Map produced in India, showing the provinces in different colours. The network of designated national highways is shown with the highway numbers & other major roads. Railways are marked & a large number of towns. The map also

Includes:: a distance chart & an index. The map is on waterproof paper &

Includes:: a booklet which lists places of interest in each state.



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India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software & service companies abound. Millionaire entrepreneurs are springing up at every turn. Bollywood is going global & Indian expats are flooding back home. What's more, these changes are occurring within the world's largest democracy
- a far cry from neighbouring China. But who & what lies behind India's apparent ascendency? In India Rising Oliver Balch takes the voices & stories of everyday Indians & presents a fresh, vivid, highly personalised account of the changes as they are unfolding. Travelling the length & breadth of the country, Balch leads readers off the tourist trail & onto the streets of modern day India. From cricket stadiums & shopping malls to rural schools & shanty towns, the book blends the best of reportage & travel writing to get under the skin of this nation in transition. What emerges is a captivating portrait of a country at a crossroads. Old versus New. Global versus local. India's march into the twenty-first century is full of tensions & uncertainties. But so too is it brimming with optimism & hope. With over half of its billion plus population under the age of twenty-five, India's future will be written by its youth. In describing their hopes & exploring their fears, India Rising unpicks what makes this vast nation tick & asks where it's heading.
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India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software & service companies abound. Millionaire entrepreneurs are springing up at every turn. Bollywood is going global & Indian expats are flooding back home. What`s more, these changes are occurring within the world`s largest democracy
- a far cry from neighbouring China. But who & what lies behind India`s apparent ascendency? In ” India Rising” Oliver Balch takes the voices & stories of everyday Indians & presents a fresh, vivid, highly personalised account of the changes as they are unfolding. Travelling the length & breadth of the country, Balch leads readers off the tourist trail & onto the streets of modern day India. From cricket stadiums & shopping malls to rural schools & shanty towns, the book blends the best of reportage & travel writing to get under the skin of this nation in transition. What emerges is a captivating portrait of a country at a crossroads. Old versus New. Global versus local. India`s march into the twenty-first century is full of tensions & uncertainties. But so too is it brimming with optimism & hope. With over half of its billion plus population under the age of twenty-five, India`s future will be written by its youth. In describing their hopes & exploring their fears, ” India Rising” unpicks what makes this vast nation tick & asks where it`s heading.
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Road Atlas of India published by Eicher Goodearth in co-operation with the Survey of India in a handy, 17.5x 23cm paperback format with 200 pages of road maps, street maps of main cities, plans of heritage sites, extensive index & a separate route-planning map. The atlas covers the whole country at 1:1, 000, 000, with Jammu & Kashmir plus Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar Islands at 1:2, 000, 000, & the environs of Delhi at 1:750, 000. Clear, well presented cartography has altitude colouring, spot heights, & graphics to indicate wet & dry rann marshlands. Road network

Includes:: local tracks & gives driving distances on main & secondary routes. Railway lines are shown with stations & indicate narrow gauge sections. The maps also show local administrative divisions with names of districts, indicating state, district & tahsil/taluk headquarters.A range of symbols highlight places of tourist interest, including national parks & wildlife sanctuaries, religions buildings of various denominations, historic monuments, caves, camping grounds, etc. The maps have no geographical coordinates. The atlas provides street plans of the country

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India Road Atlas from TTK providing for state-by-state overview of the road network accompanied by a list of places to visit, plus street plans, regional maps, general maps of India showing main tourist & wildlife sites, etc. The atlas has one page per state, but with the North-Eastern states covered together on one map & Sikkim shown with West Bengal. Scales vary according to the size of each state. The maps show principal road connections & a selection of local roads, plus mail railway lines. Each map page is accompanied by a page with facts & figures about the state, a list of places to visit, & a list of local festivals. Street plans, one page each for Ahmadabad, Bengaluru (Bangalore), Chandigarth, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad with Secunderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Mysuru, Thiruvananthapuram & Tirumala, have varying degree of detail but show main streets, railway lines with stations, places of interest, important services & facilities, etc. Also provided are regional maps, e.g. Kolkata to Darjeeling or Mumbai to Goa, to cover larger, cross-state areas. The atlas has an index of principal locations (headquarters) in each state, a plate showing main road signs, a distance table, plus additional maps of the whole of India with main tourist sights, wildlife locations, national highways, principal railway connections, & air routes. Illustrated with several colour photos, the atlas is printed on good quality, glossy paper. ...

India Road Edition Wall Map at 1:2, 000, 000 from Gizi Map, size 86 x 124cm (34” x 49” approx). Coverage

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A detailed & attractive general map showing relief through hill-shading, with an inset administrative map also included. Coverage extends beyond India to include the whole of Nepal, Bangladesh & large sections of Myanmar, Pakistan & Afghanistan. The Maldives, Andaman & Nicobar Islands & Eastern India (Assam & surroundings) are shown in insets. Selected peak heights are indicated & some terrain features such as salt flats, glaciers & swamps are distinguished. Several categories of roads are distinguished, including selected minor roads & tracks, with intermediate driving distances marked on many routes. Railways, shipping routes, airports & ports are marked & administrative region boundaries (and disputed frontiers) are shown. Symbols denote major places of worship, palaces, temples, beach resorts, antiquities, archeological sites, museums, tombs, & other places of interest. Lines of latitude & longitude are drawn at 2° intervals. In another inset is a political map at 1:23, 000, 000 showing India’s administrative divisions. The multilingual legend

Includes:: English, Hindi, Russian & Chinese, among others. The index is on the reverse, & for each Indian location states the province in which it lies. Towns in adjacent territories are also indexed. Please note: this title is also available as a wall map.

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Indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant road map of Southern India with topographic & tourist information, one of three regional maps of India published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The maps are double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet. The maps have altitude colouring with spot heights & names of hills & mountain ranges, plateaux, valleys, etc. Swamps, mangroves, sandy areas, glaciers, waterfalls & hot springs are indicated. Detailed road network & railways are easy to see on the base map, & local airports & airfields are marked. Nature reserves & bird sanctuaries are highlighted, & symbols show locations of forts & palaces, temples & other religious buildings, natural curiosities, beaches, etc. The maps have a latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 1 ...

Indexed double-sided map combining coverage of southern India with the north-eastern part of the country & eastern Nepal. The map has altitude colouring (in feet) & shows the country’s road & rail networks. Symbols highlight various places of interest including historic or scenic sites, hill stations, temples & other religious buildings, castles & forts, national parks & wildlife reserves, beaches, boating & rafting facilities, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at intervals of 2°. Each side of the map has a separate index of place names. The eastern half of this map is also available separately, with a street plan of Kolkata (Calcutta) on the reverse. ...

Southern India at 1:1, 400, 000 approx. in a series of Adventure maps from the National Geographic Society with cartography provided by Reise Know-How. The map is double-sided & printed on light waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper. Coverage extends across the western coast to Vadodra (Baroda), along the eastern coast to beyond Kakinada (Cocanada) & inland well north of Nagpur. Cartographic information provided by Reise Know-How has been adjusted to follow the house style of the NGS Adventure series with greater emphasis on the country’s topography. Altitude colouring in broader bands has been replaced here by contours at 500m intervals plus relief shading. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. Road network

Includes:: selected local tracks & gives distances on main & on most secondary routes. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Internal administrative boundaries are shown with names of the states. Symbols highlight various places of interest including UNESCO world heritage sites, archaeological remains, temples & museums, viewpoints, beaches, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1° intervals & the map has an index of place names. Overall, the slightly smaller scale of the NGS map & the presentation of the road & rail networks make the original Reise Know-How edition far clearer than the NGS map.PLEASE NOTE: to ensure regular supplies & faster delivery to our customers we keep as regular stock the Reise Know-How edition whilst the NGS version can be ordered on request.

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