Diseases of Vegetable Crops and Their Integrated Management: A Colour Hand Book

Shri A.K. Sharma is an archaeologist of repute. He is internationally known for his original contributions in the field of archaeology and anthropology. During thirty three years of his hectic career, in different capacities in the Archaeological Survey of India he explored and excavated a number of sites throughout the length and breadth of the country, particularly in remote and inaccessible areas of North-East India, Jammu Kashmir and Lakshadweep. To his credit goes the discovery and excavation of the biggest Stone Age site Anangpur, near Delhi, the biggest prehistoric cave of Kachagad in Maharashtra, the sprawling nucleus megalithic site in Chhattisgarh, unique Neolithic site of Gufkral in Kashmir Valley, early historic sites of Sekta in Manipur and Vadagokugiri in Garo Hills of Meghalaya. He is also known for the discovery of horse bones of domesticated horse in Harappan context which have been internationally acknowledged and has changed the whole theory about Aryans and Vaidic period. He worked at Kalibangan excavation from 1961 to 1969. He has to his credit more than 50 published research papers on anthropology, archaeozoology, prehistory and other aspects of archaeology. Presently he is working as Senior Fellow of Indian Council of Historical Research on his project “Megaliths of Chhattisgarh including Bastar:. He is also directing the excavations at Mansar near Nagpur.

A.K. Singh obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. degree in History of Art from the Banaras Hindu University. He has awarded Senior Research Fellowship by the U.G.C.

R.K. Mishra is currently Professor and Dean (Research) at the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. He is a graduate of International Management Programme, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has research stints at London Business School and Maison Des Sciences De L' Hommes, Paris. He has taught at the University of Bradford (UK) and was a visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L'Hommes, Paris. He was on action research at North-West Province of South Africa at the invitation of DFID, UK. He has undertaken many institutional researches and consultancy projects on various aspects of public enterprises, public systems and finance. He has been a Management Consultant to several national and international organizations including PWC and Adam Smith Commission, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Commonwealth Secretariat, International Civil Service Consortium, State Bureaus of Public Enterprises, Financial Institutions and Banks. He is Vice-President (Asia), International Association of Schools and Institutes in Administration, Brussels. He is Honorary Member on the Board of Research, American Biographical Institute, USA. He is special invitee to the Board of Governors, Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. He has several international and national publications.