Art: regional traditions in South Orissa-an overview. 2.

The temple. 3.

Theme. 4.

Techniques and materials. 5.

Stylistic appraisal. 6.

Temple traditions. 7.

Conclusion. 8.

Bibliography. 9.

Glossary. 10.

Appendices: 1. List of temple sculptures.

2. List of wall paintings.

3. Temple records.

3. List of craft persons in Dharakote.

4. Important personalities of Dharakote at the beginning of the twentieth century (1909 A.

D.).

Index. "This publication for the first time focuses on a local art tradition in Orissa, vividly documented and substantiated with visuals.

The archaic cult of Jagannatha that upholds Oriya nationalism and claims to be the central focus of Orissan art and culture mirrors in this study with an extra tinge of local flavour—the essence of this book. The readers will discover a socio-religio-cultural structure supporting an art tradition in the Jagannatha temple of Dharakote, a remote princely town in South Orissa.

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The imagined spaces of empire/Nira Wickramasinghe. 3.

Coffee, disease, and the 'simultaneity of stories-so-far' in the highlands of 19 century Ceylon/James Duncan. 4.

The distance of a shout/Sharon Bell. 5.

Cartographic violence: engaging a Sinhala kind of geography/Benedikt Korf. 6.

Geography, spatial politics, and productions of the national in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost/Tariq Jazeel. 7.

Meeting places? Centre and periphery in civil society peace work/Camilla Orjuela. 8.

Rebuilding lives, undermining oppositions: spaces of war and peace in the north/Nihal Perera. 9.

Fractured sovereignty: the LTTE's state-building in an interconnected world/Oivind Fuglerud. 10.

Concluding thoughts/Cathrine Brun and Tariq Jazeel. Afterword/Pradeep Jeganathan.

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1. Introduction.

2. Socialism and nationalism.

3. Political evolution and economic experience: Central Asia under the Soviet Rule.

4. Religion: the determining factor in Central Asian identity.

5. Role of language in the identity: formation of Central Asia.

6. Role of ethnic factors in the development of multi-layered identities in Central Asia.

7. Perestroika, Glasnost and the change in Central Asia.

8. Quest for identity continues--conclusion.

Bibliography. Endnotes.

Index. "Marxist ideology and ethnic identities are usually counterpoised in the mainstream literature.

No where has the mutual dynamics and interactions between these two forces been more profound and innovative than in the Soviet Central Asia. This book offers a lucid explanation of this volatile and little understood phenomenon.

Dueling Isms concerns the events of Post-Soviet Central Asia and on the inter-ethnic relations in the Eurasian region, where initially after the Soviet disintegration there was a nationalising impulse that threatened the internal harmony of (less)

Introduction to geography of health/Nilofar Izhar. 2.

Progress in medical geography/Rais Akhtar and Nilofar Izhar. Environment and health problems: 3.

Environment and health in Kashmir during nineteenth century/Rais Akhtar. 4.

Drinking water and water-borne diseases in an urban environment : a case of Ahmedabad/Anjana Desai and Avantika Prajapati. 5.

Spatial and epidemiological aspects of Andaman Hemorrhagic Fever (AHF)/P.H.

Anand. 6.

Environmental health--a case study of arsenic poisoning in West Bengal/Jayati Hazra. 7.

Environment, nutrition and health: a case study of rural areas of Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir State/Rais Akhtar and Abdul Qayoom Khan. 8.

Spatial and epidemiological aspects of plague in India : a case study of Mamla village and Surat city/Harshit Sinha. 9.

Geographical distribution of Goitre in Kashmir Valley : a geomedical study/Ishtiaq A. Mayer.

10. Labrador Keratopathy: a literature review in geographical Ophthalmology/Micheline Frechete.

11. Impact of MDT on changing scenario of leprosy in Tamil Nadu/V (less)

Glossary. 1.

A brief history/Anima Bhattacharya. 2.

Physical background/Bimalendu Bhattacharya. 3.

Minerals and power/Bimalendu Bhattacharya. 4.

Agriculture/Bimalendu Bhattacharya. 5.

Animal husbandry/Bimalendu Bhattacharya. 6.

Forestry/Bimalendu Bhattacharya. 7.

Industry/Bimalendu Bhattacharya. 8.

Transport and tourism/Bimalendu Bhattacharya. 9.

Development strategy/Neil Fraser. 10.

Education and health/Neil Fraser. 11.

Architecture, art, religion and language/Anima Bhattacharya. 12.

The people and the settlements/Anima Bhattacharya. Bibliography.

Index. "Geography of Himalayan Kingdom—Bhutan deals with the quintessential physical and social (cultural) resources of the country in developmental perspective.

It begins with a brief history that unfolds recorded and conjectural facts about the past and also the development in recent times. This old Asian country being locked between two great neighbours, India and China, in the main has come to the limelight of global interest with the active effort of India.

Subsequent chapters highlight all-round economic progress through Five Year Plans, health and education policies and social characteristics of the people in rural and (less)

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2. The human ecology of disease.

3. Landscape epidemiology.

4. Developmental change and human health.

5. The biometeorology of health status.

6. The pollution syndrome.

7. Geographies of disease in economically developed areas.

8. Disease diffusion in space.

9. Health care delivery systems worldwide.

10. Distribution of health care resources.

11. Accessibility, utilization, and health services planning.

12. Data, measures, and methodologies.

13. Scale, spatial analysis, and geographic visualization.

Concluding words. Index.

About the authors. "This essential text surveys the perspectives, methodologies, and theories that geographers use to address the subject of human health and diseases.

Wide ranging and international in scope, the volume synthesizes knowledge from across the social, physical, and biological sciences. Coverage includes the cultural ecology of disease; landscape epidemiology; developmental change and human health; biometeorology; disease ecology and spatial analysis in developed countries; spatial interaction in disease diffusion; health care resources, delivery systems, and planning; (less)

The Indian sub-continent : geographical outlook: 1. Introduction.

2. Peninsular India.

3. The Mountain ranges in the peninsula.

4. The geological history.

II. Climate: 1.

Meteorological seasons. 2.

Rainfall. 3.

The south-west monsoon. 4.

The monsoon mechanism. 5.

The monsoon phenomenon. 6.

Post-monsoon season. 7.

Cyclones and depressions. 8.

Eastern depressions. 9.

Western disturbances. 10.

The dry season. 11.

Study of climatic factors. 12.

Diversity of climates. 13.

Climatic classification of India. 14.

Climatic variability. 15.

Effect of forests on climate. 16.

Combating droughts and desertification. 17.

Concluding remarks. III.

Palaeogeography and palaeoclimates: 1. The azoic era (archaeozoic).

2. The proterozoic era (Upper pre-Cambrian).

3. The palaeozoic and the earlier plant-life.

4. The Devonian period and the psilophytates.

5. The Gondwana system.

6. The Jurassic period (The age of Cycads).

7. Cretaceous-eocene and the angiosperms.

8. Causes of climatic change.

9. Quaternary and the role of palynology in reconstructing the vegetational history (less)

Scheme of transliteration. Mode of citations.

Abbreviations. Introduction.

1. The universe.

2. Physiography.

3. Biotic and mineral resources.

4. Agriculture.

5. Transport and communication.

6. Settlements.

7. Cultural geography.

8. Regional geography.

9. Conclusion.

Bibliography. Index.

"Historical Geography of India is a major challenge to Indian geographers. It is still in embryonic stage.

It is desirable to make Indian geography more Indian in its spirit and context, the research work, in ancient Indian literature from the view point of geography is imperative. This incentive and inspiration propelled the author to undertake this work.

This volume is one among a very few books dealing with the geographical ideas of ancient Indian people during the Ramayanic age. This may stand better in comparison with its predecessors in the sense that it brings forth comprehensively the relevant and interesting contents expounded specially with a geographer's point of view.

The geographical facts have been traced out (less)