A study of the etymology of names the origins of the names reveals much about our history and culture. Dictionaries of placenames are called gazetteers. They contain descriptive information about ...

The District Gazetteers currently available date back to the early 1970s and cover 35 districts of the then Madhya Pradesh, which included the present-day Chhattisgarh State.

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): After a gap of more than 50 years, Madhya Pradesh has initiated the process of drafting the gazetteers of its districts. The new gazetteers would be people-friendly and ...

Maratha quota activist's health deteriorates on eighth day of hunger strike for OBC reservations, sparking security concerns.

Wonderful is the effect of impudent & persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the ...

In Mumbai, chief minister Eknath Shinde holds meeting with a seven-member delegation from the Maratha community ...

Hake and Navnath Waghmare launched a counter-hunger strike to safeguard the OBC quota and scrap the draft Sage Soyare ...

More generally, Valeria’s research is focusing on the challenges of creating and maintaining historical gazetteers, the use of formalised languages to express complex knowledge around place, and the ...

In Mumbai, chief minister Eknath Shinde holds meeting with a seven-member delegation from the Maratha community ...

No wonder then that the buzz around a recent top-level bureaucratic appointment leads to him. Or so says the grapevine. Looking to end her bureaucratic exile at the state gazetteers department where ...

The supporters of Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange were in Mumbai on Saturday, September 21, to meet Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at his official residence. However, they were stopped by Mumbai ...

“The team also studied the registered FIRs and related documents in these cases. Census data from 1901 till now, related census reports, gazetteers and research papers related to the demography of the ...