Content Description
The accession consists of G S Rawat's papers. Gopal S Rawat is a wildlife biologist associated with the Wildlife Institute of India. His research interests include long-term ecological monitoring of high-altitude ecosystems, ecology and management of alpine rangeland/alpine meadows, and orchid systematics and ecology. The papers include Rawat's PhD thesis, notebooks and diaries, checklists of plants, and illustrations of plants.
Series one contains material related to Rawat's scientific research. This includes a sub-series dedicated to field notebooks, research reference notes and sketch books. These have been arranged chronologically. The second sub-series contains Rawat's PhD and DSc theses. The second series only contains Rawat's contact card. This series has been maintained to accomodate more material that might be donated to the Archives in the future.
Dates
- Creation: 1983-2007
Creator
- Ramachandran, Anjali (Processing Archivist, Person)
- Rawat, G. S. (Creator, Person)
Biographical / Historical
Gopal S Rawat is a wildlife botanist who specialises in alpine plant ecology. Rawat was faculty at the Wildlife Institute of India and has also worked at Botanical Survey of India. Rawat's works on high altitude ecosystems and studies ecosystmes in alpine rangeland and meadows. Rawat has worked on wide variety of subjects in the himalayan region including on orchid systematics, wild ungulates in Ladakh, pastoral practices in Himalayas, alpine plant communities etc.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (2 Hollinger archives boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The intellectual arrangement strives to preserve provenance and original order of the papers. Where an original order could not be found, the Archives has applied an order, and folders within sub-series are arranged usually in chronological or alphabetical order. See Scope and Content section for details.
Condition Description
The collection is in fairly good condition.
- Title
- G S Rawat Papers
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives at NCBS Repository
National Centre for Biological Sciences - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Bangalore Karnataka 560065 India
+9180 6717 6010
+9180 6717 6011
archives@ncbs.res.in