Section 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction: Essays in Honour of Rana P.B. Singh

Ravi S. Singh, Arun K. Singh, Bharat Dahiya and Padma C. Poudel

Chapter 2: Practising Cultural Geographies: The Academic Contribution of Rana P.B. Singh

Ravi S. Singh and Bharat Dahiya

Section 2: Landscapes

Chapter 3: Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape Perception

Prem Chhetri and Anjali Chhetri

Chapter 4: Ayurveda in the Rural Landscape: Poomully Mana in Kerala, India

Bharat Dahiya

Chapter 5: Char Landscapes of the Brahmaputra Riverine Tract, Assam: Elements of Evolution

and Cultural Ecology

A.K. Bhagabati and N. Deka

Chapter 6: Satellite Based Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Landscape Dynamics and Land Surface

Temperature Patterns in Hanoi, Vietnam

Nguyen Vu Giang, Nobukazu Nakagoshi, Pham Viet Hoa, Hoang Thi Hang, and Atiqur Rahman

Section 3: Religion

Chapter 7: The Priesthood of the temple of Viṭhobā in Pandharpur, Maharashtra

Erik Reenberg Sand

Chapter 8: Geographical Spread of Hindu Religion and Culture into the West

Martin J. Haigh

Chapter 9: Cultural heritage in the north-eastern borderland of India: A case study of

indigenous religious belief systems

Ravi S. Singh

Section 4: Heritage

Chapter 10: Kautilya's Political Geography-Concepts and Ideas: An Example of Ancient Indian

Geographical Thinking

Sudeepto Adhikari

Chapter 11: The Two Faces of Bodhgaya

Nikhil Joshi

Chapter 12: Instilling Local Knowledge Education: Promoting Vernacular Landscape Identity,

Heritage and Sustainability of School Youth in Dongshan Town, Suzhou, China

Juncheng Dai, Ruihong Zhang, Shangyi Zhou, and Shunying Tang

Chapter 13: Cultural Approaches to Animal Geographies: Cattle and Urban-Rural Intersections

in Delhi, India

Pratyusha Basu

Chapter 14: The Misings of Assam in the Midst of Tradition and Modernity: A Comparative

Study Of Selected Rural And Urban Areas

Pahari Doley and Bimal Kumar Kar

Section 5: Pilgrimage and Tourism

Chapter 15: Lumbini, Nepal: The Birth Place of Buddha and the Powerful Place of Pilgrimage in

the World

Padma Chandra Poudel

Chapter 16: Pañcakroshi Yatra: SymbolicManifestation of the Spatial to the Spiritual

Vandana Sehgal

Chapter 17: Cultural Tourism based Regional Development in Rajasthan, India

R.B. Singh and Ajay Kumar

Chapter 18: Baul-Sufi interface and Cultural Tourism: A study in Northern Rarh of West Bengal,

India

Premangshu Chakrabarty and Tushar Mandal

Section 6: Settlements

Chapter 19: Cultural Images of Kolkata: A Contemporary Perspective

L. N. Satpati

Chapter 20: Urban Sanitation in Indian cities: Reflections from Varanasi

Arun K. Singh

Chapter 21: Perspective on Agricultural Land Use Trajectory in the Peri-Urban Interface of a

Developing Economy. A Case Study

Nasrin Banu and Shahab Fazal

Chapter 22: Urban Renewal and Redevelopment of Public Space: An Approach towards

Community Resource Optimization in Varanasi

Sarbeswar Praharaj

Section 7: Epilogue

Chapter 23: Emerging Perspectives

Bharat Dahiya and Ravi S. Singh​