February 27, 2021
Satavahanas became prominent in the Indian political scene sometime in the middle of the first century BC. Gautamiputra Satakarni (first century AD) is considered to be the greatest of the Satavahana rulers
February 27, 2021
Suppose a ray of light (IO) falls on a reflecting surface AB at O, after reflection it goes along OR. The reflection of light from the surface takes place according to the following two laws.
February 27, 2021
Out of the total geographical area (328 million hectares), land utilisation statistics are available for 305 million hectares only. The balance 23 million hectares remains unsurveyed and inaccessible.
February 26, 2021
The Deccan as well as eastern India were parts of Ashoka’s empire. He had conquered Kalinga through a violent battle in which loss of men and property was enormous. It was as a result of the Mauryan rule in these regions that after its decline we notice the emergence of kingdoms in Kalinga and the Deccan for the first time in the Indian history.
February 26, 2021
India is a planned economy. Its development process has been continuing through five year plan since the first plan period during 1951-56. The advantage of planning is very well known.
February 26, 2021
Light is the common form of energy. It makes the objects visible to us. When you see an object you do so because light from the object enters in your eyes. Some objects such as sun, stars, burning candles, lamp, etc. which emit light by their own are called luminous objects.
February 26, 2021
Land is basic resource. Throughout history, we have drawn most of our sustenance and much of fuel, clothing and shelter from the land. It is useful to us as a source of food, as a place to live, work and play.
February 25, 2021
The Kushanas, originally belonged to western China. They are also called Yueh-chis. The Kushanas after defeating Shakas and Pahlavas created a big empire in Pakistan. The first prominent ruler of the Kushana dynasty was Kujula Kadphises.
February 25, 2021
At the time of independence, one of the major problem of Indian economy was deficiency in capital stock in the form of land and building, machinery and equipment, saving, etc.
February 25, 2021
When two bodies at different temperatures are kept in contact, heat is transferred from the hot body to the cold body till both of them acquire the same temperature. The two bodies then are called in thermal equilibrium. In acquiring thermal equilibrium the hot body loses heat and the cold body acquires an equal amount of heat.
February 25, 2021
Abiotic resources include land resources, water resources and mineral resources.
February 24, 2021
The Parthians were of Iranian origin and because of strong cultural connection with the Shakas, these groups were referred to in the Indian sources as Shaka-Pahlava.
February 24, 2021
Another very disheartening thing about India is that it has world’s largest number of poor people. As per reports of government of India, in 2011-12 about 269.3 million people in India were poor. This was about 22 percent of India's population.
February 24, 2021
When we use the term ‘distribution’ in the discipline of geography our main concern remain with geographical or spatial distribution of geographical phenomena. Otherwise, distribution for a sociologist primarily mean distribution among different social classes in a society.
February 23, 2021
Shaka is the Indian term used for the people called Scythians, who originally belonged to central Asia. Defeated by their neighbours the Yueh-chis (the tribal stock to which the Kushanas belonged) they gradually came to settle in northwestern India around Taxila in the first century BC.
February 23, 2021
Every material (except water which contracts on heating from 0°C to 4°C) expands on heating. The increase in the size of a body on heating is called thermal expansion.
February 23, 2021
Resources can be classified in several ways: one the bases of (i) renewability, (ii) origin and (iii) utility. The objective of classification would primarily decide how we put a resource under a particular category.
February 22, 2021
After the death of Alexander in 323 BC, many Greeks came to settle on the northern western borders of India with Bactria (area to the north-west of the Hindukush mountains in the present day north Afghanistan) as an important centre.
February 22, 2021
The term resource generally means the things of utility for the humans. It could be both natural as well as cultural. Humans develop technologies to utilise nature favourably.
February 21, 2021
The last Mauryan king was killed by his Commander-in-Chief, Pushyamitra Shunga, who then established his own dynasty in north India. It came to be known as Shunga dynasty.
February 21, 2021
When a body is heated changes may occur in some of its properties .These changes are the effects of heat.
February 21, 2021
Cyclones are centers of low atmospheric pressure, in which the air pressure increases from the centre to the outer areas. Consequently winds flow from outside to the centres. In cyclones winds blow in an anti-clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere and in clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
February 20, 2021
Sudden shaking or trembling of the earth surface is an earthquake. Most earthquake are a minor tremor. Larger earthquakes usually begin with slight tremors but suddenly they turn into violent shocks and after that the intensity of shocks diminishes.
February 20, 2021
Mauryan Empire was spread over a large part of the Indian sub-continent and also included Kandahar in modern Afghanistan. In around 187 BC, the Mauryan Empire met its end.