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In agriculture economy of India, oilseeds stand next only to foodgrains in acreage, production and value. India witnessed 26.95% (21.42 million tonnes) increase in production during VIII plan over VII plan (16.92 million tonnes). This increase in production was contributed both by increase in area as also yield level. The country will be required to produce 27 million tonnes of oilseeds by the end of IX plan as against the present production level of 21.5 million ...
The Indus Valley Civilization, known also as the Harappan, is one of the most important civilizations of antiquity. Ever since its discovery by Indian and British archaeologists beginning in 1921, this civilization has been extensively studied by archaeologists, historians, anthropologists and of course, Indologists. Of particular interest are several thousand seals found at these sites containing both writing and images on them. These have been objects of ...
Biotechnological potential of microorganism and the implications of their metabolism as well as their products in all spheres of human civilization such as agriculture, industry and medicine, have been of tremendous importance in recent times. This book "Concepts in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology" is the first of its kind which embodies....chapters giving a comprehensive account of microbial taxonomy, ecology, genetics and molecular biology ...
The book presents selections from Dr. Motilal Jarwani’s somewhat vast body of literary writings – short stories, poems and essays. These are some of his representative texts. Of the three parts, the book publishes in its first part some of his award-winning short stories and an extract from his award-winning short novel. His fiction is widely discussed, anthologized, translated into several national and international languages. Its second part collects some ...
Not a single-minded book, it is a collection of Dr. Jotwani's articles dealing with the Sindhis as a community, living in India and abroad, in both the pre-and-post-Partition times. These articles more or less present a connected account of the Sindhis through the centuries. Shri L.K. Advani writes in his foreword, "I heartily compliment Dr. Jotwani on his decision to publish some of his numerous articles he has written about Sindh, sindhi literature and the ...