Isotopic age of Peninsular and extra-Peninsular India: a review: 1. General.

2. Southern Granulite Terrain.

3. Karnataka/Dharwar Craton.

4. Transition zone.

5. Eastern Ghats Mobile Belt.

6. Eastern Indian Craton.

7. Central Indian Precambrian.

8. Western and Northern Indian Precambrian.

9. Purana Basins.

10. Basic Dykes.

11. Deccan traps.

12. Himalaya.

13. Lesser Himalaya.

14. Higher Himalaya.

15. Trans-Himalaya.

Discussion. Acknowledgements.

II. Isotopic age database of Peninsular and Extra-Peninsular India: 1.

Tamil Nadu. 2.

Kerala. 3.

Karnataka. 4.

Andhra Pradesh. 5.

Orissa. 6.

Bihar and West Bengal. 7.

Madhya Pradesh. 8.

Maharashtra. 9.

Western Region. 10.

Western and Northern Indian Precambrian. 11.

Lesser Himalaya. 12.

Higher Himalaya. 13.

Trans-Himalaya. References.

Locality index. Appendix: Isotope Map of India.

From the Foreword: "This special publication is the first attempt by GSI on detailed computerized geochronological database with details of analytical parameters of each age data on the entire rocks of India including both the (less)

Theory, Selection and Design of Air Pollution Control Equipment: 1. State of world environment.

2. State of technology.

3. Emission standards and regulations.

4. Selection of control equipment.

5. Gas-particle interaction.

6. Mechanical dust collector.

7. Fabric filter.

8. Electrostatic precipitator.

9. Scrubber.

10. Some useful definitions, formulae and conversion chart.

Vol. II.

Applications of Air Pollution Control Equipment: 1. Applications of APC equipment in industries.

2. Flue gas desulphurisation and denitrification.

3. Retrofitting.

4. Gas conditioning.

5. System design.

6. Emission measurement.

7. Design of chimney.

8. Design of dust handling equipment.

9. Some aspects of structural design of dust collectors.

10. Fan.

11. Handling explosive dusts.

12. Costing of APC equipment.

"Air Pollution Control is largely based on the practical experience gathered from the actual installations over the years. This book in two volumes attempts to share the practical knowledge and long experience of the author in the field of (less)

The elephantine ordeal. 2.

Early days. 3.

Tigers and wild dogs. 4.

The saintly tiger and poachers-I; The saintly tiger and poachers-II; The saintly tiger and poachers-III. 5.

The business of poaching-I; The business of poaching-II; The business of poaching-III. 6.

The sugarcane tiger. 7.

Conclusion. Select bibliography.

Scientific names of the species of principal animals, birds and reptiles. Index.

This book is a personal account of adventures experienced by Dr. Rahul Shukla, scion of a feudal family, where tiger hunting has been handed down from generation to generation.

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As areas of specific concern for India, Ray lists population growth, the quality and stock of human resources, access to energy resources, and agrarian reform. But beyond these more immediate concerns his study is concerned with fundamental questions of good governance in India (less)

1. Medical studies.

2. Training in Calcutta.

3. Experiences in North Wales.

4. Experiences in England.

5. Back in India.

"A Doctor's Memoirs--An Inside Story of the medical Profession has been written from the wide personal experiences of the author from his student days in the Medical College, his training period as a junior doctor and his professional life later. Dr.

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Acknowledgments. Index.

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Introduction. 1.

Indian medicine across the centuries: i. From the origins to the Birth of Ayurveda.

ii. The period of the Great Medical Corpuses.

iii. The development of Ayurveda.

iv. Siddha Medicine and Greco-Arab medicine.

v. The spread of Ayurveda.

vi. Western medicine and Indian medicine.

vii. The revival of traditional medicines.

2. The conceptual foundations of Indian medicine: i.

Philosophical foundations of Ayurveda. ii.

Knowledge of anatomy. iii.

Representations of the vital functions. iv.

Psychological conceptions. v.

Diseases and pathology. vi.

Diagnosis and prognosis. 3.

Preventive medicine: i. Hygiene and life style.

ii. Yoga and remedial gymnastics.

iii. Food and dietetics.

iv. Tonics and Aphrodisiacs.

v. The preventive application of massages.

4. Therapeutic methods: i.

The "Pancakarman" Therapy. ii.

Drugs of natural origin. iii.

Surgical treatments. iv.

Psychiatric treatments. v.

Chemical Therapy. vi.

Diet. vii.

Popular practices. viii.

Veterinary medicine. 5.

The medical profession: i. The medical establishment (less)

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Culture fishery: 1. Aquaculture in freshwater impoundment.

2. Aquaculture in brackishwater impoundment.

II. Capture fishery: 3.

The Kulti Estuary. 4.

The Bhagirathi Hooghly Estuary. III.

The Sundarban Delta: 1. Introduction.

2. Biological characteristics of the main Sundarbans.

3. Common fish and crustaceans of the Mangrove.

4. The Estuarine fishery of Sundarban Delta : its trend.

5. Analysis of fish landing from the Hooghly-Malta Estuarine system of Sundarban Delta during 1966-67 to 1970-71.

6. The Hilsa fishery.

7. Winter migratory Bagnet fishery of the Hooghly Estuary.

8. The gear.

References. IV.

Past and present of Sundarban Delta: 1. Kolkata Wetland - a nightmare of the past.

2. Canals of Kolkata - their impact on the Sundarbans ecosystem.

3. Metamorphosis of Sundarban Delta - its impact on aquatic life.

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Introduction/Chittabrata Palit and Achintya Kumar Dutta. Epidemics, policy and practice: 2.

Epidemics and empire: a critique of public health policy in colonial India/Chittabrata Palit. 3.

Epidemics, empire and public health/Amiya Kumar Hati. 4.

Cholera: changing perceptions of its causality in the last two centuries--a cursory appraisal/Dhrub Kumar Singh. 5.

Calcutta plague: epidemic, colonial intervention and indigenous society 1898-1900/Amal Das. 6.

Coping with Leprosy in 19 century colonial Bombay/Simkie Sarkar. 7.

Malaria in the countryside in colonial Bengal: some demographic observations/Arabinda Samanta. 8.

Kala-azar epidemics in India/Kaushik Roy Choudhury and Syamal Roy. 9.

Upendranath Brahmachari in Pursuit of Kala-Azar/Achintya Kumar Dutta. Western Medicine: 10.

Emergence of Western Medical Institutions in India 1822-1911/Anil Kumar. 11.

'Colony' under a microscope: the medical works of W.M.

Haffkine/Deepak Kumar. Indigenous Medicine: 12.

Evolution of Ayurveda through the ages/Brahmananda Gupta. 13.

Travails of traditional medicine/Subrata Pahari. Gender and Health: 14.

Indigenous approach to delivery deaths in colonial Bengal/Mousumi (less)

Policies of food security: an agenda for change/Madhura Swaminathan. 2.

Globalization-yet another threat to food security and regional parity in India/Ashok Kumar Maiti and Subhendu Chakrabarti. 3.

Food security and agricultural growth: prospects for the North-Eastern region/M.P.

Bezbaruah. 4.

Food insecurity in India with special reference to North Eastern region/P.M.

Passah. 5.

Food security of North East India for twenty-first century/S.N.

Goswami, B.K.

Sarma and S.B.

Singh. 6.

Agriculture should get high priority in the North-East/V.S.

Mahajan. 7.

Determinants of production and instability of rice in North Eastern states of India/S.B.

Singh, K.K.

Datta and Kh. B.

Singh. 8.

The 21 century and the emerging scenario and issues of social science research in North-East India/K. Alam.

9. Some issues of social science research in North-East India in the 21 century/S.

B. Chakrabarti.

10. Social science research in the N.

E. region in the 21 century/B.

B. Kumar.

11. Identifying researchable issues for 21 century N.

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