Human and Economic Geography

CHAPTER 1: Diversity in India

🌍Introduction
🌍Racial Diversity in India
🌍Linguistic Diversity in India
🌍Minorities in India
🌍Cultural Regions of India

CHAPTER 2: Major Tribes of India

🌍Understanding Scheduled Tribes in India
🌍Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)
🌍Tribes of the Himalayan Region
🌍Tribes of North-East India
🌍Tribes of Central India        
🌍Tribes of Eastern India
🌍Tribes of Western India Region
🌍Tribes of Southern India Region
🌍Tribes of Island Region

CHAPTER 3: Evolution of Indian Industries

🌍Introduction to Industry
🌍Phases of Industrialisation in India
🌍Industrial Policy in India
👉Industrial Policy pre-1991
👉New Industrial Policy – 1991
👉Post-1991 Industrial Policy Developments
🌍Concept of Industrial Complexes
🌍Overview of Public Sector in India
🌍Segmentation of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in India.
🌍Reforms and Disinvestment in PSU Sector

CHAPTER 4: Industrial Regionalisation

🌍Introduction to Industrial Regions
🌍Major Industrial Regions
🌍Some Minor Industrial Regions of India
🌍Industrial Corridors
🌍MAJOR INDUSTRIAL REGIONS OF WORLD
👉Industrial Regions of North America
👉Industrial Regions of Europe
👉Industrial Regions of Asia
👉Industrial Regions of Russia and Post-Soviet States
👉Industrial Regions of Latin America
👉Industrial Regions of Africa
👉Industrial Regions of Oceania

CHAPTER 5: Locational Factors of Industries

🌍Locational Factors of Industries
🌍Jute Industry
🌍Wool Textile Industry
🌍Dairy Farming
🌍Fishing Industry
🌍Cotton Textile Industry
👉World Distribution of Cotton Textile Industry
👉Cotton Textile Industry in India
🌍Sugar Industry
🌍Fertiliser Industry
🌍Sunrise Industry
🌍Food Processing Industry
🌍Iron and Steel Industry
👉Locational Factors of Iron and Steel Industry
👉Global Distribution of Iron and Steel Industry
🌍Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Industry
🌍Railway Industry
🌍The Automobile Industry
🌍Cement Industry
🌍Lumbering, Pulp and Paper Industry
🌍Cottage Industries
🌍Tertiary Sector
🌍Silk Industry
🌍Meat Industry
🌍Acid Based Industry
🌍Aerospace Industry
🌍Semiconductor Industry
🌍Synthetic Fiber Industry

CHAPTER 6: Energy Resources

🌍Coal
👉Distribution of Coal Across the World
👉Distribution of Coal in India
👉Coal Sector in India: Significance and Challenges
👉Recent Developments in Coal Sector
🌍Petroleum and Mineral Oil
👉World Distribution of Petroleum
👉Distribution of Petroleum in India
👉Petrochemical Industry
🌍Natural Gas
👉Distribution of Natural Gas Across India and the World
👉Natural Gas Refining Industry
🌍Unconventional Gas Reservoirs
👉Coal Bed Methane (CBM)
👉Shale Gas | Tight Gas | Gas Hydrates

CHAPTER 7: Mineral Resources

🌍Iron
👉World Production and Distribution of Iron Ore
👉Production and Distribution of Iron Ore in India
🌍Bauxite
👉Bauxite Distribution Across the World
👉Aluminium Industry
🌍Gold
🌍Silver
🌍Lead, Zinc and Pyrite
👉Lead | Lead Industry | Zinc | Zinc Smelting Industry
👉Distribution of Lead and Zinc Ores | Pyrites
🌍Ores of Metals used in Alloys
👉Manganese | Tungsten | Copper | Copper Smelting Industry
👉Nickel | Molybdenum | Chromite
🌍Non-Metallic Minerals
👉Graphite | Diamond | Limestone | Dolomite | Magnesite
👉Mica | Asbestos | Kyanite | Sillimanite | Gypsum
🌍Atomic Minerals
👉Uranium | Thorium
🌍Critical Minerals
👉Critical Minerals in the Indian Context
👉Critical Minerals: Usage & Availability in India
👉Lithium | Cobalt | Titanium
👉Other Important Critical Minerals
🌍Rare Earth Elements (REEs)
🌍Mining

CHAPTER 8: Population Geography

🌍Population Distribution and Density
🌍Factors of Population Distribution
🌍World Population Distribution 2024
🌍Determinants of Fertility
🌍Determinants of Mortality
🌍Distribution of Fertility Rates Across the World (2024)
🌍Demographic Transition Model (DTM)
🌍Sample Registration System (SRS) Statistical Report
🌍Migration
🌍Internal Migration in India
🌍Trends and Patterns in Internal and External Migration        
🌍UN Report on International Migrant Stock 2024
🌍World Population Problems
🌍World Population Policies
🌍Food Insecurity and Hunger
🌍State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2024) Report
🌍Famine
🌍Family Planning and Population Control in India (2024)
🌍Census 2011 Data: Facts and Figures   
🌍Census 2011 Analysis
🌍National Family Health Survey
🌍Human Development Index
🌍Human Development Index 2024-25

CHAPTER 9: Settlement Geography

🌍Introduction to Rural Settlement
🌍Classification of Rural Settlements
🌍Patterns of Rural Settlements
🌍Morphology of Rural Settlements
🌍Rural Settlements in the Himalayas
🌍Rural Settlements in the Northern Great Plains
🌍Rural Settlements in Peninsular India
🌍Rural Settlements in the Coastal Plains
🌍Urban Settlements
🌍Typology of Urban Settlements
🌍Types of Urban Centres in India
🌍Urban Morphology in the Developing World
🌍Conurbations and Metropolitan Regions
🌍Urbanisation
🌍Slums and Squatter Settlements

CHAPTER 10: Regional Planning in India

🌍Introduction to Regional Development and Planning in India
🌍The Evolution of Planning in India
🌍Five Year Plans
🌍Analysis of Five-Year Plans and NITI Aayog
🌍Multi-Level Planning (MLP) in India
🌍Panchayati Raj and Decentralisation in India
🌍Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP)
🌍Command Area Development
🌍Watershed Management
🌍Area-Based Development: Planning for Backward Area
🌍Desert Development Programme (DDP)
🌍Drought-Prone Area Programme (DPAP)
🌍Hill Area Development Programme (HADP)
🌍Tribal Area Development (TAD)
🌍Case Study of Tribal Development in Bastar
🌍Case Study – Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC)
🌍Development of Island Territories in India
🌍Development of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (ANI)
🌍Development of Lakshadweep Islands
🌍Development of Sagar Island

CHAPTER 11: Transport and Communication

🌍Introduction to Transport and Communication
🌍Land Transport
🌍Road Transport in India
🌍Rail Transport in India
🌍Introduction to Water Transport
🌍Water Transport in India
🌍Air Transport
🌍Pipeline Network: India and World
🌍Communication