If you’ve ever prepared for the UPSC, NTA NET, or a master’s entrance exam in India, one name haunts your bookshelf— Majid Hussain .
Before Hussain, human geography in India was largely Eurocentric—Ratzel, Vidal de la Blache, Huntington. Their examples came from the Rhine, the Alps, or the American Midwest. human geography majid hussain
Hussain popularized the idea that India is not one demographic entity . He broke down population geography into —like the contrast between Kerala (high literacy, low growth) and Bihar (low literacy, high growth). If you’ve ever prepared for the UPSC, NTA
Drop a comment with your favorite concept from his work. Mine is his classification of Indian Megacities as ‘Demographic Pressure Valves’ . Vidal de la Blache
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