The Territories and States of India 2024
The Territories and States of India 2024

Author: Europa Publications

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-02-22

Total Pages: 563

ISBN-13: 1040024394

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This invaluable collection of information provides an in-depth guide to the regional dimension of the politics and economy of this vast and complex country. Incomparable in its coverage, which includes a detailed chronology for India as a whole, a bibliography, contact details for leading officials, and an historical account and economic survey for each of the twenty-nine states and seven territories, it supplies the reader with a more complete understanding of India as a whole.

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Publisher: Disha Publications

Published:

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9392552017

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Gujarat, Diu-Daman aur Dadra-Nagar Haveli ki Bhashayen
Gujarat, Diu-Daman aur Dadra-Nagar Haveli ki Bhashayen

Author: G. N. Devy

Publisher: Bharatiya Bhasha Lok Sarvekshan

Published: 2023-09-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789354423888

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Though Gujarati is spoken by the majority, there are a number of languages that make up the linguistic matrix. This volume of the People's Linguistic Survey of India,

Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India
Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities in India

Author: Thomas Benedikter

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 3643102313

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India not only is concerned with inevitable multilingualism, but also with the rights of many millions of speakers of minority languages. As the political and cultural context privileges some major languages, linguistic minorities often feel discriminated against by the current language policy of the Union and the States. They experience on a daily basis that their mother tongues are deemed worthless dialects that have little utility in modern life. Many such languages have definitively disappeared, and several more are on the brink of extinction. Is this the inevitable price to be paid for economic modernization, cultural homogenisation and the multilingual fabric of India's society at large? This book is an effort to map India's linguistic minorities and to assess the language policy towards these communities. The author, a senior researcher of the EURAC (South Tyrol, Italy), assuming linguistic rights as a component of fundamental human rights, codified in a number of international covenants and in the Indian Constitution, provides an appraisal of the extent to which language rights are respected in India's multilingual reality, which takes into consideration the experiences of minority language protection in other regions.

An Introduction to the Social Geography of India
An Introduction to the Social Geography of India

Author: Asif Ali

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-04-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1000853616

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This book discusses the significance of social geography, a multidimensional sub-discipline of georgraphy encompassing social health, social security and social ethos. It presents the socio-spatial dynamics of the population in India through an understanding of the various issues related to migration, urbanisation, unemployment, poverty and public health. With a thorough analysis of various social indicators relating to health, education, income and employment, the volume presents a detailed picture of the social geography of India. It discusses in detail, The origin, nature and scope of social geography, its relations with other social sciences and applications The nature and importance of social well-being along with welfare geography and the role of welfare state in ensuring social well-being The population of India and its attributes The status and spatial patterns of various social indicators relating to health, education and income and employment The composite indices which aggregate several social indicators such as the Human Development Index, Multidimensional Poverty Index and Sustainable Developmental Goals Index in the context of India. This comprehensive book will be useful for students, researchers and teachers of social geography, human geography, population geography, demography and sociology. The book can also be used by students preparing for exams like civil services, UPSC, PSC and other competitive exams.

Languages of the Himalayas
Languages of the Himalayas

Author: George van Driem

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-09-12

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9004514910

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The survey work Languages of the Himalayas provides a bird's eye view of Himalayan languages and language communities. It also constitutes a primary source for much new, hitherto unpublished data on several languages. The demographic mosaic of the Himalayas today is viewed in a historical and comparative linguistic perspective. The reader will find an outline of the historical and prehistorical developments that have determined the modern ethnolinguistic composition of the Himalayan region, involving various independent linguistics stocks or language families. Maps illustrate the distribution of language communities and trace the routes of ancient migrations. There is an illuminating discussion of grammatical features found in Himalayan languages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004103900).