ADVANCE GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA (Theory)

Historical Perspective of Indian Society: Racial, linguistic and ethnic diversities.

• Major tribal areas and their problems.
• Growth, distribution and density of population;
• Demographic attributes: sex-ratio, age structure, literacy rate, work-force, dependency ratio, longevity; migration (inter-regional, intra- regional and international) and associated problems;
• Population problems and policies; Health indicators.

• Types, patterns and morphology of rural settlements;
• Morphology of Indian cities;
• Functional classification of Indian cities;
• Conurbations and metropolitan regions; urban sprawl;
• Slums and associated problems;
• Town planning; Problems of urbanization and remedies

• Road, railway, waterway, airway and pipeline networks and their complementary roles in regional development
• Growing importance of ports on national and foreign trade
• Trade balance
• Trade Policy
• Export processing zones
• Developments in communication and information technology and their impacts on economy and society
• Indian space Programme

·         Geographical basis of Indian federalism;

·         State reorganization;

·         Emergence of new states;

·         Regional consciousness and interstate issues;

·         Cross border terrorism;

·         India's role in world affairs;

Geopolitics of South Asia and Indian Ocean realm.

• Environmental hazards: landslides, earthquakes, Tsunamis, floods and droughts, epidemics.
• Issues relating to environmental pollution and degradation
• Linkage of rivers.
• Globalization and Indian economy. Students will acknowledge with the types of hazards which occurring all over India. As well study the different perspective of globalization in India.