Rajasthan : Ecology, Culture and Society
Contents: Preface. I. Introduction: 1. The profile of Rajasthan/Veena Bhasin. 2. An overview of the population characteristics of Rajasthan/Promila Pandita, Shampa Nag and Veena Bhasin. 3. Demographic profile of Rajasthan/Sanjay Sharma. 4. Biology of the peoples of Rajasthan/Satish Kumar and M.K. Bhasin. II. Eco-system: management and impact: 5. Conservation and utilization of biodiversity in the Thar desert of India/Rajiv K. Sinha and Shweta Sinha. 6. Growth, flowering and fruiting behaviour of Lehsua (Cordia dichotoma Forst \'F\') in Rajasthan/J.P.S. Pundir, S.S. Verma and R. Porwal. 7. Disparities in agricultural and demographic features across agro-climatic regions in Rajasthan/K.A. Varghese. 8. Non-pesticidal management of yellow mosaic disease of moth [(Vigna aconitifolia) (Jacq.) Marechal]/Gajendra Singh Rathore. 9. Desertification and problem of delimitation of Rajputana desert during the medieval period/G.S.L. Devra. 10. Desert ecology/B.R. Chowdhary. 11. Food habits in semi-arid area of Rajasthan/Madhu B. Singh, K.R. Haldiya and J. Lakshminarayana. 12. Sericulture in Aravali hills of South Rajasthan/Arti Prasad and Jyoti P. Mathur. 13. Encroachment on commons by tribal population/B.C. Mehta, R.K. Menaria and R.N. Vyas. III. Ecology and health: 14. Implement of stone quarry workers: dust induced respiratory symptoms/S.L. Malik, Inuka Gakhar and Anju Swami. 15. Physical fitness and morphological growth among nomads of Rajasthan/Anu Prabha Sagar and M.K. Bhasin. 16. Nutritional status of Pre-School Meena children of Rajasthan/B. Kaur, L.P. Singh, Shewta Jain and M.K. Bhasin. 17. Ethnomedicinal plants of Central Aravallis of Rajasthan/K.C. Sharma and J.S. Asawa. 18. Indian system of medicine (ISM) and control of population growth in Rajasthan/K.S. Babu. 19. Utilisation of the health-care system in Rajasthan/L.P. Singh and S.D. Gupta. 20. Infant feeding practices in Rajasthan/Shashi Jain and Archana Maheshwari. 21. Health seeking behaviour among tribals of Rajasthan/L.P. Singh. 22. Tradition, tourism and AIDS in Rajasthan/R.C. Swarankar. IV. Ecology and development: 23. Human development in Rajasthan/B.C. Mehta and Alpna Kateja. 24. Perspectives of tribal development in Rajasthan/Prakash Chandra Mehta. 25. Tribal Rajasthan: planned and unplanned interventions/R.S. Mann and K. Mann. 26. Nature and extent of environmental hazards in slums/H.C. Upreti, Nandini Upreti and Kiran Misra. 27. Ethnocide: failure of reversing anti rural development/S.N. Sinha and B.L. Kotia. 28. Participatory irrigation management in Chambal command/S.N. Mundra and A.K. Garg. 29. Training of Rural Youth for Self Employment (TRYSEM)/Basant Mehta. 30. Rural development in Rajasthan/Shobha Golwalkar and Nalini Pancholy. V. Ecology and education: 31. Primary education of tribal children a myth or reality?/Sugan Sharma. 32. Educational development of rural girls in Rajasthan/Hemlata Talsera and Nalini Pancholy. VI. Ecology and society: 33. Bherun: the deity and demon/Meera Ahmad. 34. Some characteristics of a \'Herding caste\' of Rajasthan/Vinay Kumar Srivastava. 35. Renunciation in a pastoral community/Vinay Kumar Srivastava. Index.
"Rajasthan, which literally means the \'Lands of Rajas\', is one of the India\'s largest states. A study of the Rajasthan state as a whole or in part has so far received little attention from both social and biological scientists. To understand the heterogenous society of the state there is a need for a holistic approach involving environment, socio-cultural factors and biological variables; such is the attempt made in this volume which contains thirty five papers contributed by a cross-section of leading social, biological and environmental scientists and researchers having a first-hand experience of studying Rajasthan. The papers in the present volume are classified into the six major topics." (jacket)
