Uprooting geographic thoughts in India : toward ecology and culture in 21st century

Uprooting geographic thoughts in India : toward ecology and culture in 21st century / by Rana P.B. Singh ; with three essays by Oskar Spate, David Sopher, and A.B. Mukerji ; foreword by David Simon.

Under the cultural turn and transformation the new intellectual discourses started in the 21st century to search the roots, have cross-cultural comparison and to see how the old traditions be used in the contemporary worldviews. This book is the first attempt dealing with roots of Indian geographica...

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Main Author: Singh, Rana P. B.
Other Authors: Spate, Oskar, Sopher, David, Mukerji, A. B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
Series:Planet Earth & cultural understanding.
Subjects:
Cultural geography > India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Cultural geography
India
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Summary:Under the cultural turn and transformation the new intellectual discourses started in the 21st century to search the roots, have cross-cultural comparison and to see how the old traditions be used in the contemporary worldviews. This book is the first attempt dealing with roots of Indian geographical thoughts since its beginning in 1920. It emphasises identity of India and Indianness and consciousness among dweller geographers in India, development and status of geography and its recent trend ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443807944
144380794X
1282191616
9781282191617
9786612191619
6612191619
Language:English.

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