A Kumar
30 books
Flood and water logging land situations are the natural features of Eastern India. These situations start from the foot hills of the Himalayas in Nepal and extended up to Bangla Desh covering the entire stretch of eastern India. The flood-prone basins of eastern India have their own traditional farming systems. Traditional technologies give low but stable yield. Improved technologies generated at experimental stations have not been able to outperform ...
The present book “Fundamentals of Environmental Economics” is an accessible and up-to-date text covering all essential aspects of Environmental Economics. In this book, the readers can realize that, the environmental issues are viewed from an economic perspective, and therefore economic solutions to environmental protection are amply incorporated. The book comprises of fifteen chapters. The presentation of some of the chapters like the Externalities, ...
Sociology was thought of as a synthesizing filed that attempted to integrate the findings acquired from other social sciences. Although such concepts concerning the scope and task of sociology are still prevalent, they now tend to be regarded as the province of sociological theory, which is only a part of the entire discipline. Sociological theory also includes the discussion and analysis of basic concepts that are common to all the different spheres of social ...
Agriculture includes cultivation of the soil, growing and harvesting crops, breeding and raising livestock, dairying, and forestry. Modern agriculture depends heavily on engineering and technology and on the biological and physical sciences. Irrigation, drainage, conservation, and sanitary engineering-each of which is important in successful farming-are some of the fields requiring the specialized knowledge of agricultural engineers. Agriculture, which employs ...
The positive aspects of social change in India, have generated a substantial number of contradictions in the social system. The rise of the middle class in villages and cities has led to hostile attitudes towards the weaker sections and the poor. In villages, the tensions between the Harijans and the Hindu upper castes have increased and necessitated the passage of the civil rights and disabilities act. The exploitation of the labourers by rich peasants held ...
Contemporary society, can be rightly termed as a complex society. The present book portrays a vivid picture of the same—highlighting many of its significant features. The major themes given an elaborate treatment in this book. Besides the academic worth, this book will prove a dependable reference work to social scientists and social activists in the field.
Socio-political processes and changes affect the occupational world as much as the scientific and technological developments. Little laxity existed for individual in a rigidly structured society where life is governed by strict traditional norms as in the case of India. Some of the important issues discussed pros and cons in this book.
A major hurdle of defining a tribe is that related with the problem of distinguishing the tribe from peasantry. Earlier anthropologists had not paid sufficient attention to the definition of tribal society, but tacitly assumed that what they were studying in Australia, Melanesia and Africa were various forms of tribal society. Further, unlike Bailey, the majority of Indian anthropologists have not given much serious thought to the problem of creating a definition ...
The health of environment is very important for our sustainable development. So, its management strategies is imperative, therefore, considering these two aspects, this book has been edited to decipher certain deep facts which are undeciphered hitherto. This book is a unique compilation of 61 recent research articles of eminent environmental biologists and ecoplanners from different parts of our country and the book will be a milestone in the field of ...
This book entitled "Environmental Impact Assessment and Management", embodies 15 chapters covering a wide spectrum Chapter 1. Contains details of EIA, basic elements and methodologies. Further, important guidelines to be followed before establishing industries, water related projects and transport related projects are narrated in chapter 2. Important case studies of EIA viz, second stage expansion of Malpe Fishing Harbour, human impact on Himalayan ...
This book aims to attract dialogue amongst the economist, sociologists, policy planners and all other concerned. The economists and management thinkers have discussed in detail, their concern, regarding regional development and factors related therewith in the light of new economic policy. The main contents are : Globalisation, Competition and Economic Stability; Challenges of Globalisation for India; Globalisation and Privatisation- Some Theoretical Issues; ...
For the lay reader, the Census is a drab subject, replete with massive statistics. However, India has proud history of conducting an uninterrupted decennial census ever since 1881. With the increasing entry of professional demographers in the census arena and the unfortunate development of equating demography with family planning census analysis tends to get overshadowed by demographers. The present volume, which is mainly based on the results of 2001 Census, ...
Of late, despite taking several steps to strengthen the legal framework for providing protection to women, the position of women in the society is not exactly what it should be. In the social and cultural fields where they were supposed to be the leaders, they have gradually lost their position, whereas, in the economic field they have not been given any position at all and are entirely at the mercy of the male society. As a class, they have come to occupy a ...
The specific meaning of social change depends first of all on the social entity considered. Changes in a small group may be important on the level of that group itself but negligible on the level of the larger society. Similarly, the observation of social change depends on the time span taken; most short-term changes are negligible if a social development is studied in the long run. Even if one abstracts from small-scale and short-term changes, social change ...
The long talked about growth of computers and the "information explosion" are today's relatives in our social and economic institutions. The purpose of this work is to provide fundamental knowledge to enable one to participate in the development and use of information systems in modern organizations. The variety of information requirements and the sophisticated ways in which these requirements are satisfied in modern organizations. This is not a book of ...
'Women' constitute half of the human population on the earth. They have been treated as weaker sex in all societies of the world. They are discriminated, maltreated and oppressed everywhere. Amidst the plenty of literature on women studies this work is unique which imparts valuable information extracted from various authoritative sources. The information is supported by facts and figures. A veritable mine of information this Encyclopaedic work will prove a vade ...
Internet, computer-based world wide information network. The Internet is composed of a large number of smaller interconnected networks called internets. The internet contains the WWW and also includes all the hardware (computers, supercomputers, and connections) and non-WWW software and protocols in which the WWW runs. The difference between the Internet and the WWW is similar to the distinction between a computer and a multimedia program that runs on the ...