Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania
Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Asia and Oceania

Author: Barbara A. West

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2010-05-19

Total Pages: 1025

ISBN-13: 1438119135

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Presents an alphabetical listing of information on the peoples of Asia and Oceania including origins, prehistory, history, culture, languages, and relationships to other cultures.

Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Development
Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Development

Author: Sukant Kumar Chaudhury

Publisher: Mittal Publications

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9788183241328

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"The present volume is an outcome of a national seminar organized by the Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society, Lucknow in October 1999"--Pref.

Backward Communities
Backward Communities

Author: Vijay Kumar Pant

Publisher: Gyan Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13:

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The book contains a number of painstaking articles by eminent authors and specialists which mirror the cultural identity, development and transformation of the backward communities in India. It consists of a vivid, descriptive analysis of the Indian statute and its provisions for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Author : Dr. B.S. bisht, eminent academic & research scholars : presently reader, department of sociology, govt. Mbpc college, nainital (u.p.).

Ecology and Man in the Himalayas
Ecology and Man in the Himalayas

Author: A. K. Kapoor

Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9788185880167

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The present volume emphasizes the importance of studying the structure and functioning of ecological systems and their mode of reaction on exposure to human intervention in the Himalayas. It stresses the impact of man on his environment and vice-versa, considered in the areas of biological and adaptative entity, as well as a social, cultural and economic being.