Box MS-021 Box 8

Content Description From the Collection: The collection consists primarily of Prabhakar’s research on the Nilgiri Biosphere Area as part of his doctoral work at CES (Centre for Ecological Sciences), IISc in Bangalore, India, between mid-1980 to 1995. The papers have been arranged into 4 series - notes and writing, research work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, cartographic work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, and research references, reports and datasheets related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The...

Content Description From the Collection: The collection consists primarily of Prabhakar’s research on the Nilgiri Biosphere Area as part of his doctoral work at CES (Centre for Ecological Sciences), IISc in Bangalore, India, between mid-1980 to 1995. The papers have been arranged into 4 series - notes and writing, research work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, cartographic work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, and research references, reports and datasheets related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. The...

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Folder contains loose sheets of notes from a discussion with the ex-collector of Nilgiris, Mr. Rajkumar.

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Folder contains 2 notebooks with notes taken by Prabhakar while attending a course by Raghavendra Gadagkar.

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Folder contains one notebook with notes taken by Prabhakar while attending a course by Madhav Gadgil.

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Folder contains bound sheets with printed minutes of meetings held during a tour of the Nilgiri area between 3 January 1993 to 16 January 1993 for thesis related research.

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Folder contains a copy of a printed question paper for a course titled "Evolution, Behaviour, and Sociobiology".

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Folder contains loose sheets of printed minutes of meeting from a discussion with Dr. J P Pascal.

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Folder contains loose sheets of handwritten notes for a seminar presentation on the Nilgiri area.

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Folder contains loose printed sheets with notes for a doctoral committe meeting. Also includes a copy of Prabhakar's review of Paul Hocking's famous book on the Nilgiris 'Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region'.

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Folder contains a draft of the paper presented at an international workshop sponsored by START and SASCOM on "Historical perspectives of land use and land cover changes in South Asia for the study of global change".

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Folder contains a sheet with schedule for Prabhakar and Madhav Gadgil's travel to Nilgiri for the mid-term appraisal.

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Folder contains a copy of a call for case studies for World Resources Institute's publication.

Scope and Contents The fourth sub-series, Published work, contains three published articles, one of them being Prabhakar’s thesis ‘Resource Use Culture and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India’. Also includes 2 maps - A map of Uttarakhand, curated in collaboration with Bhupendra Singh Mehta and R Ravindranath, and a vegetation and land use map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Area in collaboration with J P Pascal. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically. One set of copies of...

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R. Prabhakar, N.V. Joshi, H.S. Suresh, Hierarchical Partitioning of Tree Diversity Across Spatial Scales: A Study from the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Southern India, International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, 1997, Vol. 23.

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R. Prabhakar, Madhav Gadgil, Maps as markers for ecological change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India, Nature, culure, imperialism: essays on the environmental history of South Asia. Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1995.

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Prabhakar, R and Gadgil, Madhav, Resource Use Culture and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India, Indian Institute of Sciences, 1994.