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The records of the Dutch East India Company are recognized to be a major source material on Indian history for the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. The company established in 1602, was the biggest trading entity of its time. It carried extensive trading operations in India for nearly two hundred years. The letters, reports and other documents available in the company's archives contain an enormous amount of detail on a variety of subjects. While ...
The spectacular rise in world trade following the great discoveries of the closing years of the fifteenth century had important implications for each of the major segments of the newly emerging early modern international economy. As far as Asia was concerned, the commercial operations of the European corporate enterprises as well as private traders in the Indian Ocean region between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries had far reaching consequences for the ...
Mango -- has been mesmerising the populace since long. Every segment of the society irrespective of the temporal and territorial boundaries has contributed immensely towards the spread, cultivation and improvement of this fruit. Perhaps no other fruit has appropriated the enormous care and praise like mango. The present book -- a compilation of press gleanings spanning a period of thirty years, besides an introductory note provides a panoramic view pertaining to ...
The book indicates about raise in groundwater, soil erosion, runoff reduction, surface water generation, damage to soil and water conservation structures, productivity of crops; employment, income, benefit-cost ratio, perception of farmers on different problems etc. between watershed and non-watershed areas at each location under different agro-climatic conditions in India. Recommendations were made based on results, observations made during tours and discussion ...
This book is mainly dealing with the impact evaluation of watershed management programmes in different rainfed AERs of India. Various bio-physical and socio-economic indicators were taken into consideration while evaluating the watersheds implemented through different agencies, like, NWDPRA, MoRD, ICAR/SAUs, International donors and NGOs in the country. The book will be useful for the policy makers, planners, researchers, extension workers and students involved ...
India and South-East Asia have a long history of intensive contacts via the Bay of Bengal. While commerce was probably the most dominant province of such interaction, it also embraced politics, culture and religion. This collection of essays seeks to explore some of these links in the early modern period by looking at the Bay of Bengal region as a unity rather than simply as an agglomeration of distinct political entities. In the domain of commerce, an important ...