K.S. Gulia
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Discovering Himalaya is an informative anthology of over 30 descriptive essays, analytical articles, review papers and absorbing travelogues that portray the beauty and characteristic features of Himalayan ecosystem -- its glaciers, rivers, river basins, watershed etc., and also highlight the issues, problems and challenges related to their conservation and management. Not only that, their importance and role as an eco-tourism attraction has also been discussed ...
The humans, like all other species on Planet Earth interact with each other during their span of life. Humans constitute a part of the Earth’s biomass. The bio-matter constituting the human frames has been tossing right through the history of time when the humans first evolved. During this span of millions of years the humans have interacted within their own species, as well as with other species, down the geological history. The ...
The rural and tribal people living beyond the modern civilization had been dependent on herbs, and plants in forests from the time immemorial. Many of these plants are indeed very effective in curing diseases. Some practitioners of this primitive branch of medicine have become experts in the ethnopharmacology. Many herbs and plants used in curing various ailments during their practice of magico-sorcery create hallucinogenic effects on the subject and thus bring ...
Man and animals have biological needs to be met like food, water and protection. But humans are unique as compared to the animals because of their ability to produce a second nature out of the first nature. While the geographical and physical settings determined the adoptive rationale of the earlier human society, with advancement, the humans have carved a second nature out of the first nature. Different cultural entities and civilisations prospered in ...
The Himalayan ecology and the ecosystems of the urban centres are in the spotlight today. An imbalance in the environment a resulted in glacial recessions, cloud bursts and floods causing massive devastation. This has caused much concern amongst the ecologists and environmentalists. The forest cover is reducing not only in Indian side of Himalaya, but in Bhutan and Nepal also. This book deals with the problems besetting the Himalayan river systems, various ...
A number of factors are responsible for disappearance of different art forms from the Himalayan region. The main among them are social, economical and ecological ones. The cultural invasion from outside is also one of them. During Mughal, Sikh and Rajput periods, the Himalayan art and culture was at its zenith. But during the British period, it took a nosedive. The British were rather pragmatic and matter of factly. They wasted no efforts on vain and inane ...
Today environment and ecology are the buzzwords. The pace of development and modernisation has endangered the ecological balance of Himalaya. When the British brought railways in India in the late eighteenth century, the Himalayan jungles were denuded of vast forests cover due to the demand for sleepers. When in early nineteenth century, the Britishers attempted to curb wanton tree-felling, there arose resentment among the people of Garhwal and Kumaon in ...
This book presents a folk cultural and anthropological study of the Himalayan Folk Literature including Nepali, Kashmiri and Dogri. The illiterate rural folks and tribals the world over have their own repertoire of oral literature including songs, ballads, tales, epics and dramas, peculiar to them. Yet it showed the levels of their wisdom and intellect, wit and humour, fiction and realism. Anthropologists during the British period noticed that some tribes were ...
This book presents a panoramic overview of politics and women empowerment in the Himalayan region and North-Eastern States, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It brings into sharp contrast the fragile Himalayan ecology, due to continuous seismic activities and movements in the plates tectonics, and the increasing militarisation, wars and armed conflicts in the hilly regions. The Chipko Movement launched initially by a few women brought into ...