Sudhir Chandra
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Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the region. Influences which have influenced a botanist’s career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of information. From volume two onwards attempts have been made to provide brief biographical data on associated of person honoured, wherever possible.
A detailed index has been prepared eponyms of persons ...
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Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the region. Influences which have influenced a botanist’s career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of information. From volume two onwards attempts have been made to provide brief biographical data on associated of person honoured, wherever possible.
A detailed index has been prepared eponyms of persons ...
Foundations of Ethnobotany: 21st Century focusses on the role played by cultivated plants in changing the face of modern civilization It is important to assess the distribution of cultivated plants in time and space to understand how Ethnobotany can play a role in contributing to the progress and needs of human race in 21st century.
The present work represents Volume 11 of the projected 27 volumes. It is hoped to cover 18,000 to 20,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany.
Scope of the work:
Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the Region. Influences which have influenced a botanist's career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of information. From volume two onwards ...
The present work represents Volume 12 of the projected 27 volumes. It is hoped to cover 18,000 to 20,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany.
Scope of the work:
Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the Region. Influences which have influenced a botanist's career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of information. From volume two onwards ...
The present work represents Vol. 7 of the projected 20 volumes aimed for completion by 2014-2016. This book cover 15,000 to 18,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany.
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Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the Region. Influences which have influenced a botanist's career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of information. ...
This book provides a comprehensive framework for the study of Indian nationalism. Departing from uni-dimensional explanations of Indian nationalism - which see it as a product of caste, interest or power groups, personalities or elites - it presents an integrated analysis of the situation in which national consciousness emerged in India The author discusses topics like the background and legacy of 1857; social setting and reform movements; economic background and ...
The present work represents Vol. 4 of the projected 20 volumes aimed for completion by 2014-2016. This book cover 15,000 to 18,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany.Scope of the work: Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the Region. Influences which have influenced a botanist's career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of ...
The present work represents Vol. 5 of the projected 20 volumes aimed for completion by 2014-2016. This book cover 15,000 to 18,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany. Scope of the work: Generic names have been used as markers through which light has been thrown on the Botanical History of the Region. Influences which have influenced a botanist's career and the resultant influences on other botanists creating a web of ...
Generic names have been given after the names of persons, places, institutions, events or after the form, character and qualities, etc. of the organism. The present work deals with those plant genera whose names were given to commemorate persons. It is interesting that authors have honoured not only big names in science, teachers, helpers and explorers but also statesmen, benefactors, friends, administrators and all sundry kinds, including spouses; but they are ...
Because of the advantage of their universal presence, minute size and astonishingly rich physiological qualities, microbes play a key role in maintaining the biological equilibrium on earth and in their absence, life on the planet will be extinct. Different forms of interrelationship between plants and microbes have developed over million of years. On the extreme end, destruction of one by the other takes place. On the other hand, in the struggle for existence ...
Twenty seven articles of renowned scientists of national and international repute in this volume give an information about variety of aspects related to microbes with special reference to their role in the service of mankind. The volume contains authoritative informations about the microbial life in the past as well as application of the microbes in various spheres like agriculture, forestry, medicines, industry, biological control and wasteland development. ...
The central argument in this collection of essays by Sudhir Chandra, written over a period of thirty-five years, is that contemporary social consciousness is marked by an underlying ambivalence that resists analysis in terms of neat binary categories. Exploring the interplay of contradictory impulses and the confluence of apparently irreconcilable forces in the making of social and political phenomena, the essays deal with a wide range of issues concerning our ...
The present work represents Vol. 3 of projected 20 volumes aimed for completion by 2014-2016. This book cover 15,000 to 18,000 commemorative names in the total work covering all fields of botany. Vol. I (Publ. 1992) treated c. 400 entries. Vol. 2: Ba-Bl (Publ. 2005) covered 545 entries. This volume 3: Bo-Bz covers 462 entries. Information is sought under C. 60 heading for persons honoured in Generic Plant Names. Scope of the work: Generic names have been ...
Havan in Kumaun is performed on various auspicious occasions to seek blessings of the Gods. Various plants and plant products, which are being used by humans for day to day needs are used in Havan. In other word the burning of mixture of various aromatic herbs in the fire accompanied by invocation and offering to the Gods is known as Havan. Many 'Chants' are also based on the plants. In addition many plants are worshipped at the time of Havan according to the ...