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Singh, Rana P. B.

Uprooting geographic thoughts in India : toward ecology and culture in 21st century / by Rana P.B. Singh ; with three essays by Oskar Spate, David Sopher, and A.B. Mukerji ; foreword by David Simon. - Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009. - 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps - Planet earth & cultural understanding : a series . - Planet Earth & cultural understanding. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

VIEWS ON THE BOOK; PLANET EARTH & CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Under the cultural turn and transformation the new intellectual discourses started in the 21st century to search the roots, have cross-cultural comparison and to see how the old traditions be used in the contemporary worldviews. This book is the first attempt dealing with roots of Indian geographical thoughts since its beginning in 1920. It emphasises identity of India and Indianness and consciousness among dweller geographers in India, development and status of geography and its recent trend ...


English.

ISBN: 9781443807944 (electronic bk.) 144380794X (electronic bk.) 1282191616 9781282191617 9786612191619 6612191619

Source: 219161 MIL

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cultural geography--India.
Géographie culturelle--Inde.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Human Geography.
Cultural geography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GF661 / .S57 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 304.20954