Author: Neelam Grover

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Published: 1985

Total Pages: 382

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Despite the agrarian character of our civilisation. Rural Settlement Geography is a recent addition to the rubric of geography in India. Most of the studies of Rural Settlements continue to be concerned with site, situation, distribution type form and pattern and very little work has been done by Indian and foreign goegraphers on the cultural landsccapes of different regions of India. The present work of Dr. Neelam Grover is a poineering study of the rural settlements in Northern Haryana region. The Jats, the yeoman cultivators of the plains; the Rajputs, the indolent, landwoners but not cultivators; the Gujars, the cattle-herders, raisers, and pastoralists par excellence, of the lower hills and thepiedmotn tracts, and the Kanets, the ancient farmers of the Himalayan origin now located in the Siwalik Hills form the universe of Dr. Grover's insightful investigation.