This book, written as an introductory manual, provides students of geography with a comprehensive text which covers nearly all aspects of the field. Social geography brings within its purview such aspects as cultural, historical, economic, political, urban and population geography, all of which provide different dimensions of understanding society within geographical limits.
The book explores what entails the field, how the field originated and developed, and the reciprocating, continuous relationship between society and geography. It also looks into the issues that surround the field, including those of problems with segregation and discrimination within populations, socio-spatial variations in health, economics and politics, analysis of crime patterns etc., All of these are meant to serve an in-depth understanding of the field, and these are further aided by the coloured illustrations and up-to-date content on current trends and practices in the field.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amarjit Sinha
Dr. Amarjit Sinha obtained his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in geography. He has a brilliant academic record to his credit and he has been awarded with several prizes, including gold medals and scholarships. At present, he is working as a senior lecturer in geography. His area of research activity has been agricultural and environmental geography. He is engaged in research and teaching for more than one and half decades. He has published a number of research papers in various journals, proceeding and edited books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Subhah Mehtani
Dr. Subhah Mehtani, an assistant professor of physical geography has been acclaimed as a leading specialist of Indian physical geography. He has been a recipient of many awards for his academic excellence. As a keen analyst of geographical events, he denies to accept geography to be a holistic subject for pedagogic treatment but tries to see it as a very positivist subject for re-inventing it into a front-line discipline. As an erudite scholar and a prolific writer, he has credits. He is a widely traveled person both in India and abroad.
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