Longwave radiation in the Himalayas of central Nepal and northwestIndia
This paper focuses on the energy balance's longwave radiation component for selected summer daytime periods in the Annapurna region of central Nepal and various mountain sites in Kashmir and Ladakh of northwestern India.
Urban-rural relations, demand politics and the new agrarianism in northwestIndia: the Bharatiya Kisan Union
Agriculture ; Association ; India ; Local policy ; Peasantry ; Rural-urban relations ; Social movement ; Social reproduction ; Village
and appeal of the BKU in northwestIndia. Evidence is drawn from fieldwork in two villages and from interviews with local political leaders. Economic factors are important, but patterns of support are affected by caste and community considerations.
A class of farmers, newly hegemonic in the Indian countryside, is mobilizing support for a new agrarian politics that pits rural India against an exploitative urban India. These claims are examined with reference to the organization, tactics
the geomorphic and hydrographic expressions of the Chandigarh and the Janauri active anticlines in the NW India Siwaliks. To investigate the morphological scenario during the folding process, they used spatial imagery, geomorphometric parameters extracted from
Estimates of holocene precipitation for Rajasthan, India, based on pollen and lake-level data
A pollen profile obtained from lake sediments at Lunkaransar, Rajasthan, in northwestIndia was used along with a pollen-climate calibration function to estimate past precipitation. Between 10,500 and 3,500 yr B.P., the estimated precipitation
topographic profiles of parts of the Kali River Basin bring out preferred stream migration in response to Quaternary ground tilting of southeast and northwest directions across the North Almora Thrust. An oblique-slip type of movement along the fault has been
Asia ; Himalaya ; India ; Land use ; Landslide ; Lithology ; Mass movement ; Mountain ; Natural hazards ; Nepal ; Slope ; Water resources
results but the assessment will also be based on the Author's experiment working in the Darjeeling region of northeast India, the Kumaun Himalayas of northwestIndia, and 3 years involvement in a land use, soil conservation, and water resource management
Elo-India I. Indiai Koztarsasag. (East India. I. The Republic of India)
The A. reviews the physical endowments, especially climate, the demographical explosion and the unstable economy based on agriculture of the Republic of India, always regarding didactic aspects. (C. Kiricsi).
Asia ; Central Asia ; Climatic change ; Deforestation ; Environmental degradation ; Geographical information system ; Himalaya ; Human impact ; India ; Inundation ; Mountain ; Natural hazards ; Nepal ; Pakistan ; Slope dynamics
This paper focuses on the Nanga Parbat massif in the Himalaya Range of Pakistan, Garhwal Himalaya of northwestIndia, and Manaslu-Ganesh Himals of central Nepal. The A. has highlighted 3 special insights that geographers offer to increase
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