40 books
Mass media are the techniques or means of communication by which visual and/or auditory messages are transmitted directly to the audience. Mass media now become a necessity for bridging the gap among the people of the world as also bringing them together under one global village as required by the phenomenon of globalization, commonly accepted by the world community. The roles fulfilled by mass media in general are directed toward realizing the changes in the ...
It is significant to note that Indian Diasporic literature with its presence all over the world is one of the most talked about and discussed topics in world literature today. In fact, displaced communities and their settlement elsewhere play a dominant role in it. As such, from indentured labourers to educated people aspiring for a better life in other countries, all comes under the purview of Indian Diasporic literature. In this book an attempt is made to ...
Modern Mineral Exploration Practices andTechniques ’is an outcome of the vast experience of Late Shri S. C. Ghoshal, an Economic and Mining Geologist of high repute, with an astounding 300 mineral deposit appraisals covering a variety of minerals over a span of 35 years with the Indian Bureau of Mines, to his credit.
The book discusses the various stages involved in the exploration of a mineral prospect, right from its identification up to maturing it into ...
This book titled as “Challenges In Rice Marketing In Indian Agriculture” is a research piece of work published as a reference book with a mission to facilitate the research scholars and the students of M.Com, MBA, M.A. (Eco),B.sc (Agricul.Eco.) and marketing professionals who are interested to know about the Agricultural Marketing particularly Rice Marketing scenario of a rice bowl area in Indian context. The author Dr. Prabhkar Gupta is a ...
This book is intended to be a popular guide on medicinal plants-their identification, classification, nomenclature, and their uses. Designed primarily for Indian scholars, this book focuses on the medicinal flora found in the Raigad district of Maharashtra. It combines the traditional uses and descriptions of medicinal plant species that are used regularly by the local inhabitants and the tribal communities. Raigad district with its varied physiographic, climatic ...
Ageing is a normal, inevitable and universal phenomenon, and is subjected to the law of natural progress. Now the phenomenon of ageing has assumed increasing importance due to the changes in the age structure reflected in the growing life expectancy. The change of population from high to low fertility and mortality rates as reflected in demographic transition has created a global trend towards an increasing proportion of older people, thus contributing a larger ...
Literature act as a radical tool for providing deep meaningful understanding of the problems, conflicts and struggles of the society. The feminist vision of social transformation and change has been observed in the textual creativity and in the writings of women writers of the subcontinent. With the Booker Prize to Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manju Kapur and others; women writers' creativity has received international recognition.
Women writers have written ...
Novels of Manju Kapur-A Critical Study is a collection of scholarly research papers and articles, presenting an analysis of Kapur’s novels in order to assess and evaluate her place in the contemporary Indian English Fiction. Kapur shot into fame with her debut novel Difficult Daughters (1998) . The novel won for her the prestigious Commonwealth Eurasia Region Award for the best debut novel of 1999. After that she brought out A Married Woman (2002), ...
Women's questions has attracted the attention of social scientists who find plenty of areas still unexplored for researchers. The role and status of tribal women in society can best be understood within the cultural content by the operation of various historical , political, economic and educational factors moulding the society within the frame-work of time & space. There are gradual changes in the status of tribal women as a result of modernisation. Even ...
The family Cyperaceae (commonly known as sedge family) is taxonomically one of the most intricate families. It is represented by about 70 -80 genera and about 4000 species distributed throughout the world. India represents 28 genera and 500 species while the study regions are represented by about 16 genera and about 322 species and 84 infraspecific taxa. The studies in Cyperaceae did not progress well as compared to those in grasses and is neglected throughout ...
This book aims to serve as a detailed guide for the study and identification of grasses, sedges and monocot which are integral part of crop production and Botany in present scenario. This book covers an in depth study on grasses and grass like plants which are widely distributed on fields and barren lands. A numbers of grasses studied in crop fields and forest areas have been included in this book with line diagrams and description for identifications, which will ...
Millets is a collective name referring to a number of small-seeded annual grasses that are cultivated as grain crops, primarily on marginal lands in dry areas in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions. The most important species are pearl millet, sorghum and finger millet. Other small millet species (kodo millet, little millet, barnyard millet and foxtail millet, proso millet, fonios and teff etc.) are locally important food grains restricted to smaller ...
This compendium of 31 papers attempts to explore and reinterpret the works of major partition fiction and films to critically understand the trauma of separation during the turbulent times of Partition of India. It focuses on the partition violence, communal identity, plight of women, scourge of riots and communal disharmony, dislocation and disintegration, and atrocities on women.
The novels and films studied in this book include Train to Pakistan, Ice Candy ...
The present seminar proceeding entitled “Female Foeticide in India: A Moving Trend” brings out several research papers (in English , Hindi & Marathi Languages) deeply focusing on varied aspects of the problem of female foeticide in India. It encompasses some papers which discuss the phenomenon of female foeticide vis-a-vis its socio-cultural contexts, that is, attributing the problem to certain socio-cultural contexts and economic conditions ...