Practising Cultural Geographies : Essays in Honour of Rana P. B. Singh
1st ed. 2022
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Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
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1st ed. 2022
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Springer Verlag, Singapore
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May 21st, 2022
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Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia.
Section 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction: Essays in Honour of Rana P.B. Singh
Ravi S. Singh, Arun K. Singh, Bharat Dahiya and Padma C. Poudel
Chapter 2: Practising Cultural Geographies: The Academic Contribution of Rana P.B. Singh
Ravi S. Singh and Bharat Dahiya
Section 2: Landscapes
Chapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape Perception
Prem Chhetri and Anjali Chhetri
Chapter 4: Ayurveda in the Rural Landscape: Poomully Mana in Kerala, India
Bharat Dahiya
Chapter 5: Char Landscapes of the Brahmaputra Riverine Tract, Assam: Elements of Evolution
and Cultural Ecology
A.K. Bhagabati and N. Deka
Chapter 6: Satellite Based Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Landscape Dynamics and Land Surface
Temperature Patterns in Hanoi, Vietnam
Nguyen Vu Giang, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Pham Viet Hoa, Hoang Thi Hang, and Atiqur Rahman
Section 3: Religion
Chapter 7: The Priesthood of the temple of Viṭhobā in Pandharpur, Maharashtra
Erik Reenberg Sand
Chapter 8: Geographical Spread of Hindu Religion and Culture into the West
Martin J. Haigh
Chapter 9: Cultural heritage in the north-eastern borderland of India: A case study of
indigenous religious belief systems
Ravi S. Singh
Section 4: Heritage
Chapter 10: Kautilya''s Political Geography-Concepts and Ideas: An Example of Ancient Indian
Geographical Thinking
Sudeepto Adhikari
Chapter 11: The Two Faces of Bodhgaya
Nikhil Joshi
Chapter 12: Instilling Local Knowledge Education: Promoting Vernacular Landscape Identity,
Heritage and Sustainability of School Youth in Dongshan Town, Suzhou, China
Juncheng Dai, Ruihong Zhang, Shangyi Zhou, and Shunying Tang
Chapter 13: Cultural Approaches to Animal Geographies: Cattle and Urban-Rural Intersections
in Delhi, India
Pratyusha Basu
Chapter 14: The Misings of Assam in the Midst of Tradition and Modernity: A Comparative
Study Of Selected Rural And Urban Areas
Pahari Doley and Bimal Kumar Kar
Section 5: Pilgrimage and Tourism
Chapter 15: Lumbini, Nepal: The Birth Place of Buddha and the Powerful Place of Pilgrimage in
the World
Padma Chandra Poudel
Chapter 16: Pañcakroshi Yatra: SymbolicManifestation of the Spatial to the Spiritual
Vandana Sehgal
Chapter 17: Cultural Tourism based Regional Development in Rajasthan, India
R.B. Singh and Ajay Kumar
Chapter 18: Baul-Sufi interface and Cultural Tourism: A study in Northern Rarh of West Bengal,
India
Premangshu Chakrabarty and Tushar Mandal
Section 6: Settlements
Chapter 19: Cultural Images of Kolkata: A Contemporary Perspective
L. N. Satpati
Chapter 20: Urban Sanitation in Indian cities: Reflections from Varanasi
Arun K. Singh
Chapter 21: Perspective on Agricultural Land Use Trajectory in the Peri-Urban Interface of a
Developing Economy. A Case Study
Nasrin Banu and Shahab Fazal
Chapter 22: Urban Renewal and Redevelopment of Public Space: An Approach towards
Community Resource Optimization in Varanasi
Sarbeswar Praharaj
Section 7: Epilogue
Chapter 23: Emerging Perspectives
Bharat Dahiya and Ravi S. Singh
Chapter 1: Introduction: Essays in Honour of Rana P.B. Singh
Ravi S. Singh, Arun K. Singh, Bharat Dahiya and Padma C. Poudel
Chapter 2: Practising Cultural Geographies: The Academic Contribution of Rana P.B. Singh
Ravi S. Singh and Bharat Dahiya
Section 2: Landscapes
Chapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape Perception
Prem Chhetri and Anjali Chhetri
Chapter 4: Ayurveda in the Rural Landscape: Poomully Mana in Kerala, India
Bharat Dahiya
Chapter 5: Char Landscapes of the Brahmaputra Riverine Tract, Assam: Elements of Evolution
and Cultural Ecology
A.K. Bhagabati and N. Deka
Chapter 6: Satellite Based Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Landscape Dynamics and Land Surface
Temperature Patterns in Hanoi, Vietnam
Nguyen Vu Giang, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Pham Viet Hoa, Hoang Thi Hang, and Atiqur Rahman
Section 3: Religion
Chapter 7: The Priesthood of the temple of Viṭhobā in Pandharpur, Maharashtra
Erik Reenberg Sand
Chapter 8: Geographical Spread of Hindu Religion and Culture into the West
Martin J. Haigh
Chapter 9: Cultural heritage in the north-eastern borderland of India: A case study of
indigenous religious belief systems
Ravi S. Singh
Section 4: Heritage
Chapter 10: Kautilya''s Political Geography-Concepts and Ideas: An Example of Ancient Indian
Geographical Thinking
Sudeepto Adhikari
Chapter 11: The Two Faces of Bodhgaya
Nikhil Joshi
Chapter 12: Instilling Local Knowledge Education: Promoting Vernacular Landscape Identity,
Heritage and Sustainability of School Youth in Dongshan Town, Suzhou, China
Juncheng Dai, Ruihong Zhang, Shangyi Zhou, and Shunying Tang
Chapter 13: Cultural Approaches to Animal Geographies: Cattle and Urban-Rural Intersections
in Delhi, India
Pratyusha Basu
Chapter 14: The Misings of Assam in the Midst of Tradition and Modernity: A Comparative
Study Of Selected Rural And Urban Areas
Pahari Doley and Bimal Kumar Kar
Section 5: Pilgrimage and Tourism
Chapter 15: Lumbini, Nepal: The Birth Place of Buddha and the Powerful Place of Pilgrimage in
the World
Padma Chandra Poudel
Chapter 16: Pañcakroshi Yatra: SymbolicManifestation of the Spatial to the Spiritual
Vandana Sehgal
Chapter 17: Cultural Tourism based Regional Development in Rajasthan, India
R.B. Singh and Ajay Kumar
Chapter 18: Baul-Sufi interface and Cultural Tourism: A study in Northern Rarh of West Bengal,
India
Premangshu Chakrabarty and Tushar Mandal
Section 6: Settlements
Chapter 19: Cultural Images of Kolkata: A Contemporary Perspective
L. N. Satpati
Chapter 20: Urban Sanitation in Indian cities: Reflections from Varanasi
Arun K. Singh
Chapter 21: Perspective on Agricultural Land Use Trajectory in the Peri-Urban Interface of a
Developing Economy. A Case Study
Nasrin Banu and Shahab Fazal
Chapter 22: Urban Renewal and Redevelopment of Public Space: An Approach towards
Community Resource Optimization in Varanasi
Sarbeswar Praharaj
Section 7: Epilogue
Chapter 23: Emerging Perspectives
Bharat Dahiya and Ravi S. Singh
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