1st Edition

Life as a Geographer in India

By Anu Kapur Copyright 2021
268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

268 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This is the first book which provides an engaging and insightful narrative on the life of a geographer in India. The author introspects on her own experiences and engagements with the discipline and explores the life and works of twenty-four other geographers from India. The volume documents and acknowledges the commitment of geographers to life, teaching, and the subject of geography.... Read more

Introduction. PART I: LifeSpace 1. My lifespace as a geographer PART II: LifeScapes 2. Unfinished words and untold works of an Indian geographer: S.G. Burman 3. Opportunity a bit late…Death a bit soon: C.P. Singh 4. Mapping Gopal Krishan 5. A master geographer–planner: K.V. Sundaram PART III: LifeContours 6. The life and works of 22 geographers in India. Index.

Biography

Anu Kapur is Professor of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. She is Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India and Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. She is a recipient of the Amartya Sen Award in 2012 for Distinguished Social Scientists, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. Her areas of interest are geography in India and geography of India.