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1 India: Regional Problems and Resource management Module 11 (Full Marks 50) Unit I: Region and Regionalisation 1.1 Various bases of regionalisation of India; problems of identification and delineation. 1.2 Physiographic and Climatic regions: Interrelation among Climate, Vegetation and Soil; Bio-climatic regions. 1.3 Agricultural, Industrial and Planning regions. 1.4 Evolution of Social regions of India, Nuclear regions and Regions of isolation. Unit II: Regional Problems and Their Mitigation 2.1 Regional problem of the Himalayan belt: Terrain character, Availability of water, Seismic sensitivity and Landslide, Transport network and Accessibility, Ethno-cultural diversity (with special reference to N.E.). 2.2 Problems of Arid regions: Desertification and Crisis of water, Salinization and Negative impact of Irrigation, Problems of Grazing and Cropping, Demographic issues and Gender bias. 2.3 Problems of Great Plain and Plateaus: Flood and Drought, Bank erosion, Environmental pollution, Share of river water, Demographic and Social constraints. 2.4 Problems of Coastal belts: Erosion, Constraints of Fishing and Storage, Cyclone, Oil-spill; Implementation of CRZ, Non-degradable waste. Unit III: Natural Resource Management 3.1 Augmentation of water: Big dams and Reservoirs, River linkage, Micro-watershed planning, Water harvesting, Safe utilization of Ground water. 3.2 Forest Resource Management: Policy of conservation with special reference to Forest Hierarchies, Bio-diversity and Participatory Management of Forest. 3.3 Land Management: Conservation of Ramsar sites, Conversion of land-use, Land reclamation. 3.4 Minerals and Power: Problems of mining-open pit, Under ground and Under sea; Advantages and disadvantages of Hydel, Thermal, Nuclear power and Non-conventional energy bases in India. Unit IV: Socio Economic Issues 4.1 Changing nature of India s economic base with reference to Agriculture, Industry, Trade and Transport. 4.2 Rural Urban linkage and interaction; Urbanization in India: problems, processes and hierarchy. 4.3 Regional disparities in Population Growth, Domestic production, Infrastructure and Human development. 4.4 Rural development models and Mega city projects.

2 SEMESTER III Historical and Political Geography Module 12 (Full Marks 50) Unit I: Historical Geography 1.1 Nature, Scope, content and approaches. 1.2 Relationship with History and other branches of Geography. 1.3 Literature, Travel accounts, Archives and Chronicles as source materials. 1.4 Evolution of maps in the making of Historical Geography. Unit II: Historical Geography of India 2.1 Ancient and Puranic period: Geographical materials, Territorial Organisation of the Janapada, Urbanisation. 2.2 Medieval period: Trade accounts of Huen Tsiang and Ibn-e-Batuta, Regional and Economic Geography of India. 2.3 Mughal period: Territorial organization of the Empire, Industry, Agriculture, Trade and Urbanization. 2.4 Colonial period with particular reference to Eastern India: Trends in Agriculture, Industrialization and Urbanization, Trade, Colony s economy, Development of Transport network and its Port orientation; Origin and Development of Gateway Cities. Unit III: Political Geography 3.1 Nature, scope and content; Relationship with Political Science; Political Geography in the era of Globalisation; Concept of Geo- Politics and evolution of Geo-strategic views. 3.2 Geographical perspective on formation of State, Nation and Nation-state, Core and Peripheral areas, Capitals, Frontiers and Boundaries, Border lands, Buffer Zones and Buffer states, Land locked states. 3.3 Electoral Geography; Regional Stability and Realignments; System model and Revised models. 3.4 Politics of world resources, Political and economic blocks, Political Geography of Foreign Trade. Unit IV: Political Geography of India 4.1 Boundary dispute and Geo-political setting of India SAARC. 4.2 Bases of Re-organization of Indian states since Independence. 4.3 Federalism in India and Centre state relation. 4.4 International Water Disputes.

3 SEMESTER III Ganga Delta Module 13 (Full Marks 50) Unit I: Origin and Characteristics of Delta 1.1 Evolution of Ganga Delta. 1.2 Hydro-morphological characteristics. 1.3 Geomorphological units. 1.4 Recent changes in Hydro-dynamics and its effect on Ganga-delta formation. Unit II: Ganga Delta: West Bengal 2.1. Avulsion of the main flow and its effects on the drainage system Major Geomorphic divisions and their characteristics. 2.3 Tidal behaviour and changing landscape. 2.4 Study of Sunderbans. Unit III: Socio- economic Background and Changing Economic Landscape 3.1 Population dynamics: Growth, Migration and changing composition. 3.2 Crop-combination and Technological innovation. 3.3 Problems of industrialisation and Emerging industrial scenario. 3.4 Infrastructural development and Urbanisation. Unit IV: Problems and Prospects 4.1 Flood, Drought and their mitigation. 4.2 Ground Water Contamination and Prevention. 4.3 Problems of Transport; Decay of the river and the Port-industrial economy. 4.4 Human development.

4 Quantitative Techniques Module 14 Full marks 50 Unit I: Levels of Measurement, Sampling, Population Analysis 1.1 Levels of measurement: Nominal, Ordinal, ratio and interval; Sampling techniques: Purposive, Random, Systematic, Stratified and Multistage. 1.2 Mean centre of population and its shift over time. 1.3 Standard distance from Mean centre of population. 1.4 Population Projection and Population Potential by Gravity model. Unit II: Measurement of Inequality, Analysis of Spatial Pattern 2.1 Location quotient, Index of dissimilarity. 2.2 Z-Score, Probability statement. 2.3 Nearest Neighbour Analysis and Chi-square test. 2.4 Index of development by Kendall s method. Unit III Correlation and Regression 3.1 Pearson s Product Moment and Spearman s Rank correlation coefficients and Test of significance. 3.2 Linear regression and Non-linear analysis. 3.3 Residual mapping. 3.4 Computation of Exponential Curve. Unit IV: Laboratory Note Book and Viva voce

5 Digital Image Processing and G.I.S. Module 15 Full marks 50 Unit I: Digital Image Processing 1.1 Digital Image and Digital Data formats. 1.2 Image rectification. 1.3 Image enhancement and spatial filtering. 1.4 Image classification supervised and unsupervised. Unit II: Fundamentals of Geographic Information System 2.1 Introduction to G.I.S. 2.2 Components of G.I.S. 2.3 Data acquisition, data structure Raster and Vector. 2.4 Data manipulate and analysis. Unit III: Geographical Information System and Mapping 3.1 Scanning and Digitization. 3.2 Georeferencing, creation of layers, integration of spatial and non-spatial data. 3.3 Simple querry and creation of map. 3.4 Application of G.I.S. Unit IV: Laboratory Note Book and Viva voce

6 India: Regional Problems and Resource management Module 11 Unit III: Natural Resource Management 3.3 Land Management: Conservation of Ramsar sites, Conversion of land-use, Land reclamation.

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