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Tourism is a global phenomenon. It is worlds one of the largest and fastest growing industry (Roday, Biwal and Joshi, 2009). According to the WITC, tourism generates more than 230 million jobs directly and indirectly and contributes to more than 10% of the world’s GDP. As per the WTTC in India, tourism generates 42.676 million jobs directly and indirectly, 8.1% of India’s total employment and 9.2% (Rs.16.91 lakh crore) of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018. As per the predication of WTTC tourism industry will grow in India at 6.9% annual rate and will generate Rs.32.05 lakh crore and 9.9% total GDP of India in 2028 (India Brand Equity Foundation Tourism and Hospitality report Sept. 2017).
This book presents the multi-faceted Hindu deity Dattatreya from his Puranic emergence up to modern times. Dattatreya's Brahmanical portrayal, as well as his even more archaic characterization as a Tantric antinomian figure, combines both Vaisnava Saiva motifs. Over the course of time, Dattatreya has come to embody the roles of the immortal guru, yogin and avatara in a paradigmatic manner. From the sixteenth century Dattatreya's glorious characterization emerged as the incarnation of the trimurti of Brahma, Visnu, and Siva. Although Maharastra is the heartland of Dattatreya devotion, his presence is attested to throughout India and extends beyond the boundaries of Hinduism, being met with in...
Biography of Jotīrāva Govindarāva Phule, 1827-1890, social reformer from Maharashtra, India.
"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning ...
A comprehensive socio-political study of the Gorkha people and their demand for the separate state of Gorkhaland
The travel industry is an enormous, diffuse worldwide industry. Natural viewpoints are minimal examined, with distributions altogether. Influences range from worldwide commitments to environmental change and sea contamination to limited impacts on jeopardized plant and creature species in safeguarded regions. Natural administration is restricted more by absence of reception than by absence of innovation. Unofficial law is more compelling than industry-based ecocertification. In agricultural countries, the travel industry can add to preservation by offering political and monetary help for public safeguarded region organizations and for protection on private and commonly claimed lands. This is significant in building versatility to environmental change. In created countries, such impacts are offset by the effects of sporting use and by political tensions from the travel industry property engineers. These connections merit research in both normal and sociologies. Research needs incorporate more complex entertainment environment as well as legitimate and social structures for preservation the travel industry.
This book presents a lucid, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative of culture and society in late 19th- and early 20th-century Maharashtra through a perceptive study of its theatre and cinema. An intellectual tour de force, it will be invaluable to scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, theatre and film studies, cultural studies, sociology, gender studies as well as the interested general reader.
ENDLESS DARKNESS They live on the shadowy border between the possible and the impossible-ancient life-forms known as mushi. Rare is the individual who can see them, but those with that special ability, the mushishi, can counter the creatures' deadly effects on humans. After a young boy is orphaned in the forest, he is saved by a reclusive female mushishi. But the lake near the mushishi's home holds a deadly secret, and the boy must find out what it is before his only friend is lost forever.