GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA

By PROF. A. BALASUBRAMANIAN | DoS in Geology University of Mysore

Learners enrolled: 5772

The study of Geography and the formation of the earth systems is quite challenging and most insightful to gain the knowledge. This course under Faculty of Sciences named "Geography of India" will help the students, scholars and others will enhance the skills and deep understanding about the formation of physiography and physiographic divisions of India. The study includes geographical setting of the Natural features such as the changes in topography, various compositions of soils, geomorphologic patterns, and basins of India, watershed, and tributaries. Study also includes climate systems, regional developments, irrigation systems, agricultural activities, rural-urban settlements, formation of demography and its migrations. Trades, Commodities, Industrial activities at various scales. The overall outcome of the course is to help the students to increase the deep understanding about the subject of Geography. This course also helps the Civil services aspirants where Geography is one of the optional paper where aspirants can take for the examination.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	15 Jun 2020
End Date :	29 Nov 2020
Enrollment Ends :	14 Oct 2020
Exam Date :	26 Mar 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week – 1 | 1. Physiographic Divisions of India | 2. India's Political Divisions | 3. India and its Neighbour's |

Week – 2 | 4.India: Topography and Slopes | 5.The Indian Coastal | 6.Indo Gangetic Plain |

Week – 3 | 7.Climatic Regions of India | 8.Climate of India | 9.Drainage System of India |

Week – 5 | 14.Regional Plans of India | 15.Categories of Land Use | 16.Natural/Physical Regions | 17.Irrigation System of India

Week – 8 | 26.Indicators of Human Development | 27.Urbanization in India | 28.Rural Settlements in India |

Books and references

NAME OF THE BOOK	AUTHOR
A Geography of India, Atmarama and Sons, New Delhi.	Gopal Singh
Physical Geology of India, NBT (1991)	Mathur, S.M.
Geography of India	Mazid Hussain
Geography of India, Raniat, Jaipur (1996)	Ranjit Thirtha
India : A Comprehensive Geography Kalyani Publishers, Ludhiana (2000)	Khullar D.R
Geography of India, PrayagPustakBhawan, Allahabad. (2008)	Tiwari R.C
Economic and Commercial Geography of India.	Sharma and Coutinho

Instructor bio

PROF. A. BALASUBRAMANIAN

DoS in Geology University of Mysore

Prof. A. Balsubramanian, Course coordinator is serving as Professor of Earth Science at the DOS in Earth Science at the University of Mysore. He developed various documentary films on tourism, geography and socio economic originated programs for UGC’s Higher education channel. He did his Ph.D in Hydrogeology and water resources evaluation with digital numerical simulation methods, by developing useful Software. He conducted his advanced numerical and experimental modelling research on Dense Contaminant Transport, at the Dept. of Civil and Systems Engineering, James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia. His computer programs like, HYCH (Hydrochemicalfacies analysis, FLOMOD - for two-dimensional groundwater flow analysis, AQPARM (APE) for aquifer parameter evaluation, PRINCI for principal component analysis, RMULT- for multiple regression, TIMESER- for time series analysis, POLYNOM and MORPHO, were used during the last three decades, by several scholars. He has authored seven books, published over 150 research papers, 175 e-learning lessons, 400 documentaries in Earth Science, Geography, Tourism and other subjects. He is the recipient of Vikram Sarabhai Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and Dr. Abdul Kalam National Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.

He served as Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology, and Director of Centre for Information Science &Technology (CIST), Educational Multimedia Research Centre (UGC) at the University of Mysore, and also as Director of Culture and Cultural Relations (Statutory Position) at Pondicherry University, during the last two decades. He has 37 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. He developed curriculum for Master Degree courses, taught computer applications, conducted a dozen major projects and participated in hundreds of academic ventures, in several institutions.

He has developed e-contents for more than 200 topics, for CEC in Geography, Tourism and allied subjects.

Course certificate

Assessment/Assignment marks will be considered for Internal Marks and will carry 30 percent for overall Result.

End Term Exam- will have 100 questions and will carry 70 percent of overall Result.

*All students, who obtain 40% marks in in-course assessment and 40% marks in end-term proctored exam separately, will be eligible for certificate and credit transfer.

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