| Semester I | Paper I (Ancient and Bhakti Period Poetry) | |
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| Unit I | Ancient Hindi Poetry: Introduction and History | |
| Unit II | Bhakti Period Hindi Poetry: Bhakti Movement, Major Theories, Nirguna Poetry – Knowledge Path, Love Path, Saguna Poetry – Ram Bhakti, Krishna Bhakti, Sufi Poetry | Bhakti Period, Bhakti Movement, Bhramar Geet Saar |
| Unit III | Chand Bardai and his Poetry | |
| Unit IV | Kabir and his Poetry | Kabir Das, Social Awareness in Kabir’s Poetry |
| Unit V | Jaaysi and his Poetry | Explanation of Jaaysi Poetry, Message of Jaaysi Poetry, Jaaysi |
| Unit VI | Surdas and his Poetry | Surdas, |
| Unit VII | Tulsidas and his Poetry | |
| Semester I | Paper II (Hindi Language: Grammar) | |
| Unit I | Letter Analysis: Hindi Alphabet: Pronunciation and Classification of Vowels and Consonants | |
| Unit II | Hindi Spelling: Standardization of Hindi Spelling, Word and Spelling Analysis, Incorrect Spellings and their Correction | |
| Unit III | Word Analysis: Classification of Words Based on Grammar (Declinable and Indeclinable Words) | |
| Unit IV | Hindi Word Formation – Compound Words, Sandhi (Joining), Prefix, Suffix, Word Definition, Classification Based on Structure – Rooted, Compound, Combined; Based on History – Tatsam, Tadbhav, Desi, Deshaj, Foreign, and Shankar Words; Based on Meaning – Synonyms, Antonyms, and Polysemous Words, One Word Substitution for Phrases | Language and Grammar |
| Unit V | Technical Terms: Meaning, Definition, Hindi Equivalents of English Technical Terms, Hindi Technical Terms and their English Equivalents | |
| Unit VI | Punctuation Marks and their Usage | |
| Unit VII | Sentence Formation, Types of Sentences, Sentence Analysis, Sentence Synthesis, Sentence Correction |
| Semester I | Physical Geography | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Meaning, Scope and Branches of Physical Geography, Origin of Universe, Solar system and Earth. Geological Time Scale, Theories of Laplace, Chamberlin, James Jeans, Jeffreys, and Hoyle & Lyttleton, Interior of the earth, Rocks: origin and classification. | Interior of the Earth, Rocks and Their Types, |
| Unit ll | Origin of continents and ocean basins: Continental drift and convectional current theories, Plate Tectonics, Isostasy, Earth movements, Endogenetic forces, landforms: Mountains, Plateau and Plains, Gradational processes, Weathering and Erosion, normal cycle of erosion, Arid, Glacial, Marine and Karst topographies, Vulcanicity and Earthquakes. | Earthquake Disaster, Earthquake and Seismology, The Structure of the Earth and Plate Tectonics, Disaster and Their Management, Continental Drift Theory |
| Unit lll | Soil as a basic component of environment, Soil profile (Soil horizon): Characteristics and Significance, Processes and factors of soil formation. Biodiversity and Biosphere, Biotic succession, Biomes and their types, Zoogeographical regions of the world. Biodiversity conservation. | |
| Unit lV | Composition and structure of atmosphere, Insolation, Vertical and Horizontal Distribution of temperature, Pressure and pressure belts, Winds: Planetary, Periodic and Local. Humidity, Clouds and Precipitation, Cyclones and Anticyclones. | |
| Unit V | Ocean bottom topography, Ocean deposits, Salinity, Temperature, Ocean currents, Tides and Coral reefs. | |
| Semester l | Basic Cartographic Techniques and Map Readings | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Meaning, importance and types of Scale, Conversion of Scale, Construction of Plain, Comparative and Diagonal Scale. Methods of enlargement and reduction of maps. | |
| Unit ll | Definition, nature and scope of cartography, Globe and maps, Essentials of maps, History of map making, Types and uses of maps, Elements of map reading. | Map Study, Map Study Reading & Interpretation |
| Unit lll | Cartographic representation of relief: Hachures, Contours, Form line, Spot height, Bench mark, Trig point, Layer tint; Interpolation of contours. | |
| Unit lV | Indian topographical map system: Their classification and types. Interpretation of topographical maps and preparation of base map, index map, drainage map, toporographic map, land use map, settlement map and transportation network map. | |
| Unit V | Indian weather maps: Interpretation and preparation of weather report, Meteorological instruments; Barometer, Thermometer (Minimum, Maximum, Dry and Wet bulb), Rain gauge, Wind vane and Anemometer. |
| Semester II | Human Geography | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Definition and scope of Human Geography; human versus physical geography; branches of Human Geography; Development of Human Geography; Contributions of German and French Geographers. Contribution of Indian Geographers. | |
| Unit ll | Schools: Determinism, possibilism, welfare or humanistic and positivism; Approaches: ecological, landscape, locational, welfare and humanistic. | |
| Unit lll | Elements of environment; physical and human environment; constraints and opportunities of the environment; impact of environment on man; impact of man on environment; environmental problems; pollution, natural hazards, and climate change. | Our Environment, |
| Unit lV | Evolution of man: Classification of races, Characteristics of races and their world distribution, Human adaptation to the environment: Eskimo, Bushman and Masai. Tribes of India; habitat, economy and culture with special reference to Naga, Bhil, Santhal, Gaddi, Bhotia, and Tharu tribes. | |
| Unit V | Human Settlements: Origin, types and patterns (Rural and Urban) characteristics, House types and their distribution with special reference to India. | |
| Semester ll | Surveying Techniques | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Fundamentals of Surveying: Objects, Primary divisions of survey, Classification. | |
| Unit ll | Plane Table Surveying: Radiation, Intersection, Close Traverse, Open Traverse, Resection by two point and three-point problems. | |
| Unit lll | Surveying by Prismatic Compass: Close Traverse, Open Traverse, and Correction of bearing. | |
| Unit lV | Measurement of height and depth by Indian Pattern Clinometer. | |
| Unit V | Use and Applications of GPS in surveying |
| Semester III | Tourism Geography | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Concept of Leisure and Tourism; Development of Tourism; Types of Tourism; Definition, Scope and Significance of Geography of Tourism; Geographical Basis of Tourism; Resources and Infrastructure for Tourism: Transportation, Accommodation and Basic Infrastructure. | |
| Unit ll | Impact of Tourism: Physical, Economic, Social and Cultural Impacts; Concept of Ecotourism; New Emerging Trends in Tourism. Statistics of tourism and data collection. | |
| Unit lll | Tourism Marketing: Marketing Concepts and Marketing in Tourism; The Tourist Product; Segmentation- A Priori Segmentation; Tourism Circuits; Tour Agencies. Components of a Tourism Plan, The Tourism Planning Process. | |
| Unit lV | Globalization and Tourism; Tourism in India; Resource and Growth; National Tourism Policy in India; Tourism Organizations. Role of WTO, IATA, UPTAA, AI, IATO, etc. in promotion and development of tourism | |
| Unit V | Sustainable Tourism Development in Uttarakhand: Policies and Planning for Tourism Development; Tourism Carrying Capacity and Limits of Acceptable Change; Pro-Poor Tourism (PPT); Environmental, Cultural, Social and Historical Attractions with special reference to Uttarakhand Himalaya; Framework for Monitoring Sustainability of Tourism in Uttarakhand. | |
| Semester lll | Thematic Cartography | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Cartography: Meaning, Rules and Methods of Geographical data representation, Types of Diagrams, Graph, Distribution maps and cartogram. Isopleth and choropleth maps. | |
| Unit ll | Cartographic representation of geographical data by (a) dot method (b) proportional sphere method and circle method. Representation of economic data; Agricultural, land use, production and industrial data. | |
| Unit lll | Representation of population data; Growth, distribution and employment. | |
| Unit lV | Representation of climatic data; Climatograph, Climograph and Hythergraph. | |
| Unit V | Drainage ordering, Slope analysis; Wentworth’s and Smith’s methods. |
| Semester IV | Regional Planning and Development | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Regional concept in geography: Concept, Scope & purpose of regional planning, Types of regions: Formal and functional; uniform and nodal, single purpose and composite region. | |
| Unit ll | Regional Planning: Planning process – sectoral, temporal and spatial dimensions; short-term and long-term perspective planning, Indicators of development and their data sources, measuring levels for regional development and disparities, Planning for regional development and multiregional planning in national context | |
| Unit lll | Regional development strategies: Concentration vs. dispersal, Case studies for plans of developed and developing countries, Regional planning and development in India through Five year plans, problems and prospects, Regional disparities: causes and consequences. | |
| Unit lV | Concept of Multi-level planning: Decentralized planning; peoples participation in the planning process, Concept and approaches of urban development, Landscape ecology and sustainable urban development, Application of remote sensing and Geographic Information System in Development Planning. | |
| Unit V | Theories and Models for Regional Planning: Growth Pole Model of Perroux; Myrdal, Hirschman, Rostow and Friedmann. | |
| Semester lV | Quantitative Techniques and Map Projections | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Data; Meaning, and Types, Collection of data, Sampling Techniques and Methods, Measures of central tendency: Mean, Mode, and Median. | आंकड़े, आंकड़ो का प्रदर्शन, Block Pill Diagram |
| Unit ll | Measures of dispersion; Mean Deviation, Quartile Deviation and Standard deviation, Correlation; Karl Pearson’s and Spearman’s methods. | |
| Unit lll | Definition, Necessity and Classification of map projection, Mathematical method of drawing projections, Construction of map projections; Simple conical projection with one and two standard parallels, Bonne’s projection, Polyconic projection. | |
| Unit lV | Cylindrical projections; Equidistant and Equal area cylindrical projections, Mercator’s, Gall’s stereographic projection. | |
| Unit V | Zenithal Projections; Polar zenithal equidistant, Equatorial zenithal equidistant, Polar zenithal equal-area, Equatorial zenithal equal-area. |
| Semester V | Geography of India | Paper l |
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| Unit l | India- A subcontinent, Physical features, Geologic structure, Drainage system, Climate, Natural vegetation, Soils, Natural regions. | भारत का भौगोलिक स्वरूप एवं इसका अपवाह तन्त्र, |
| Unit ll | Agriculture, Crops (Food, plantation and commercial), Agriculture production, Agriculture regions, Irrigation, Livestock raising and Fishery. | |
| Unit lll | Industries; Metallurgical, Textile, Engineering, Chemical, Food, Leather, Forest and Agro-industries, Industrial regions, Minerals and Power resources. | |
| Unit lV | Population (density, distribution and urbanization), Multipurpose projects. Regional development and planning, Regional disparities, Five-year plans, Integrated rural development programme, Panchayati raj, Command area and watershed management. | |
| Unit V | Transportation; Roads and railways, air transportation and pipeline transportation. Trade; Internal and External (Trend, composition and direction); SEZ (Special Economic Zones). | |
| Semester V | Economic Geography | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Meaning, aim and scope of economic geography, Resources: Meaning, classification, conservation and concepts, Economic landscapes. | |
| Unit ll | Primary production, Vegetation & forest economy, Soil resources, Mineral resources (Iron ore and bauxite), Power resources (Coal, Petroleum and Hydroelectricity), Resource conservation. | |
| Unit lll | Main crops in the world; Wheat, paddy, sugarcane, coffee and tea. industries; Iron & steel, textiles, petro-chemical and sugar. | |
| Unit lV | Theory of industrial location; Weber and Losch, Industrial regions of India and World. | |
| Unit V | World transportation; trans-continental railways, sea and air routes, international trade, patterns and trends, trade blocks: NAFTA, EEC, ASEAN, G7 and G20, Globalization and developing countries. |
| Semester VI | Evolution of Geographical Thoughts | Paper l |
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| Unit l | Definition and purpose of Geography, Science and philosophy of Geography, The basic concepts of Geography, Techniques and tools in Geography, Different branches of Geography, Relationship of Geography with other Sciences. | |
| Unit ll | Geography in classical times; Greek and Roman Geographers, Contribution by Arab Geographers. | |
| Unit lll | Renaissance, Eighteenth century Geography, Development of Geographical Thought in India; Ancient and Modern. Contribution of Important Indian Geographers. | |
| Unit lV | Formulation of scientific Geography, Schools of thoughts; German, French, British, American and former Soviet Union. Environmental determinism, possibilism, Neo-determinism and probabilism. | |
| Unit V | Dualism in Geography, Dichotomy of scientific and regional Geography; Unity in Geography, Concept of Regions and regionalization, Quantitative Geography, Recent Trends in Geography. | |
| Semester Vl | Agricultural Geography | Paper ll |
| Unit l | Nature, scope, significance and development of Agriculture Geography, Approaches to the study of Agricultural Geography; Commodity, systematic, regional, behavioral and recent approaches etc., Origin and dispersal of agriculture. | |
| Unit ll | Determinants of agricultural land use; Physical, economic, social and technological factors, Land holding and land tenure systems in India, Land use and land capability. | |
| Unit lll | Agricultural efficiency Concepts, Techniques and Methods of measurements; Methods of delimiting crop combination region, cropping pattern, crop concentration, intensity of cropping, degree of commercialization, diversification and specialization. | |
| Unit lV | Theories of Agriculture Geography, Von Thunen’s theory (model) of agricultural location and its recent modifications, Demarcation of Agricultural regions, Whittlesey’s classification of agricultural regions. | |
| Unit V | Regional pattern of productivity in India, Green Revolution, White Revolution, Food deficit and food surplus regions; World pattern of Agriculture: Subsistence agriculture, Commercial farming, Plantation agriculture, Mixed agriculture, State, collective and cooperative farming. | |
| Semester Vl | Basics of Remote Sensing and GIS | Paper lll |
| Unit l | Remote Sensing; Components of Remote Sensing, Thermal and Radar Remote Sensing; Image Processing Techniques; Visual and Digital, Classification: Supervised and Unsupervised. | |
| Unit ll | GIS; Geographic Data Types; Spatial and Non-Spatial Data; Raster and Vector Data, Linkages and Matching, Principal Functions of GIS; Data Capture; Geographic Analysis; Scanning System; Data Conversion, Data Base Management System (DBMS), Data Base and Spatial Data Management; Geo- Relational Data Model; Topological Data Structure; Attribute Data Management; Relational Database-Concepts & Model, Digital Elevation Model (DEM); Process, Derivatives and applications. | |
| Unit lll | Geo-Referencing and Its Importance. Spatial Data Integration (Digitization) – Point, Line, Polygon. Map Design or Layout, Map Production. Import And Export of Map in Various Formats. | |
| Unit lV | Satellite Data and its type. Downloading Sources of Satellite Data (Google Earth, USGS, GLCF Etc.). Download Process Satellite Imagery. Remote Sensing data download from open sources. | |
| Unit V | GIS Software (Including Open-Source Softwares). Creation of Shape files in GIS Softwares. Geo-Referencing and Digitization in GIS Software. Attribute Data Entry, Manipulation of Fields and Attribute Data. |