The book entitled Geography of India is a comprehensive and detailed analysis of India’s physical setting, with study of resources in India. The book is divided into eleven chapters. In first chapter author introduces geography of India. In second chapter author discusses the physical setting of India including physiographic regions, drainage, water bodies, rivers systems and seasons of India. In third chapter resources of India are discussed and fourth chapter covers Indian agriculture. Fifth and sixth chapter deals with the Indian industrial policy, special economic zones, ecotourism and transport, trade and communication. History of the Indian social system, linguistic and ethnic diversities and demographic attributes are examined by author in seventh chapter while eighth chapter deals with urbanization in India. Chapter nine, ten and eleven deals with regional development and planning, political issues and other contemporary problems confronting India. This book has been especially designed for higher education and covers complete syllabus of UPSC Civil Services (Main) and States Public Service Commission examinations. This book may also serve as a comprehensive source of knowledge for graduate and postgraduate students of geography, at the same time it is also useful for teachers and researchers of Indian geography.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rupali Chatterjee
Rupali Chatterjee completed her Ph.D. in Geography at Clark University Massachuesetts. She has a Masters and M.Phil. in Geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, and a Bachelors in Geography from Loreto College, Calcutta. Dr. Chatterjee is interested in there broad strands of research on the economic, cultural and geopolitical implications of globalization in the first and the third world. She is particularly interested in the contradictions of globalization, capital-labour confrontations, class-identity negotiations, market-state reorganizations, and hegemony-counter-hegemonic contestations. She also investigates urban transformations, landscape changes, segregation, gettoization, and other forms of urban exclusions in the context of a Neoliberal entrepreneurial turn in urban governance all over the world. More specifically, she engages with justice and social movement literature to investigate class exclusion, othering, Islamophobia, religious fundsamentalism, identity politics. Theoretically, Chatterjee adopts a political economic approach and attempts a radical analysis of dispossession, marginalization, and exclusion. Presently, Dr. Chatterjee is teaching Geography of International Affairs, Elements of Cultural Geography, and Human Geography at Kamaraj University, Madurai.
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