RAIPUR

rīˈpoor, city (1991 pop. 462,694), capital of Chhattisgarh state, E central India, on the Kharun River. It is a district administrative center and an agricultural-processing and sawmilling town, situated on the Nagpur-Bilaspur Railway. It is the cite of Ravishankar Shukla Univ. (1964). Raipur was founded in the 14th cent.

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books on: Raipur  - 68 results

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The Divine Hierarchy: Popular Hinduism in Central India
Book by Lawrence A. Babb; Columbia University Press, 1975
Subjects: Hinduism--India--Chatt?Isaga*Rh
reached by bus. Of the two cities, Raipur, about thirty miles away, is the larger and more important...Sitapur speak of "the city," they are usually referring to Raipur. Raipur Raipur, with a population of 139,000 1961 census , is the...
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The Territories and States of India
Book by David Taylor; Europa, 2002
Subjects: India--History, India--Territories And Possessions, India--Territories And Possessions--History
...capital to Nandghat, midway between Raipur and Bilaspur. The main city of Bastar...smaller Kanker) is Jagdalpur. West of Raipur are the cities of Durg, Bhilai and Raj Nandgaon. North-east of Raipur is the second city of the state and one...
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Asia: a Regional and Economic Geography
Book by L. Dudley Stamp; Metheun, 1969
Subjects: Asia--Economic Conditions
...area of the Chhattisgarh Plain around Raipur R N = Nagpur; T = Important tanks. The...around the natural centre of the region, Raipur. There is little doubt that this area...for the construction of the line from Raipur to the port of Vizagapatam. The great...
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The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940
Book by Daniel R. Headrick; Oxford University Press, 1988
Subjects: Great Britain--Colonies--History, Imperialism--History, Technology Transfer--History, Tropics--Economic Conditions
...phosphorus, thus easy to smelt. 65 However, Raipur was far from any source of coal. Bose...to keep transport costs within reason. Raipur did not possess this combination. The...closer to the Bengal coal fields than the Raipur hills. Perin, hearing of the discovery...
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India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geography
Book by O. H. K. Spate; Methuen, 1954
Subjects: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
...Nizams State, 674 North-Western, 314 , 316 , 429 , 459 , 479 Raipur-Vizag line, 313 , 688 South Indian, 313 , 635 , 724 , 731...59 , 603 , 646 , 750 - 751 rains, conditions in, 43 - 46 Raipur, 52 , 313 , 666 , 688 ; Dt, 665 , 672 RAJAGOPALACHARIAR...
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journal articles on: Raipur  - 13 results

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Megalithic Pochampad: The Skeletal Biology and Archaeological Context of an Iron Age Site in Andhra Pradesh, India
Journal article by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Andhra Pradesh, India--Research, Megalithic monuments--Research, Prehistoric peoples--Research
...Tadakanahalli, Kamaranahalli, Tenneru, Raipur, and Raigir (Kennedy 1997). Considering...Human skeletal evidence from megalithic Raipur. Bulletin of the Deccan College Research...Human skeletal evidence from megalithic Raipur, in Megalithic Raipur (1985-1990...
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Shankar Guha Niyogi: Beyond Conventional Trade Unionism in India
Journal article by Sharat G. Lin; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 24, 1992
Subjects: Asia, Asia--Intellectual Life, Asia--Politics And Government
...such districts as Jhabua, Hoshangabad, Dhar, Khargone, and Raipur. These incidents have been paralleled by renewed attacks against...It encompasses the present districts of Rajnandgaon, Durg, Raipur, Bilaspur, and Bastar. It was listed as a backward area by...
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Four Hindi Poets
Journal article by Shrikant Verma; World Literature Today, Vol. 68, 1994
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Raghuvir Sahay, Dhoomil, and Shrikant Verma. Verma was born in Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh, in 1931, was educated there and in Raipur and at Nagpur University, from where he recived an M.A. in Hindi 1956. He moved then to Delhi, where he worked as a journalist...
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Land of Wealth, Land of Famine the Suā Nāc (Parrot Dance) of Central India
Journal article by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Robert J. White; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 100, 1987
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Trust. Shukla, Dayashankar. 1969 . Chhattisgarhi loksahitya ka adhyayan (A Study of the Folk Literature of Chhattisgarh) . Raipur: Jyoti Prakashan. Sweeney, Amin. 1980 . Authors and Audiences in Traditional Malay Literature . Monograph 20, Center for...
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Emphasizing 'Others': The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in a Central Indian Tribal Community
Journal article by Peggy Froerer; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 12, 2006
Subjects: Anthropology--Research, Ethnic neighborhoods--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Ethnic neighborhoods--Political aspects, Ethnic neighborhoods--Research, Ethnic neighborhoods--Social aspects, Hindus--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Hindus--Political aspects, Hindus--Research, India--History, India--Political aspects, India--Social aspects, Nationalism--Research
...Seva Sanstha (Community Service Organization), a Catholic-run organization that is based in the neighbouring district of Raipur. It was set up in the early 1990s for the purpose of instituting social service and welfare projects. Although a few women...
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magazine articles on: Raipur  - 5 results

 
 
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In Search of the Muria Code: In the Heart of India Lives a Tribe Whose Unusual Sexual Customs Caused a Sensation When First Introduced to the West by a Renegade British Missionary. More Than 50 Years on, the Muria's Way of Life Is Threatened as Never Before
Magazine article by David Orr; Geographical, Vol. 77, March 2005
Subjects: Gonds (Indic people)--Sexual behavior
...to be of much economic or social benefit to the people themselves. As I drove up through the hills from the state capital, Raipur, I noticed hammer-and-sickle logos daubed on walls and roadside rocks. That Bastar hasnt been developed more quickly is...
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Cause for Celebration
Magazine article; Amnesty International, Vol. 35, Winter 2009
...National Public Radio, was arrested in January and convicted of unspecified "espionage." BINAYAK SEN, INDIA 3 Released from Raipur prison on May 26 after the Supreme Court granted him bail. Sen, a noted medical doctor and human rights activist, had been...
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Fire in the Hole: How India's Economic Rise Turned an Obscure Communist Revolt into a Raging Resource War
Magazine article by Jason Miklian, Scott Carney; Foreign Policy, September 2010
Subjects: Chhattisgarh, India--Military aspects, Coal mining--Economic aspects, Coal mining--Military aspects, Communist Party of India (Maoist)--Military aspects, Insurgency--India, Insurgency--Social aspects, Mine management--Economic aspects, Mine management--Military aspects
...heavyweight boxer a decade past his prime. When we met him in his office, far from the fighting, in Chhattisgarhs capital of Raipur, he was flanked by armed guards. Above his desk was a life-size portrait of Mahatma Gandhi. Karma founded the militia in...
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"Vicious Attack"
Magazine article; Anglican Journal, Vol. 130, January 2004
Subjects: Chhattisgarh India, Christians, Hindus, Religious conflict, State elections
...be baptized "on orders of the Pope." "This is vicious," said Joseph Augustine Charanakunnel, Roman Catholic bishop of Raipur, the capital of Chattisgarh. "We are used to constant Christian-bashing here. But this is beyond all limits." The issue...
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Library Automation Facilitation: a Case Study of Nit Libraries in India
Magazine article by Y. Srinivasa Rao, B. K. Choudhury; Computers in Libraries, Vol. 29, November 2009
Subjects: Academic libraries, Colleges & universities, Public access, Sample size, Servers, Technological change
...phases, all 17 RECs as National Institutes of Technology (NITs). Later, three government engineering colleges (Patna, Raipur, and Agartala) were added to the NIT family. All 20 institutes (see Figure 1) offer benchmarks for technical education...


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newspaper articles on: Raipur  - 4 results

 
 
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Lessons from a Kebab Stand
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 12, 2009
Subjects: News agencies, The Associated Press
...wants to open his own restaurant and earn enough to buy a house for the woman he loves, who lives hundreds of miles away in Raipur, a central Indian city. He found her in the most untraditional of ways: on a Web chat room, where he spends nearly as much...
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A Bride .. Aged Seven; EXCLUSIVE: ARRANGED CHILD MARRIAGES THAT SHAME INDIA HEARTBREAKING PICTURES SPELL END OF INNOCENCE
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), May 30, 2004
...girls are also more susceptible to HIV and Aids." Human rights worker Subash Mahapatra, who is based in Chhattisgarhs capital Raipur, added: "These marriages are absolutely inhuman. The death toll is so high among mothers and newborn children that finding...
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Strange but True: COUSIN DOES THUG'S TIME; Bizarre Stories from around the World
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), June 19, 2005
...law POLICEMAN in Indian really are getting younger. Five-year-old Saurabh Nagvanshi has been signed up as a policeman in Raipur under a law that allows a family member to take the post of a government employee who dies while in service. Saurabhs late...
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Briton Suspected of Bomb Plot Escapes
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 17, 2007
...prison guards and fled amid gunfire. Mr Sharma said 299 of the 377 inmates fled from the Dantewada prison, 350 miles south of Raipur. The jailbreak occurred while dinner was being served to the prisoners. Meanwhile hundreds of people clashed with police yesterday...


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encyclopedia articles on: Raipur  - 4 results

 
 
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Raipur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RAIPUR ri poor, city (1991 pop. 462,694), capital of Chhattisgarh state...Bilaspur Railway. It is the cite of Ravishankar Shukla Univ. (1964). Raipur was founded in the 14th cent. ____________________ Copyright...
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Sinha, Satyendra Prassano, 1st Baron Sinha of Raipur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SINHA, SATYENDRA PRASSANO, 1ST BARON SINHA OF RAIPUR s ten dr pr san o sin ha, 1864 1928, Indian statesman. A successful lawyer, he was the first Indian to hold several important...
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Khorana, Har Gobind
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KHORANA, HAR GOBIND 1922 , American biochemist, b. Raipur (now in Pakistan), Ph.D. Univ. of Liverpool, 1948. He became a U.S. citizen in 1966, and has been a professor at the...
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Chhattisgarh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...its eastern section occupies the Deccan plateau, with hills in the west and the Maikal Mts. in the north. The capital is Raipur ; other cities include Bastar and Bhilainagar , which houses the states largest steel plant. The population is more than two...


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