UNIT - I Human Geography : Environment and Culture

1. Human Geography : Meaning, Definitions, Objectives, Nature, Subject-Matter and Branches 2. Development of Human Geography and Interrelationship of Human Geography with Other Social Sciences 3. Human and Environment Relationshipm 4. Determinism, Possibilism and Neo-Determinism 5. Dualism in Geography 6. Classification of Human Races (With Special Reference of India) 7. Human Adaptation to the Environment 8. Tribes of Madhya Pradesh 9. Population Growth in the World 10. Distribution and Density of Population 11. Causes of Migration and Immigration of Population 12. Population Explosion and Concept of Optimum Population 13. Human Development 14. Rural Settlement 15. Urban Settlement

UNIT - II Physical Geography : Lithosphere (Geomorphology)

1. Introduction to Geography (Definition, Nature and Scope of Physical Geography and Relation of Physical Geography with Other Branches of Earth Sciences) 2. Solar System and Important Hypothesis Related to Origin of the Earth 3. Age of the Earth and Geological Time-Scale 4. Interior of the Earth 5. Rocks : Origin, Types and Structure 6. Origin of the Continents and Oceans 7. Theories of Isostasy 8. Continental Drift Theory of Alfred Wagner 9. Plate Tectonics 10. Theories of Mountain Building 11. Endogenetic and Exogenetic Forces 12. Earthquakes 13. Volcanoes 14. Tsunamis 15. Weathering 16. Geomoraphic Agents and Processes and Mass Wasting 17. Concept of Cycle of Erosion, Views of Davis and Penck 18. Concept of Slope Development 19. Evolution of Landscapes 20. Fluvial Land Forms 21. Arid Land Forms 22. Coastal Land Forms 23. Karst Land Forms 24. Glacial Land Forms 25. Application of Geomorphology to Human Activities or Applied Geomorphology.