The dilemma of measuring the developmental level of economies was solved once the United Nations Development Programme (UNDO) published its first Human Development Report (HDR) in 1990. The report had a human development index (HDI) which was the first attempt to define and measure the level of ...

TYPES OF MINERALS Topic: Economic Geography, Minerals METALLIC MINERALS: These minerals contain metal, Iron Ore, manganese, nickel, etc are important examples of metallic minerals.Ferrous minerals: These minerals have iron content. IronOre, manganise, Chromite, pyrite, tungsten, nickel, ...

CAUSES OF INFLATION Topic: Inflation This type of inflation is caused due to an increase in aggregate demand in the economy. This type of inflation is caused due to various reasons such as: Increase in price of inputs.Hoarding and speculation of commodities.Defective supply ...

PLANNING OF HOUSES IN HARAPPA People lived in houses of different sizes, mostly consisting of rooms arranged around a central courtyard.Doorways and winfows generally faced the side lanes and rarely opend onto the main streets.The view from the lane into the courtyard was blocked off by a ...

TAMIL SCRIPT The earliest inscription in the Tamil language is engraved in rock shelters and caves, mostly in Tamil Nadu, especially in the area near Madurai. They are in a script known as Tamil-Brahmi, an adoption of Brahmi for writing the Tamil Language.Three Southern scripts emerged in the ...

PLANNING OF CITES The streets and houses of Harappan cities were once through to be laid on a grid pattern oriented north-south and east-west. Actually, even Mohenjodaro does not show a perfect grid system.Roads were not always absolutely straight and did not always cross one another at right ...

The Harappan sites varied a great deal in size and function, from large cities to small pastoral camps.The largest settlements include Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Ganweriwala, Rakhigarhi and Dholavira.The second rung of Harappan settlememts are moderate sized sites ranging between 10 to 50ha, such as ...

DEBATE ON THE ORIGIN OF INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION: Theory 1- Aryan Theory Representative historians are SR Roy, TR Ramachandran, KV Shastri.They say that IVC was developed by Aryan, same Aryan associated with vedic Culture.This theory is refuted because of great contrast between IVC and ...

RELIGIOUS POLICY OF PORTUGUESE Portuguese brought with them the zeal to promote christianity and the wish to persecute all Muslims.Intolerent towards the Muslims, the portuguese were initially quite tolerent towards the Hindus. However, over time, after the introduction of the Inquisition in ...

BRAHMI SCRIPT The origin of Brahmi, a script written from left to right, are not as clear.Some scholars have suggested an indigenous origin, other an Aramaic origin.A problem in accepting the latter theory is that the direction of writing and the forms of the letters in Brahmi and kharoshthi ...

REPOS AND REVERSE REROS In the era of economic reforms there developed two new instruments of money market-repo and reverse repo.Considered the most dynamic instruments of Indian money market they have emerged the most favoured route to raise short-term funds in India.'Repo' is basically an ...

RISE IN FREQUENCY AND INTENSITY OF CYCLONES IN ARABIAN SEA A 52% increase was noticed in the frequency of cyclones over the Arabian Sea between 2001 and 2019, and an 8% decrease over the Bay of Bengal. Surface temparatures in the Arabian Sea have increased rapidly during the past century ...