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Geography of Maharashtra presents a broad picture of the state of Maharashtra at the beginning of the 21st century. The essays presented here are intended to further our understanding of Maharashtra’s physical, economic and cultural landscape. The volume is divided into three parts. Part I The Physical Environment contains papers describing the physiography, climate, soils, forests and wildlife of Maharashtra. In Part II an overview of the Economic and Cultural ...
While metropolitan areas and big cities have always received serious attention from all quarters--social scientists, development planners, administrators and policy makers--the small and medium towns have largely been neglected by all. It is only recently that the importance of medium towns for diffusing regional development has been realized by the government, and considerable attention is being focused on initiating a number of schemes and projects to stimulate ...