Civilizing Natures
Civilizing Natures

Author: Kavita Philip

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780813533612

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Annotation "An interdisciplinary exploration of science, nature, and race in colonial India."

Forest Trees of South India
Forest Trees of South India

Author: S.G. Neginhal IFS

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2020-03-13

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 1647606373

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• Contains descriptions of 988 Trees belonging to 87 families. • Has 568 pages, 255 black and white photographs and 193 line drawings of Trees. • Separate photographs provided for the Evergreen, Deciduous, Scrub and Mangrove Trees. • Sacred, Rare, Endemic, Ornamental, Fruit-bearing, Littoral Trees are tabulated. • Contains Maps of Forests of South India and Western and Eastern Ghats. • This book is brought out after a gap of more than a century after Bourdillon’s The Forest Trees of Travancore (1908). • The book is also equally useful wherever Tropical Evergreen, Deciduous and Scrub Forests exist in Peninsular India.

The Ends of the Earth
The Ends of the Earth

Author: Donald Worster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780521348461

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A unifying discussion of our increasingly integrated global economy, higher population levels and greater resource demands.

Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XV, Part 4
Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XV, Part 4

Author: Das Gupta

Publisher: Pearson Education India

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 1230

ISBN-13: 8131753751

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Science and Modern India: An Institutional History, c.1784-1947: Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Volume XV, Part 4 comprises chapters contributed by eminent scholars. It discusses the historical background of the establishment of science institutes that were established in pre-Independence India, and still exist, their functions and their present status. This volume discusses Indian science institutes that specialize in a particular field. It also delves into the area of engineering sciences.