Prabhakar Rajagopal is an ecologist working extensively in computational infrastructure. After completing his masters in Biomedical Engineering at IIT Madras in 1978, he travelled to Bangalore to pursue a PhD at Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) located at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Working closely with experts in the field such as Madhav Gadgil and RJ Ranjit Daniels, he prepared for his thesis on cultural and ecological changes in the Nilgiri Hills in Southern India. His primary references for this project have been through travelling to the Nilgiris and collecting transect data as well as conducting oral history interviews with members of various tribal communities and estate owners. Prabhakar is also known for collecting, analysing, annotating and curating maps to aid his research. J P Pascal has been a notable collaborator on some of his work, particularly his land use and vegetation map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
In 2002, he completed a short-term course in Bioinformatics and has since been working as a director at Strand Life Sciences in Bangalore. He founded the Biodiversity Informatics team at Strand in 2008, and has since led several projects that have enabled open source, free, and participative platforms for curation and circulation of biodiversity information within India such as the India Biodiversity Portal, Bhutan Biodiversity Portal, and WIKITROP.
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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.
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 arrangement strives to prioritise documenting Prabhakar's research process, hence the first few series contain his personal notes, primary research data etc. And the later series consists of his published and more publicly accessible material.
The existing collection has been arranged into four series: Series 1: Notes and Writings Sub-Series 1: Notes and drafts for research articles and publication Sub-Series 2: Excerpted notes and Bibliographies Sub-Series 3: Meetings, lectures, address books Sub-Series 4: Published works Series 2: Research work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Sub-Series 1: Oral History Project at Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Sub-Series 2: Field notes at the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Sub-Series 3: Data collection forms for surveying Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Sub-Series 4: Photographs Sub-Series 5: Correspondence Series 3: Cartographic work related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Sub-Series 1: Maps curated by Prabhakar Sub-Series 2: Notes and Drafts for Map-Making Sub-Series 3: Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve conservation zones marked on Survey of India Toposheets Sub-Series 4: Historical topographical maps of the Survey of India with transparencies Sub-series 5: Unmarked toposheets from Survey of India Sub-Series 6: Miscellaneous referenced maps Series 4: Research References, Reports and Datasheets related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Sub-Series: 0
Series 1 is notes and writing. It contains notebooks and loose sheets of handwritten notes and manuscripts and printed papers of drafts and published work. These are Prabhakar's original work, including the handwritten excerpted notes.
The first sub-series consists of drafts and notes for research articles and publications related to ecology and conservation in the form of 30 notebooks, as well as loose sheets of handwritten notes and transparencies. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically. A set of transparencies has been excluded as the sheets were damaged probably due to exposure to moisture and the data was incomprehensible.
The second sub-series, Excerpted notes and bibliography, consists of excerpted notes related to the Nilgiri area in the form of 11 notebooks and several loose sheets. This includes a bibliography of a list of articles referred to from various libraries and archives across the country noted on a set of 317 index-cards. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The third sub-series, meetings, lectures, and address books, contains minutes of meetings, copy of tour schedule, and presentation drafts primarily documented on loose sheets. Also includes 2 notebooks from lectures attended at Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and 15 address books. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically. 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 published articles have been returned to the donor as these are records that have been published online and are publicly accessible.
Series 2, titled Research work related to the thesis on the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, consists of documentation using oral history, data collection forms and transect data employed by Prabhakar for his study into the Nilgiri Biosphere reserve as part of his thesis.
The first sub-series, oral history project at the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, contains 13 notebooks with transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Prabhakar in the Nilgiri area. Also includes several loose sheets with printed and handwritten oral history notes and excerpts, and printed drafts of the summaries compiled. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The second sub-series field notes at the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, primarily consists of notebooks with daily entries made during field work and data collected and analysed from transects across multiple sites in the Nilgiris. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The third sub-series data collection forms for surveying Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve contains forms created by Prabhakar to survey forest land, and village and habitation across the Nilgiri area. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The fourth sub-series titled 'Photographs', contains slides, negatives, and photographs taken by Prabhakar during field visits at the Nilgiris. They largely capture landscape, wildlife, people, and community practices. The material has been sorted into folders according to order presented in Prabhakar's catalogue for the slides. These have been catalogued according to Prabhakar's arrangement. Some of these slides have not been donated to us. The folders in the sub-series have been arranged alphabetically. Two sets of photographs - one containing family photos and the other, a repeated set of photographs of maps has been returned to the donor.
The fifth sub-series titled 'Correspondence', contains letters exchanged between Prabhakar and collaborators on field, experts, forest officials, and institutions while conducting research. It also includes a copy of an email from the GIS company IDRISI introducing their service. This sub-series has been arranged chronologically.
Series 3 is cartographic work related to the thesis. This series is largely assembled based on form. It contains Prabhakar's cartographic studies, curations, and references. One set of maps has been returned to the donor according to his request.
The first sub-series, maps curated by Prabhakar, contains maps of the Nilgiri area which have been traced and annotated by Prabhakar. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The second sub-series, notes and drafts for map-making, contains 3 notebooks and several loose sheets filled with handwritten notes for acquiring copies of maps surveying the Nilgiri area and preparation for the publication of a map alongside thesis work. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The third sub-series is Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Conservation zones marked on the Survey of India toposheets. It contains copies of toposheets of the Nilgiri Biosphere Area published by Survey of India between 1971 to 1988 with conservation zones marked by Prabhakar. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The fourth sub-series is Historical topographical maps of the Survey of India with transparency. It contains transparencies with annotations by Prabhakar traced on top of copies of toposheets of the Nilgiri Biosphere Area published by Survey of India between 1922 to 1981. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The fifth sub-series, Toposheets from Survey of India, contains copies of toposheets published by the Survey of India between 1972 to 1988 marking parts of the Nilgiris. These have been treated as reference material aiding his research by Prabhakar. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
The sixth sub-series, Miscellaneous maps, contains copies of excerpts and maps capturing vegetation, settlements, forests, and rivers in the Nilgiri area, collected from various libraries and archives. This sub-series has been arranged alphabetically.
Series 4 is titled 'Research References, Reports, and Datasheets related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. It contains copies of essays, articles, reports, data, and research material related to Indian ecology and conservation produced by others in the field and used by Prabhakar as reference. This series has been arranged alphabetically and has no sub-series.
When quoting from this material, kindly use the following format: Collection id/identifier, name of collection, Archives (Eg MS-021-1-1-1-1, R Prabhakar Papers, Archives at NCBS).
CES, Research
Folder includes a single notebook recording meetings, field notes, and research methods while working on his thesis on the Nilgiri area at the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES).
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Folder includes 2 Notebooks with notes broadly covering human impact on the environment and approaches to conservation in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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Folder includes loose printed sheets and 6 notebooks containing drafts for an unpublished book written by Prabhakar on the Nilgiris.
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Folder includes loose printed sheets and 6 notebooks containing drafts for an unpublished book written by Prabhakar on the Nilgiris.
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Folder includes loose printed sheets and 6 notebooks containing drafts for an unpublished book written by Prabhakar on the Nilgiris.
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Folder includes loose sheets containing printed drafts of unpublished articles - "Ecological History of the Nilgiri Area", "Geographical Analysis of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve Area", and "Landscape changes in the Nilgiri Area".
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Folder contains loose sheets with notes on Indian medicinal plants and trade.
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Untitled – Notes related to thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India" 1/2
Folder contains 5 notebooks and loose sheets of notes related to research for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Untitled – Notes related to thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India" 2/2
Folder contains 5 notebooks and loose sheets of notes related to research for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Folder contains 5 notebooks and loose sheets with notes related to an unpublished article by Prabhakar titled "Ecological History of the Nilgiri Area".
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Folder contains 5 notebooks and loose sheets with notes related to an unpublished article by Prabhakar titled "Ecological History of the Nilgiri Area".
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Folder contains 5 notebooks and loose sheets with notes related to an unpublished article by Prabhakar titled "Ecological History of the Nilgiri Area".
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Folder contains loose sheets and transparencies containing notes related to unpublished article titled "Maps as Markers for Ecological Change".
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Folder contains loose sheets and transparencies containing notes related to unpublished article titled "Maps as Markers for Ecological Change".
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Folder contains loose sheets and transparencies containing notes related to unpublished article titled "Maps as Markers for Ecological Change".
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SOAS, SACE, Conference, Bellagio
Folder includes single notepad with notes for an article titled "Maps as Markers for Ecological Change" presented at a conference in Bellagio.
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Folder contains a single notebook with considerations for preparing a socio-demographic charter that benefits local communities. It also includes quotes from a meeting with Dr. Vydianathan on Ayurvedic drugs and notes on the same..
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Folder includes loose sheets containing timelines and charts drafted by Prabhakar based on habitation and vegetation history of the Nilgiri area.
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Thesis outline 1/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 2/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 3/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 4/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 5/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 6/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 7/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 8/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Thesis outline 9/9
Folder contains 14 notebooks with drafts for thesis titled "Resource, Use, Culture, and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India".
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Untitled – Annual Reports of NGA (Nilgiri Game Association)
Folder contains handwritten excerpted notes compiled from annual reports of Nilgiri Wildlife and Environmental Association (NWLEA or NWLA, which was previously called NGA or Nilgiri Game Association) from 1892 to 1990. Consits of one notepad and loose sheets.
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Untitled – Bibliography Cards 1/4
Folder contains bibliography cards that have been arranged according to the referred library or archives.
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Untitled – Bibliography Cards 2/4
Folder contains bibliography cards that have been arranged according to the referred library or archives.
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Untitled – Bibliography Cards 3/4
Folder contains bibliography cards that have been arranged according to the referred library or archives.
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Untitled – Bibliography Cards 4/4
Folder contains bibliography cards that have been arranged according to the referred library or archives.
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Untitled – Census reports 1/4
Folder contains 5 handwritten notebooks and loose sheets quoting data from Census across the decades including an excerpt from the first Census of India in 1871. Additionally contains notes on Geology and Topography of the Nilgiris..
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Untitled – Census reports 2/4
Folder contains 5 handwritten notebooks and loose sheets quoting data from Census across the decades including an excerpt from the first Census of India in 1871. Additionally contains notes on Geology and Topography of the Nilgiris..
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Untitled – Census reports 3/4
Folder contains 5 handwritten notebooks and loose sheets quoting data from Census across the decades including an excerpt from the first Census of India in 1871. Additionally contains notes on Geology and Topography of the Nilgiris..
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Untitled – Census reports 4/4
Folder contains 5 handwritten notebooks and loose sheets quoting data from Census across the decades including an excerpt from the first Census of India in 1871. Additionally contains notes on Geology and Topography of the Nilgiris..
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Collected from notes of MSS Pandian
Folder contains handwritten excerpts from mutliple articles referenced by MSS Pandian in his notes on Shikar.
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Untitled – Excerpts on the ecology of Nilgiris and indigenious communities 1/2
Folder contains 1 handwritten notebook with excerpts from books at Tamil Nadu State Archives detailing history of the Nilgiri area and indigenious communities. Some noticeable excerpts include notes on Badagas, Kotas, Kurumbas, Mullu Kurumbas, Jenu Kurumbas, Kadu Kurumbas, Betta Kurumbas, Chettis, Karimpalans, Kadars, Paniyas, Mudugas, Irulas, Sholagas, Panjari Yeravas and more. Also includesexcerpted notes on flora, fauna, and vegetation types in Nilgiri..
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Untitled – Excerpts on the ecology of Nilgiris and indigenious communities 2/2
Folder contains 1 handwritten notebook with excerpts from books detailing history of the Nilgiri area and indigenious communities. Some noticeable excerpts include sections from the Madras District Gazatteer from 1908 by W Francis marked under Gold and Minerals, Forests, Exotics, Wildlife, Introduction of Trout, Archeology, Discovery of Ootacamund, tribal groups including Todas, Kotas, Irulas, Kurumbas, Chettis, Paniyas, Wayanad Agriculture and more. Some other references listed includes Maureen L P Patterson's 'South Asian Civilizations: A Bibliographic Synthesis', Babagrahi Misra's 'Sitala: The Small-Pox Goddess of India', DD Kosambi's 'At the Crossroads: Mother Goddess Cult-Sites in Ancient India' and more..
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Untitled – Government surveys and records
Folder contains 2 handwritten notebooks with excerpts from EWC Sandes' 'The Military Engineer in India' Vol. II, Survey of India (SOI), The Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS), Annual Reports of the Forest Department, and others.
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Untitled – Miscellaneous excerpted notes and Bibliography 1/4
Folder contains a notebook with exceprts related to the Nilgiri area taken from collections across various libraries and archives in India.
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Untitled – Miscellaneous excerpted notes and Bibliography 2/4
Folder contains a notebook with exceprts related to the Nilgiri area taken from collections across various libraries and archives in India.
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Untitled – Miscellaneous excerpted notes and Bibliography 3/4
Folder contains loose sheets with exceprts related to the Nilgiri area taken from collections across various libraries and archives in India.
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Untitled – Miscellaneous excerpted notes and Bibliography 4/4
Folder contains loose sheets with exceprts related to the Nilgiri area taken from collections across various libraries and archives in India.
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The Famine of 1876-1878 in South India, Roland Lardinois
Folder contains a reprint (loose sheets) of the Bibliography chapter of the book "The Famine of 1876-1878 in South India: Study of the demographic consequences of a subsistence crisis on the movement and structure of a population" by Roland Lardinois. The document is in French. .
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The Social History of the Tamils, KK Pillai
Folder contains loose sheets of handwrittten excerpt from KK Pillai's book "Social History of the Tamils".
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Untitled – Address Book, 1989 to 1993
Folder contains 7 notepads with contacts, addresses and research notes related to the Nilgiri area from 1898 to 1993.
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Folder contains 8 notepads with contacts, addresses and research notes related to the Nilgiri area from 1994 to 2005.
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Folder contains 7 notepads with contacts, addresses and research notes related to the Nilgiri area..
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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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EC302: Evolution Behaviour and Sociobiology by Dr. Raghavendra Gadagkar
Folder contains 2 notebooks with notes taken by Prabhakar while attending a course by Raghavendra Gadagkar.
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EC305: Conservation and Sustainable Development by Prof. Madhav Gadgil
Folder contains one notebook with notes taken by Prabhakar while attending a course by Madhav Gadgil.
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Evaluation Survey Meetings and Oral Histories
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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Evolution, Behaviour, and Sociobiology – Exam Sheet
Folder contains a copy of a printed question paper for a course titled "Evolution, Behaviour, and Sociobiology".
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Minutes of meeting with Dr. J P Pascal on 4th Sept. 1991
Folder contains loose sheets of printed minutes of meeting from a discussion with Dr. J P Pascal.
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Untitled – Notes for a seminar presentation
Folder contains loose sheets of handwritten notes for a seminar presentation on the Nilgiri area.
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Note prepared for the doctoral comittee meeting on 9th March 1988
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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Special Invited Lecture
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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Tentative Tour Programme of Prof. Madhav Gadgil and Thiru R. Prabhakar
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.
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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 published articles have been returned to the donor as these are records that have been published online and are publicly accessible..
Hierarchical Partitioning of Tree Diversity Across Spatial Scales
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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Maps as markers for ecological change
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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Map with insets and statistics, Uttarakhand, 2004, 1:500,000, Bhupendra Singh Mehta, Prabhakar, R Ravindranath. Folder includes 4 copies of the map..
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Map, Vegetation and Land Use, 1: 100,000, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Prabhakar, J P Pascal. Includes Eastern, Western, and Southern Sheets..
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Resource Use Culture and Ecological Change: A case study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India – Manuscript
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.
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Folder contains a single notebook with catalogue of oral history interviews for PhD thesis related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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The folder contains 2 notebooks numbered 2.0 to 2.11, with transcripts of oral history as part of thesis research. It includes interviews of people (Irula, Toda) from Anaikatti, Sirur, Pattarmund, Chinnacoonoor, on their origin, life history, social organization, myth and culture, wildlife, agriculture, livestock and land use.
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Folder conatins 2 notebooks with transcripts of oral history as part of thesis research, numbered 3.1 to 3.7. It includes notes from interviews with people (Irula, Vokkaloga Gouder) from Tengumarada, Hallimoyar, Moyar, on settlements, wildlife, agriculture, occupation, vegetation and resource use.
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Folder contains 2 notebooks with transcripts of oral history as part of thesis research, numbered 6.1 to 6.7. It includes interviews of people from Tattueri, Chinnacoonoor, Ebanad, Kodumudi, Kukkal, Kodanad on agriculture, livestock, wildlife and culture. The people interviewed consisted of Bedas, Badagas and Todas.
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Folder contains 1 notebook with transcripts of oral history as part of thesis research, numbered 6.8. It includes notes on Madhav Gadgil and NBR.
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Folder contains 1 notebook with transcripts and notes of oral history as part of thesis research, numbered 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.8. It includes notes on the Todas and the Badagas, especially in relation to agriculture, resource use and livestock. It also has information on plantations in the Nilgiris (Billigiri, Sigur and personal notes), interviews of an elephant trainer from Abhayaranyam, a fisheries worker at Avalanche, and a forest watcher at Korakunda.
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Folder contains 2 notebooks with transcripts and notes of oral history as part of thesis research, numbered 4.1 to 4.15. It includes notes on wildlife, especially the Tahr, on coffee plantations, agriculture, and interviews of people (Kotas) from Melkundali, Melur, Kotagiri, and Indra Nagar.
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Folder contains 2 notebooks with transcripts of oral history as part of thesis research, numbered 5.1 and 5.2. It includes notes from interviewing people of Vattuvayal, Masinagudi, contains details on climate, vegetation, myth, culture, wildlife, commercialization, diseases, agriculture, land use and livestock.
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Folder contains printed book of draft of oral history summaries compiled as research material for thesis work, published and archived by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science.
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Folder contains printed book of draft of oral history summaries compiled as research material for thesis work, published and archived by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science.
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Folder contains printed book of draft of oral history summaries compiled as research material for thesis work, published and archived by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science. Contains transcripts only till OH 6.8.
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Folder contains 2 books contatining draft of oral history summaries compiled as research material for thesis work, published and archived by Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science.
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Folder contains printed and handwritten loose sheets with notes and excerpts from oral history interviews taken for PhD thesis related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. It includes notes from interviews addressing topics like wildlife conflict, resource use, agriculture, climate, and trade. It also contains details of plantations and tea estates in the Nilgiris.
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Folder contains printed and handwritten loose sheets with notes and excerpts from oral history interviews taken for PhD thesis related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. It has notes on how oral history can help in the reconstruction of history, especially that relating to environmental or resource-use change.
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Folder contains printed and handwritten loose sheets with notes and excerpts from oral history interviews taken for PhD thesis related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. This file contains typed notes from interviews with the people of the Nilgiris, and their thoughts on changes in land and resource use, agriculture, livestock, environmental catastrophes, and diseases.
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Folder contains printed loose sheets containing summaries of oral history at the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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Voices of the Nilgiri Plateau
Folder contains printed loose sheets part of oral history project related to the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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Untitled – Draft of schedule prepared for data collection
Folder contains loose printed sheets which is a draft of the form prepared to collect vegetation and habitation data alongside the oral history peoject at the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Untitled – Field notes and excerpted notes from reports
Folder contains a single notebook and loose sheets regarding field notes for thesis at Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. One of the pages includes a note to Prabhakar regarding the GIS Arc-Info. Has reference to tribals in Attapadi taluk, Kerala.
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Field work journal
Folder contains a single notebook with entries made regularly during field work at the Nilgiri area for thesis.
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Untitled – Vegetation density data of transects
3 sets of loose sheets recording vegetation density data of transects under study as part of thesis research.
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Vegetation Samples
3 notebooks and loose sheets listing species such as teakwood and axlewood found in strips of land under study in the Nilgiris as part of thesis research. The samples or strips are observed for vegetation species found along with descriptions of its family, girth, height, and bole..
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Vegetation Sample Analysis and Outlines
Folder contains a single notebook with notes on how vegetation data must be collected and evaluated from strips of land at the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve .
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Folder contains loose oversized sheets with revisions to copies of a dbf data file created from field research at the Nilgiri area. .
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Folder contains forms titled F1.2, F1.3, F2.1, F2.2 used in research and data collection.
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Folder contains loose sheets of schema for collecting and oragnising data from research at the Nilgiri area..
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Folder contains loose sheets of a season and crop statistical report in Tamil..
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Transect forms for research related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve titled V1.1 to V1.8.
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Folder contains a single floppy disk. Contents of the disk are yet to be surveyed..
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Includes untitled slides and negatives related to Prabhakar's research at the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and photos of him at a gathering..
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Untitled – Photographs related to maps
Contains slides and negatives capturing topographical and contour maps of the Nilgiris including maps published by Prabhakar and J P Pascal.
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Roll I - Slides 1 to 37
Containing 36 slides capturing Sholur Landscape, Sigur Pleateau, and a Foundry..
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Roll II - Slides 1 to 20
Contains 18 slides capturing Aravalla Reserve Forest, Madumalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Elephants, and Nightjar chicks. Some slides are missing..
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Contains 34 slides capturing Moyar, Sigur, Tengumarada, River, Wild Animals, Independence Day Celebration.
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Roll IV - Slides 1 to 36
Contains 38 slides capturing parts of Periyar including Mangaladevi Temple, Periyar Reservoir, and Periyar Tiger Reserve. Contains extra untitled slides..
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Contains 33 slides capturing Toda people, Shola landscape, forest, and grassland. Some slides are missing..
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Contains 35 slides capturing Kota people, Sigur and Sholur landscape, Carrot harvesting and other other cultivation. Some slides are missing.
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Roll 7 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 36 slides capturing the cardamom plantation and neighboring areas of Bombay Burmah Trading Company (BBTC) estate and Tamaraibharani river. Some slides are missing..
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Roll 8 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 37 slides capturing Sengaltheri Rest House, parts of Kalakkad, and a tree lizard..
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Roll 9 - Slides 1 to 24
Contains 23 slides capturing Badaga village in Ketti valley, Coonoor town, and professor Paul Hockings, who has written extensively on the Nilgiris and the Badaga community. One slide is missing..
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Roll 10 - Slides 1 to 26
Contains 24 slides capturing Melkote temple, Anaikatti, and Bandipur. Some slides are missing..
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Contains 20 slides capturing cultivation and Paniya people at Mandakarai. One slide is missing..
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Roll 13 - Slides 1 to 39
Contains 37 slides capturing parts of Mandakarai, Mandakamalai, Koppur, Nagampalli, and Kargudi. Some slides missing..
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Contains 35 slides capturing hero stones at Anaikatti, burial sites at Mangalapatti, Masikarimbattarayan temple, parts of Masipatti, Kootrapatti, and Konimasipatti.
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Contains 37 slides capturing burial sites at Irula people, burial sites, dolmens, and inscriptions in Anaikatti and Sirur.
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Roll 16 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 39 slides capturing parts of Silent Valley particularly Poochipara and Sairandhri..
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Roll 17 - Slides 1 to 35
Contains 34 slides capturing views from Vazhakkad and Poochipara of Sholas, coffee cultivation sites, and strangler figs. One slide is missing .
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Roll 18 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 38 slides capturing areas in Masinagudi. Valleys, burial sites, and agricultural lands neighboring Moyar river are also included..
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Roll 19 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 38 slides capturing Upper Bhavani areas..
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Roll 20 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 38 slides capturing Mukurthi hill and reservoir area.
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Contains 37 slides capturing the journey to Moyar for Chikkamman festival along with celebrations and festivities.
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Roll 22 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 38 slides capturing Avalanche Reservoir and Upper Bhavani.
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Roll 23 - Slides 1 to 39
Contains 40 slides capturing Yemmani Puzha and Shola-Grasslands. Includes one extra slide..
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Roll 24 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 38 slides capturing Sholas in Bison Swamp and Todas in Kundah area.
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Contains 13 slides of maps and satellite SPOT and LANDSAT images of the Nilgiris. Slide folder needs to be replaced..
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Contains 36 negatives capturing Badagas and hero stones in Cinnacoonoor area, Kota village from Tiruchigadi, plantations in Kukalthorai and Kotagiri-Kodanad. Also includes scenes of plantations, forests and Betta Kurumbas in O'Valley area. A few negatives are missing..
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Roll 28 - Color positive film 1 to 37
Contains 34 negatives capturing scenes from Devala area, Kappala, Kallichal, and Gudalur. Also includes photos of Dolmen, hero stones, and statues with inscription in Bandipur and Melur. A few negatives are missing..
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Roll 29 - Color positive film 1 to 37
Contains 37 negatives capturing meeting of NGOs with conservationist Major Richard Radcliffe at Coimbatore, Bolampatti slopes, Siruvani hill area, Muthikulam falls, Anaikatti, Velliyankadu, and Attikkadavu area..
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Contains 38 negatives capturing families and paddy fields in Trichur, parts of Masinagudi and Bokkapuram, Moyar river, and Major Richard Radcliffe gardening at his farm in Talakundah. Also includes an extra untitled photo. .
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Roll 31 - Color positive film 1 to 35
Contains 38 negatives capturing scenes from Doddagatti area, Abhayaranyam elephant camp, loading of fodder cut in Masinagudi-Teppakadu road, and Megalithic member sites at Bandipur. Also includes extra untitled photos..
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Roll 32 - Slides 1 to 37
Contains 38 slides capturing agricultural fields, flowers, and trees of Mulli area. Includes photos from Saranga area. Folder contains one extra untitled slide. Slides folder must be replaced..
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Contains 40 slides capturing livestock, cattle, agricultural fields, idol statues, fishing, and Moyar river in Tengumarada village. Also includes photos of Madhav Gadgil and a star turtle. Folder contains 2 extra untitled slides.Slides folder must be replaced..
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Roll 34 - Slides 1 to 39
Contains 39 slides capturing parts of Erode including produce such as Eucalyptic wood, Bamboo, and Bagasse. Also includes view of Talamalai plateau and photos of FD and Madhav Gadgil. Slides folder must be replaced..
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Roll 35 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 38 slides capturing views of vegetation cultivation, collectorate, township, church, and meeting with NGOs at Ooty, and Badaga village at Kottadai.
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Roll 36 - Slides 1 to 38
Contains 39 slides capturing cultivation at Chembakulli and Srimadurai, Gene Pool project site, Marvakandi Dam, Teppekadu, and cattle fair on the Mysore-Bangalore road. Also includes an extra untitled slide.
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Contains 33 slides capturing views of Kalhatti plateau, Sigur plateau, and Chinnacoonoor valley. Also includes photos of hero stone clusters at Kavilore and Badaga villages and people. .
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Slides Catalogue by R Prabhakar
A printed catalogue prepared by Prabhakar to identify photographs taken during field work for his research related to Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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Folder contains letters related to the curating and printing of Vegetation and Land Use Map of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, includes permissions taken from the Ministry of Environment and Forests..
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IDRISI Geographic Information System (GIS)
Folder contains printed copy of an email from TerrSet (formerly called IDRISI) providing an overview of their geospatial monitoring and modeling software. Included with the letter are captures of geospatial information from IRS 1D satellite highliting elevation zones and valleys in Pitoragarh area. These were most possibly used for his research of forest conservation in the Himalyas..
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Folder contains letters exchanged between the biologist R Arumugam, stationed at Masinagudi, and Prabhakar with updates on life and work. Also included are maps of Gudalur taluk showing village boundaries and Village Revenue Officer's (VAO) jurisdiction..
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Ramesh, B
Folder contains a copy of a letter to Dr. B Ramesh, The Head of NRSA Data Centre requesting SPOT satellite images of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve between 1989 to 1992..
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Folder contains a draft of legend for maps related to thesis on Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve sent to Thomas Burton, a Zoologist at Michigan State University, for comments..
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Folder contains feedback letters from Neil Pelkey, an expert in bioinformatics and environmental science, for Prabhakar's writing on the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, along with ideas for a book on the same..
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Folder contains blueprint working sheets produced by Prabhakar during his study of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains blueprint working sheets produced by Prabhakar during his study of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains landscape and Thematic maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve detailing Communications, Drainagae Basins, Rainfall, Settlements, River Systems, Grazing Pressure, and Vegetation, Ammonia prints with colored annotations by Prabhakar..
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Folder contains Eastern, Southern, and Western Sheet, for Vegetation and Land Use Map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve as well as proof sheets prepared with JP Pascal from French Institute, Pondicherry..
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Cartographic Data Base
Folder contains a key to collecting and mapping Survey of India maps for the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Untitled – Notes, Legend curation for map
Folder contains notes and drafts for the curation of a legend for a land use and vegetation map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
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Untitled – Notes, Map-making 1/4
Folder contains 3 notebooks with handwritten notes on map-making..
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Untitled – Notes, Map-making 2/4
Folder contains 1 notebook and loose sheets with handwritten notes on map-making..
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Untitled – Notes, Map-making 3/4
Folder contains 1 notebook with handwritten notes on map-making..
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Untitled – Notes, Map-making 4/4
Folder contains loose sheets with handwritten notes on map-making..
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Untitled – Notes, Satellite image collection
Folder contains loose sheets with notes on satellite image collection, list of SPOT satellite images from LANDSAT and drawings of the key in preparation of a map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Piches Pluviometrie
Folder contains loose sheets, partly in french, with records of rainfall across various distrcts of the Nilgiris..
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains topographical maps of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve published by Survey of India with hand-drawn tracings of zone demarcation made by Prabhakar.
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Folder contains photocopies of maps from the Survey of India archive, color coded and annotated with an overlay tracing sheet by Prabhakar to show Vegetation types in the Nilgiri area..
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Folder contains photocopies of maps from the Survey of India archive, color coded and annotated with an overlay tracing sheet by Prabhakar to show Vegetation types in the Nilgiri area..
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Folder contains photocopies of maps from the Survey of India archive, color coded and annotated with an overlay tracing sheet by Prabhakar to show Vegetation types in the Nilgiri area..
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Folder contains photocopies of maps from the Survey of India archive, color coded and annotated with an overlay tracing sheet by Prabhakar to show Vegetation types in the Nilgiri area..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Folder contains photocopies of Survey of India maps collected by Prabhakar for his thesis related to vegetation, culture, and land use in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve..
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Untitled – Vegetation and rainfall maps
Folder contains excerpted maps and figures such as a map of ootacamund and neighbouring area for average rainfall density, northern-tropical semi-moist eco-systems, tropical moist and dry ecosystems, illustrations of various kinds of evergreen forests, and a map of india with biogeographic regions and potential area of vegetation types marked..
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Folder includes a map of Mudumulai block showing details of plantations with year and compartment boundaries.
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Untitled – Border and land zones map of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
Folder contains maps of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve with markings for border and land zones.
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Untitled – Boundary and Vegetation Map of Nilgiri area
Folder contains map of the study area in Pudu Panchayat, map of the Nilgiiri area with the reserve and interstate boundary marked, and a vegetation map of the Nilgiri Biosphere Area .
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Untitled – Map, Nilgiri District, 1907, Copy
Folder contains a map of the Nilgiri district from Survey Office, Madras with annotations from Prabhakar.
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Map, Nilgiri Hills, Map of Main Vegetation Types from LANDSAT imagery
Folder contains a map of the Main Vegetation Types in the Nilgiri Hills from LANDSAT Imagery prepared by MF Bellana and F Blasco from Paul Sabatier University
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Folder contains a copy of the map of south India prepared by Army Map Service and the US Army and compiled in 1953. Sent through post by William Skelton. Map of India, 1940s, from America" , Scale = 1:250,000.
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Folder contains a copy of the Map of the Neilgherry Mountains, 1856, produced by Captain J Ouchterlony for the Neilgherry Survey.
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Map of Sensitivity of Forests of Karnataka
Folder contains a copy of a map of Mercara-Mysore detailing the sensitivity of forests of Karnataka prepared by Martine Berger under the direction of JP Pascal.
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Untitled – Map, Published by French Institute Pondicherry
Folder contains map published by the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and French Institute of Pondicherry including annotations from Prabhakar.
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Folder contains a copy of a map of south of Mysore, stored as a microfilm by the Tamil Nadu State Archives, Madras.
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Peninsula of India from the Kistnah River to the Cape Comorin – Map
Folder contains a copy of the 1800s map "Peninsula of India from the Kistnah River to the Cape Comorin" kept at the Harvard College Library.
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Folder contains a copy of a "Plan of the compounds in the contonment of Ootacamund" published by the Survey Office in Madras in May 1879 .
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Folder contains a copy of Sportsman's Shikar Map of the Nilgiris .
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cut up copies of topographical maps from SOI includes annotations from Prabhakar, carried for markings during field work.
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cut up copies of topographical maps from SOI includes annotations from Prabhakar, carried for markings during field work.
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cut up copies of topographical maps from SOI includes annotations from Prabhakar, carried for markings during field work.
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Article by Dan H Nicolson, CR Suresh, and KS Manilal. Issued by French Institute Pondicherry.
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Article by F Blasco of French Institute Pondicherry, published in the Journal of Bombay Natural History Society.
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Copies of articles by VM Meher-Homji, 1967-1975.
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Folder contains article by A Bowyer published in The Computer Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1981.
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Data collected during 1991 by the Health Department
The villagewise population data of Nilgiris collected by the Health Department in 1991, issued by National Informatics Centre.
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Handwritten sheets with rice, wheat, barley, coffee, tea, ragi and other crops produced across the Nilgiris between 1902 to 1987.
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includes details from the Annual General Meeting held on 7th March 1977 by the association for gaming liscences in the Nilgiris.
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Book review of Global Deforestation and the Nineteenth Century World Economy by RP Tucker and JF Richards. Review was published in Forest Ecology and Management, No. 14, 1986.
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Details of Minor Forest Produce from Large Area Multipurpose Societies between 1960s to 1980s.
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Article by SC Agarwal, US Madan, S Chinnamani, ND Rege, published in Ecological Studies in the Nilgiris.
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Printed loose sheets with essays related to ecology, history and intersections with colonization, trade, and agriculture, extracted from various publications
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Excerpts from the book Classification and Mapping of Tropical Vegetation Types in Asia.
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Tea production data from Kodanad Tea Estate
Handwritten notes on tea produced from Kodanad Tea Estate.
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Livestock data for 1987-91 in Sigur Plateau
Handwritten notes with livestock data from Sigur Plateau between 1987 - 1991.
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Article published in Economic and Political Weekly.
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Printed loose sheets - A copy of Making Maps with Computers, Stephen C Coptill, Lowell E Starr, American Scientist, 1988
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Article by P Legris and V M Meher-Homji.
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Printed loose sheets of the article 'Pressure and Resource Dependency of Masinagudi Group of Villages on the Surrounding Elephant Habitat' by C S Silori and B K Mishra.
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Loose sheets containing rainfall data of Marvella Estate between 1972 to 1991.
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includes details of Kundah reservoir and 2 maps.
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Salisbury Industrial Co-operation Tea Factory – Excerpt
Handwritten notes on Salisbury Industrial Co-operation Tea Factory.
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Short History of the Bilirangan Estates, CWG Morris – Excerpt
Typed loose sheets with excerpt from Short History of Bilirangan Estates by CWG Morgan.
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Handwritten loose sheets.
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Statistics from the United Planters Association of South India, data on area under cultivation
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Printed loose sheets.
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Printed loose sheets.
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Article by Girija Prasad Majumdar.
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Vertebrate Fauna of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve", Ranjit Daniels
Printed loose sheets.
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