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The steroidal drugs are some of the costliest and most important medicines used throughout the world. Dioscorea deltoidea is the main species exploited in India for the steroid industries. It is being felt that the natural stock of this important raw material is being exhausted due to over-exploitation from the forest regions of the northwest Himalayas. There are apprehensions that this important raw material may be completely lost to the industry if adequate ...
This is the first ever record of the algal flora of Ladakh--a mystic land, considered as the cold desert in the Himalayas. This is a very informative and useful contribution to the literature since nothing has been published so far on the algae of this region. Original camera lucida diagrams from the actual field specimens and microphotographs add to the value of this book. This book will be useful for the researchers, algologists, botanists, fishery scientists, ...
The steroidal drugs are some of the costliest and most important medicines used throughout the world. Dioscorea deltoidea is the main species exploited in India for the steroid industries. It is being felt that the natural stock of this important raw material is being exhausted due to over-exploitation from, the forest regions of the northwest Himalayas. There are apprehensions that this important raw material may be completely lost to the industry if adequate ...
Ever since its discovery in AD 1825, Kharavela's Hathigumpha Inscription has had a fascinating course. It is not a royal panegyric merely : It is an epitome of history, specially of the so-called dark period : Unveiling, as it does, the political and cultural conditions that prevailed in India during the three centuries before Christ's birth. And yet more significantly, it is the only hitherto-known document to tell the saga of its heroic author : The first ...