Being a vast sub-continent, India is well-known for its charm and beauty. Culturally, its contribution is fairly rich not only in Asia, but all over the world. This vast nation is most significant for its pompous, colourful fairs and festivals. Vertually, each city, town and village celebrates its fair with much eclat in which men, women and young boys and girls participate in large numbers. Being a social gathering, normally an annual feature, the people are clad in colourful costumes and thus depicts a colourful and wonderful world in several regions, viz., from North to South, West to East, North-Eastern region and Central India. The book consisting of six comprehensive volumes covers all the 28 States and 7 Union Territories.
The author has weaved the theme in a very systematic manner, and has been careful to maintain religious and cultural identity. Thus these six volumes contain numerous facts and figures which are very useful for social scientists, teachers and researchers in India and abroad.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Krishan Gopal
Dr. Krishan Gopal, M.A., M.LIS., Ph.D., a practicing Librarian and Information Scientist, is currently working at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has made significant contributions to the Library Information Services in the area of research and development, documentation, etc. Dr. Gopal has a number of books to his credit which is the results of his research work of the last two decades and which have been accepted and acknowledged by the academic community. He has contributed by way of writing several articles and reviews of books in well-known journals as well as national newspapers. As a dedicated librarian, he is associated with professional organizations like the Indian Library Association and Ranganathan Research Centre. He has delivered a number of professional lectures nationwide.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.P. Bezbaruah
Madan Prasad Bezharuah, born on 1st December 1941 at Guwahati (Assam), is an IAS offcer of 1964 batch of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre. He has held many important assignments both in the Government of Assam and the Government of India. He was Secretary in Government of Assam in the Departments of Education, Health, Industries and Finance and Chairman of the Assam State Electricity Board. He was Home Secretary of Assam from January 1986 to August 1990. He served as a Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India and Principal Adviser in the Planning Commission. During 1990-94, he was Minister (Economic) in the High Commission of India, London. In this assignment, he was closely involved in the formation of the ‘Indo-British Partnership’. He was also a short-term Consultant to the National Development Planning Commission of Ghana. He was also Chairman of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) for 2000-2001. He has written two books, Indian Tourism: Beyond the Millennium and Frontiers of New Tourism, and a number of literary articles in vernacular magazines as well as articles on popular economic topics in regional English newspapers. He has contributed articles/reviews to – Contemporary South Asia, Oxford; and Economic and Political Weekly, Mumbai. He secured a first class M.A. degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and obtained the Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard University, USA.
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