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Herodotus and Geography

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‘Father of History’ the great Herodotus one of the most prominent contributor of geography. He explained the history in geographical way.  He was the first one who believed the concept ‘all history treated geographically and all geography treated historically’. He was one of the great traveler at his period, he travelled lots of places explained various Island and Continents through his concept. Nile River and its origin and way and its impact was firstly explained by him. He was the first scholar who tried to draw the meridian line on World map. He has navigated the Black Sea and tried to focus on it in different angles. He was the first one who demanded that Caspian Sea is an Inland Island. Out of these he explained the depositional process of river and formation of delta and meander. Before beginning of the concept of Continent, he divided world into three landmass these are presently known as Europe, Asia, and Africa.   He has also explained very rightly about Africa ...
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Nobel of Geography

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'Vautrin Lud Prize' is known as 'Nobel of Geography'. This is the highest award in the field of Geography. The award is named on the name of French Scholar Vautrin Lud, who was one of the great scholar, traveller and discoverer in the field of Geography . It was first announced in 1991 and from that time each year in autumn at the time of International Geography Festival in France the award is distributed.  Petter Haggett was the first one who received this award in 1991. Till 2019, 28 scholars awarded where  John A Agnew was last recipient who received this award in 2019. By, Dr.Biplab Tripathy Assistant Professor Department of Geography Arunachal University of Studies
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Father of Indian Geography

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James Rennell is known as father of Indian Geography. He was came from England near 1760 as a member of East India Company. Rennell was first one who prepared the detailed map of India in 1783. He was a great surveyor at that time who was appointed as Surveyor-general by Robart Clive in 1767 and he prepared the Bengal Atlas in 1789. He was an oceanographer his works were the source of different information of the currents of Indian and Atlantic Ocean. His survey works produced various maps of India as like, Bihar and Bengal map, Northern and central Indian map, Ganga River basin map, Peninsula Indian map etc.. He awarded by gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1825. By, Dr.Biplab Tripathy Assistant Professor Department of Geography Arunachal University of Studies Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh.
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'Bhugol' and 'Khogol'

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In Indian literature 'Geography' is called 'Bhugol' or 'Bhogol' or 'Bhoogol'. In ancient Indian science and astronomy, Varahamihira one of the prominent name in Sixth century. His Surya- siddhanta  treatise source of various astronomical geographic  concepts as like various planets and subplanets and it's dimensions and orbit and astronomical bodies etc.. The Sanskrit term 'Bhugola' is the origin of the team 'Ghugol'. In the term 'Bhugola', where 'Bhu' means 'Earth' and 'Gola' means 'Circle', and similarly 'Bhugol' means 'Circular Earth'.  The other explanation is that, the term 'Bhugol' comes from the term 'Khogol' where 'Kho' means 'the sky' and 'gol' means 'circle'. In Suryasiddhanta 'Khogol' is a Sanskrit term that means 'the science of space'. By, Dr. Biplab Tripathy Assistant Professor Department of Geography A...
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Father of Geography

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Geography is a subject which discussed about the surface of the Earth. The word geography comes from Greek word 'Geographia' that means'Earth description'. Eratosthenes was the first one who used the term Geography. He is called founder of Geography. According to development of the concept of Geography, Eratosthenes is known as father of ancient geography. He has lots of  contribution in geography as like calculation of the tilt of Earth's axis, distances between Earth and Sun, leap day etc.  But, Alexander Von Humboldt and Carl Ritter both are called father of modern geography. They both introduce the methods of the study of Geography. 
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