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At Sikri, Sheikh Chishti blessed Akbar that he would have three sons. In rejoice and gratitude Akbar named the first born as Sultan Salim and made Sikri his capital. Salim succeeded him and was known as Jahangir. Fatehpur Sikri unshered in a new beginning in the lifestyle of the Mughals. Tent encampments were replaced by permanent structures. It was developed into a ‘courtly city’, a form between a camp and an imperial city. Fatehpur Sikri reflects Akbar’s ...
The present book has examined the role of foreign investments in economic development of the developing countries especially that of India. It makes an interesting study of the world pattern of foreign investment flows, region-wise and individual country-wise. The conclusion is inescapable that India is now the focal point of foreign investors. Nevertheless, the analysis has been extended to an important dimension of actual utilisation of the foreign investments. ...
Aquarium-fish keeping is more popular today than it ever was before. At present, while it still enjoys its indoor value as an absorbing pastime or just a personal hobby, it has developed beyond a long period of infancy into an organised industry which supports education, research and trade. No success can be achieved in aquarium keeping unless the aquarium is well planned and properly stocked. This requires a certain degree of scientific approach with regard to ...
If our society is assumed as hardware, then education must be considered as its software. Both are inter-related, their changes also influence each other. Now the world has come under the grip of a new phenomenal technology, called Information Technology (IT) or Information Communication Technology (ITC). Therefore, the influence of IT in all dimensions and domains of education is obvious. Application of IT is receiving increasing attention from researchers, ...
"A deep concern about the rights and status of women and the progress of the nation which is integrally linked with advancement of women have underpinned the Indian political thinking. However it is necessary to transform the de-jure equality guaranteed by India's constitution and legal edifice into de-facto equality. The long and lengthy procedures involved in the welfare schemes for women combined with centuries of social conditioning regarding the ...
Drip irrigation is an advanced method of irrigation accepted in the developing countries. In Israel, a large area is now irrigated through drip. In India, water scarcity has compelled the farmers to go in for micro-irrigation systems like sprinkler and drip irrigation. The potential for the drip irrigation system is estimated to be 10.5 million ha. The present coverage under drip system is only 0.91 m ha in different states for all the crops including flowers, ...
The book "Managerial Rainbow" is designed for management students, planners, practicing business executives, researchers and academicians who are interested in global perspective of business and behavioural sciences including marketing and human resource development. The primary focus is on the emerging conceptual and applied dimensions of management in the context of global scenario. With this objective in view, the book has been divided into seven ...
Catfishes currently are the most sought after group of fishes by researchers drawn from very diverse areas, conventional ones like systematics, palaeontology, zoogeography, anatomy and biology, ecology, behaviour, genetics, gastronomy, fisheries and aquaculture as well as modern R&D like plasma chemistry, cloning, immunocytochemistry and the like. No investigation on catfish is rewarding, be it way area of research, unless their life style and adaptation ...
Social change is inevitable in a living civilization. This is an important aspect of the process of the growth of Indian social system where many lawyers of social groups and sub-groups have been living together for centuries. The present monograph makes a study of some perceptive changes in the social position of the most oppressed class perceived by Mulk Raj Anand, the celebrated Anglo Indian writer of the twentieth century. The position of a number of groups ...