Overview
- Delivers a comprehensive account of the physical environment of North-East India, its people, resources and economy
- Offers an extensive look at the process of colonisation by early settlers, their transformation, the arrival of different ethnic groups and the evolution of the contemporary society
- Treats all aspects of the economy of the region: agriculture, land use, mineral industry, transport and trade
Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (AAHER)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Outline
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The Land
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The People
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The Economy
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Keywords
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The authors originally intended this volume to be a text for college students to introduce them to research on Northeast India. … It also contains a wealth of statistical data on population, linguistics, migration, ecology, agriculture, and industry. Useful as a college text and as a valuable reference tool for researchers of Northeast India. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (P. P. Barua, Choice, Vol. 51 (10), June, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Prof. Dr. Kamal Ramprit Dikshit is a former Professor of Geography of the University of Pune, India (now retired). He has written several books, such as "Geography of Gujarat" (1970), "Contributions to Indian Geography: Geomorphology" (1983), "Maharashtra in Maps" (1986) and "Environment, Forest Ecology and Man in the Western Ghats: The Case of Mahabaleshwar Plateau" (1993) as well as many research papers.
Jutta K. Dikshit has been teaching geography at the Department of Geography, University of Pune, Pune. She studied geography and German language and literature at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany), and obtained her doctoral degree from the Sorbonne, Paris. Before coming to India, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Saarbrücken for a number of years. Her research papers are mainly in the field of physical geography. She is the editor of the book "The Urban Fringe of Indian Cities" (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: North-East India: Land, People and Economy
Authors: K.R. Dikshit, Jutta K Dikshit
Series Title: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7055-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7054-6Published: 04 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0037-3Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7055-3Published: 21 October 2013
Series ISSN: 1879-7180
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIII, 800
Number of Illustrations: 62 b/w illustrations, 65 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geography, Structural Geology, Anthropology, History, general, Environmental Economics