V C Srivastava
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The volumes of the Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture (Phispc) aim at discovering the main aspects of India’s heritage and present them in an interrelated way. These volumes, in spite of their unitary look, recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The Project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ideologically ...
The Puranas are invaluable and significant sources of Indian culture. The Pauranic tradition preserves different aspects of Indian religions practies, philosophical musings, literary developments and cultural expressions. The development of the Puranas had been simultaneous with the development of Indian cultural. They may be regarded as the ever-developing encyclopaedia of Indian culture.
The Sun-worship is an ancient tradition of India which originated in the ...
For centuries rice yields in the tropics have been rather static. Rice is essentially a smallholder’s crop grown mainly for subsistence. The possibilities for further area expansion have now reached their limit in most rice growing countries at the time when population growth and, thus, the demand for more rice, is at its peak. For a considerable time researchers have focused a significant portion of agricultural research on rice with emphasis on ...
Global population was only one billion in 1800 AD, doubled by 1930 and reached three billion mark by 1960. However, it took only 39 years to double itself again by 1999, when it reached to six billion mark. It is estimated that by 2100 it will again double itself to twelve billion mark. Most of the future increase in population will be in developing countries of Asia. Africa and Latin America, where more and more area under agricultural production systems have ...