, part 2, The Ahom period, part 3, The British period, Volume 2 : Assam, Volume 3 : Arunachal Pradash, Manipur, Volume 4 : Naga tribes, Meghalaya
Community ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic community ; History ; India ; Language ; Tribe
This 5 volumes encyclopaedic study of India's North-East is the result of the Author's 11 years of service in the region. It studies the diversity of the North-East (ethnics, racial, religious, linguistic, size, historic and geography). If India
is microcosmic world, the North-East is microcosmic India. 213 communities are indigenous to the North-East, among which 111 languages are found in Arunachal Pradesh alone. It is the home to 325 spoken languages. Assam State, with a population of 39 millions
constitutes 2,69 % of India's surface while its area is 255 088 sq. km (7,75 % of the 3.287.263 sq. km of India).
Observations on rock glaciers in the Himalayas and Karakoram Mountains of northern Pakistan and India
Asia ; Geomorphology ; Himalaya ; India ; Mass movement ; Moraine ; Mountain ; Pakistan ; Permafrost ; Rock glacier ; Sediment transport
This paper will examine the characteristics and distribution of rock glaciers in the Karakoram Mountains and northern India to highlight importance as geomorphological agents and to assess geomorphological significance.
Isotopic fingerprints of paleoclimates during the last 30,000 years in deep confined groundwaters of southern India
Carbon ; Climatic variation ; Geochemistry ; Groundwater ; India ; Lateglacial ; Oxygen 18 ; Palaeoclimate ; Quaternary ; Tamil Nadu
This paper reports results, related to paleoclimatic events during the last 30,000 years, obtained from isotope studies of deep confined groundwater of southern India. This is the first study of the confined groundwaters of southern India
All Toba tephra occurences across peninsular India belong to the 75,000 yr B.P. eruption
Dating ; Geochemistry ; India ; Pleistocene ; Quaternary ; Tephrochronology ; Trace-element ; Volcanic eruption
A controversy currently exists regarding the number of Toba eruptive events represented in the tephra occurences across peninsular India. Resolution of this issue was sought through detailed geochemical analyses of a comprehensive suite of samples
, allowing comparison of the Indian samples to those from the Toba caldera in northern Sumatra, Malaysia, and the sedimentary core at ODP Site 758 in the Indian Ocean. In addition, 2 samples of Toba tephra from western India were dated by fission-track method
. The results demonstrate that all the Toba tephra occurrences in peninsular India belong to the 75,000 yr B.P. Toba eruption.
The effect of community structure on social forestry outcomes : insights from Chota Nagpur, India
Bihar ; India ; Logging ; Resource management ; Rural community ; Rural society ; Stand treatment
Social forestry is forest management that takes rural people into account to improve rural welfare and minimize environmental degradation. Author studied eighteen villages on the Chota Nagpur Plateau in southeastern Bihar, India to weigh how
In this paper, the AA. attempt to construct a detailed terrestrial late Pleistocene climatic record in India by studying oxygen and carbon stable isotopes in pedogenic calcrete from the Thar Desert. The nearly continuous calcrete record in eolian
Ecological and regional protests in Uttarakhand, northern India
Caste ; Ecological movement ; Ethnic community ; Forest ; India ; Political geography ; Region ; Regionalism ; Separatism ; Socio-economic system ; UttarPradesh
Hill ; Himalaya ; India ; Project ; Resource management ; Rural development ; Thailand ; Tribe ; Watershed
Report on two workshops focusing on watershed management in India and participatory resource management in the hill areas of Thailand. Watershed-plus refers to the broad focus of watershed management/development to include participation of the poor
and landless. Author reviews lessons of World Bank watershed projects in India. Thai workshop centered on 18-year experience of the GTZ-funded Thai-German Highland Development Project, which has dealt with development issues associated with the Hill Tribes
This study seeks to explore the value of Ahnert equation as a normative geomorphological tool. In 2 successive and complementary stages, its principles are applied to the Western Dharwar Craton of South India. First, the robustness of local relief
denudation values, and for evaluating the impact of man-induced erosion in the crystalline uplands of South India.