Environmental issues, natural resources– energy resources and bio-diversity/ ecology, pollution, and control, natural disasters, effects of tourism.
A000 - Environment (0)
(each subject as part of ecosystem, resources categorised separately under A100) Theory/analysis/debates/history
A010 - Forests (0)
(including afforestation, deforestation)
A020 - Water and marine environments (0)
(for water harvesting see B010, for water pollution see A410)
A030 - Wetlands (0)
A039 - (0)
A040 - Deserts (0)
A050 - Wastelands (0)
A100 - Natural Resources (0)
(apart from under A200 and energy resourcesunder A300, including precious stones and metals) Theory / analysis / debates / history
A200 - Ecology/bio-diversity (0)
(including wild life, bio-piracy and intellectual property rights issues) Theory / analysis / debates / history
A300 - Energy resources (0)
(renewable, non-renewable, including non-traditional resources) Theory / analysis / debates / history
A310 - Renewable energy resources (0)
A320 - Non-renewable energy resources (0)
A400 - Pollution and control (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
A410 - Water pollution (0)
A420 - Air pollution (0)
A430 - Noise pollution (0)
A440 - Waste management and dumping (0)
(including incineration)
A450 - Other forms of pollution (0)
A500 - Natural and human caused disasters and rehabilitation (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
A600 - Tourism (0)
(including effects on environment and culture) Theory / analysis / debates / history
A700 - Environmental movements (0)
Environmental movements
B - Biomass (0)
Agriculture including land issues, farmers and all types of agro-industries.
B000 - Agriculture (0)
(agricultural practices, farming systems, cultivation and production) Theory / analysis / debates / history
B010 - Water harvesting (0)
(including big dams, where dams threaten environment look under D 020 and A)
B020 - Organic farming (0)
(including organic pesticides and fertilisers)
B030 - Farms and farm forestry (0)
(including land issues)
B100 - Agro-industry (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
B110 - Dairy (0)
B120 - Poultry (0)
B130 - Livestock (0)
B140 - Aquaculture and fisheries (0)
B150 - Other agro-industries (0)
(including sericulture and sericulture)
B200 - Farmers (0)
(issues concerning farmers as part of economy, including peasant movements, for communities see S 210) Theory / analysis / debates / history
B210 - Peasant movements (0)
C - Communications and Media (0)
Forms of communication media - print, radio and television, films and videos, developmental communication, publishing, communication design, internet, advertising and publicity.
C000 - Communications and media (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
C100 - Print media (0)
(dailies, journals) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C200 - Radio and television (0)
(as production and broadcast media) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C300 - Development communications (0)
(communication artifacts in various media made specifically for development education,) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C400 - Fiction films (0)
(includes fiction made in video, and film theory examining cinema as an art form) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C500 - Documentary films (0)
(includes videos) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C600 - Animation films (0)
(includes videos) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C700 - Communication design (0)
(includes graphics, internet, interactive media design literature; for product design see T330) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C800 - Publishing (0)
(books, CDs etc.) Theory / analysis / debates / history
C900 - Advertising and publicity (0)
(as communications, for marketing aspect see under D) Theory / analysis / debates / history
D - Development & Economy (0)
Development (strategies, planning etc.), economy, labour issues, sectors in industry, banking and finance, trade, marketing and consumption, globalisation (in context of S.A.P.), sustainable development.
D000 - Development (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
D010 - Development components (0)
(including development strategies, development management and planning, 5 year plans, programme evaluation, development finance and fund raising).
D020 - Sustainable development (0)
(including critiques of consequences of development programmes)
D100 - Economy (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
D110 - Economic situation (0)
(current scenario, not theory, including poverty, food supply, population and inflation; for unemployment see D 200 labour)
D200 - Labour and employment (0)
(including unemployment, organised and unorganised labour, economic and social aspects; for gender issues see W500) Theory / analysis / debates / history
D210 - Trade unions (0)
D300 - Industry (0)
(from economy aspect, for history see T100 and technology including Industrial Revolution see T140) Theory / analysis / debates
D310 - Public sector (0)
D320 - Private sector (0)
D330 - Informal sector (0)
D340 - Multinational corporations (0)
D400 - Banking and finance (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
D410 - Micro-credit (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
D420 - Foreign aid and foreign debt (0)
D500 - Trade (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
D510 - International trade (0)
(incl. WTO, GATT, etc.)
D520 - Domestic trade (0)
D600 - Marketing and consumption (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
D610 - Marketing practices (0)
D620 - Consumer protection (0)
D700 - Structural adjustment programmes and globalisation intl (0)
(for India see D710) Theory / analysis / debates / history
D710 - Impact of structural adjustment programmes on India (0)
(including education, health, labor, public distribution systems, privatisation of state owned enterprises, ancillaration etc.)
E - Education (0)
Formal and non-formal education (at all levels), vocational training and counselling, litracy programmes, distance education, people’s science movement, special education and studies related to curricula.
E000 - Education (0)
(including right to education) Theory / analysis / debates / history
E100 - Formal Education (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
E110 - Pre-primary and primary education (0)
E120 - Secondary education (0)
E130 - Higher education (0)
E140 - Distance education (0)
(including education through Internet)
E150 - Vocational training, career planning, edu counselling (0)
E160 - Curricula and textbooks (0)
E200 - Non-formal education (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
E210 - Pre-primary and primary education (0)
E220 - Adult education (0)
(including literacy movements)
E230 - People's science movements (0)
E240 - Organisational development training (0)
(includes training programmes by govt and non-govt institutions; for trainings on specific subjects for NGO workers, see numbers ending in 4 under revelant category, i.e. for a graphic design course for NGOs see C704)
E300 - Education in specific areas (0)
(other than those covered elsewhere in the classification system) Theory / analysis / debates / history
E400 - Special education and rehabilitation (0)
(for physical and mental disabilities and related therapies see under H) Theory / analysis / debates / history
E410 - Education of the visually challenged (0)
E420 - Education of the audially challenged (0)
E429 - (0)
E430 - Education of the mobility challenged (0)
E440 - Education of the mentally challenged (0)
E441 - National (0)
E442 - International and within other countries (0)
E443 - Gender (0)
E444 - Education / training / communication resources (0)
E460 - Education of those with learning difficulties (0)
E470 - Education of gifted learners (0)
H - Health and Medicine (0)
Well being and fitness issues, health services, child and reproductive health issues (contraception, infertility) parallel health systems, drugs and the pharmaceutical industry, health hazards, communicable and non-communicable diseases, disabilities and mental health.
H000 - Health, wellbeing and fitness (0)
(covering an approach of self-help and preventive maintenance of health including yoga and other systems) Theory / analysis / debates / history
H100 - Health and medicine (0)
(health services, primarily allopathic; for specifically gender related issues see W400) Theory / analysis / debates / history
H110 - Public health delivery systems (0)
(including primary health care, immunisation, public hospitals etc. run by govt.)
H120 - Private health care (0)
H130 - Community health work (0)
(outside govt. sector)
H200 - Child health (0)
(including feeding practices, nutrition, infant mortality etc., for female foeticide and infanticide see W210) Theory / analysis / debates / history
H300 - Reproductive health (0)
(including menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, maternal mortality and morbidity, menopause etc.; for safe sex and STDs see H700; for discriminatory socio-health practices such as female circumcision, menstrual segregation practices see W 410) Theory / analysis / debates / history
H310 - Contraception (0)
(including technologies and non-technological methods)
H320 - Abortion (0)
H330 - Infertility and related technologies (0)
H400 -Parallel health practices (0)
(i.e. apart from allopathy) Theory / analysis / debates
(including tobacco, alcohol, narcotics and other psychotropic substances)
H630 - Hazardous chemicals, and products (0)
(including radiation and nuclear hazards)
H700 - Communicable diseases, their prevention and treatment (0)
(including epidemics for HIV-AIDS see H710, for other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) see H720) Theory / analysis / debates / history
H710 - HIV-AIDS (0)
(for contraception see H310)
H720 - Sexually transmitted diseases (0)
( for contraception see H310)
H800 - Non-communicable diseases and treatments (0)
(for cancer see H-810) Theory / analysis / debates / history
H810 - Cancer (0)
H900 - Disabilities and related therapies (0)
(for education and rehabilitation see E) Theory / analysis / debates / history
H910 - Physical disabilities (0)
H920 - Mental health (0)
(including services, therapies and counselling)
I - Ideology, Social Movements, Politics and Governance (0)
Philosophies, ideologies and social movements, politics and governance (national and international) political systems, reservation policies, role of UN and other world bodies, war and peace issues, nuclear armament and disarmament, human rights and censorship.
I000 - Philosophy (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
I010 - Indian philosophy (0)
I020 - Western philosophy (0)
(incl. Greek philosophy)
I030 - Philosophies of science (0)
I040 - Other philosophies (0)
I100 - Ideologies and social movements (0)
(for women's movements see W100, for trade union movements see D210, for peasant movements see B210, for environmental movements see A700) Theory / analysis / debates / history
I110 - Reform movements (0)
(pre-independence period and contemporary reform movements including anti-liquor movements, for efforts of social reformers to provide education to women see E003)
I120 - Nationalist ideologies and movements (0)
(including entire spectrum of anti-colonial and national self-determination movements worldwide; for Indian national movemement see Z130; for Indian separatist movements see I170)
I130 - Dalit, caste-based and other ethnic movements (0)
(for caste as a system see S220)
I140 - Hindu fundamentalist movements (0)
(including RSS parivar; for Hinduism as theology see R010)
I150 - Muslim fundamentalist movements (0)
(for Islam as theology see R020)
I160 - Regional movements for statehood (0)
(including Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Chhatisgarh and others)
I170 - Separatist movements (0)
(including Kashmir, Punjab, Nagaland and others)
I180 - Left-oriented movements (0)
(including socialist parties, also see ones subsumed in categories within I above)
I190 - Right-oriented movements (0)
(including fascist parties, also see ones subsumed in categories within I above)
I200 - Politics and governance in India (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
I210 - Political parties (0)
(only parties participating in elections and governance)
I220 - Elections (0)
I230 - Central government (0)
(including structure of central govt. and centre-state relations)
I240 - State governments (0)
I250 - Panchayat, zilla parishad, municipal bodies (0)
I260 - Government bodies (including Commissions) (0)
I270 - Reservation policy (0)
I300 - Politics and governance—international (0)
(for war related issues see I400) Theory / analysis / debates / history
I310 - Role of UN and other world bodies (0)
I320 - North-south relations (0)
I330 - South-south relations (0)
I340 - South Asian relations (0)
I400 - War and peace (0)
(including histories of specific wars) Theory / analysis / debates / history
I410 - Territorial disputes (0)
I420 - Military and para military forces (0)
(including atrocities against civilians)
I430 - Civil conflicts (0)
(including ethnic and communal conflicts)
I440 - Nuclear armament and disarmament (0)
I450 - Peace treaties, agreements and policies (0)
I500 - Human Rights (0)
(primarily civil liberty issues, for education as a human see E000, for sexual harassment see W120) Theory / analysis / debates / history
I510 - Police, para military and military forces (0)
(including atrocities against civilians)
I520 - Political Detention (0)
I530 - Prisons and correctional institutions (0)
I540 - Censorship by governments and vigilante groups (0)
(for pornography-related censorship see X 500)
J - Judiciary and Law (0)
Judiciary and Law
J000 - Law (0)
Theory/ analysis/ debate/ history
J100 - Constitutional law of India (0)
Theory/ analysis/ debate/ history
J200 - Civil law (0)
Theory/ analysis/ debate/ history
J210 - Personal laws (0)
J220 - Administrative laws (0)
J230 - Contract law (0)
J240 - Corporate laws (0)
J300 - Criminal law (0)
J400 - Business, finance and taxation law (0)
J500 - Administrative law (0)
J600 - Judiciary (0)
(including family courts, civil procedures,commissions etc.) Theory/ analysis/ debate/ history
K - Culture and the Arts (0)
Cultural heritage and conservation, visual and performing arts and all interdisciplinary discussions, games and toys. (for cultural studies as a discipline see S).
K000 - Cultural heritage (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
K010 - Museums/galleries (0)
(for site specific museums see under monuments K020)
K020 - Historical monuments (0)
(including historical zones and site museums)
K100 - The Arts (0)
(primarily theoretical works including those integrating all the arts, visual and performing; for censorship see I 540) Theory / analysis / debates / history
K200 - Performing Arts (0)
(for interdiscliplinay discussions see K 100)
K210 - Music (0)
(instrumental and vocal)
K220 - Dance (0)
K230 - Acting (0)
K240 - Theatre (0)
(for acting aspect see K230)
K250 - Others (0)
K300 - Visual arts (0)
K310 - Painting and drawing (0)
Painting and drawing (all forms including calligraphy, religious art, cartoons and sketches)
K320 - Sculpture (0)
(all forms including religious images)
K330 - Photography (0)
K340 - Others (0)
K400 - Games and toys (0)
L - Language, Linguistics and Literature (0)
Study of language and linguistics, dictionaries, and literature in all its forms. Literary works pertaining to issues specified in other categories will be kept with material in that category.
L000 - Language and linguistics (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
L010 - Dictionaries, glossaries and thesauri (0)
L100 - Literature (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
L110 - Mythology/epics/folklore/fables (0)
L120 - Fiction (0)
L130 - Drama/ plays (0)
L140 - Essays, speeches, quotations and other writing (0)
L150 - Poetry (0)
L160 - Children's literature (0)
R - Religion (0)
All religions, various sects and cults, spirituality.
R000 - Religion and spirituality (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
R010 - Hinduism (0)
R020 - Islam (0)
R030 - Christianity (0)
R040 - Buddhism (0)
R050 - Sikhism (0)
R060 - Other religions (0)
R070 - Sects, cults and movements (0)
R080 - Spirituality (0)
(apart from religion)
S - Society (0)
Studies of society from various view points, research methodologies used, indigenous people, social divisions in terms of caste, community, race, etc., family and kinship, children’s issues, social issues of other age segments, population issues from societal viewpoint, crime and corruption.
S000 - Studies of Society (0)
(including sociology, anthropology, social anthropology, structure-functionalism, social psychology, cultural studies) Theory / analysis / debates / history
S010 - Classics (0)
S020 - Contemporary works (0)
S100 - Research methodology in social sciences (0)
(for participatory techniques of research see S110) Theory / analysis / debates / history
S110 - Participatory research (0)
S200 - Social identities and divisions (0)
(for gender discrimination see W500) Theory / analysis / debates / history
S210 - Indigenous people (0)
(including native people of colonised areas, adivasis in India etc. having strong traditional identities apart from mainstream in that society). Theory / analysis / debates / history
(such as friendships, fraternities, sororities etc.)
S400 - Children's issues (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
S410 - Child labour (0)
S420 - Street / destitute children (0)
S430 - Juvenile delinquency (0)
S440 - Child abuse (0)
(incl. child sexual abuse, for child prostitution see W300)
S450 - Institutional care (0)
(including orphanages, remedial and reform schools)
S460 - Non-institutional services (0)
(including adoption, foster care etc.)
S500 - Issues of other age segments (0)
(for sexuality-related issues see X200) Theory / analysis / debates / history
S510 - Youth and adolescent issues (0)
(including teenage pregnancy)
S520 - Issues related to middle age (0)
S530 - Issues related to old age (0)
(including old age homes)
S600 - Population and habitation issues (0)
S610 - Settlement and rural land use (0)
S620 - Urbanisation (0)
S630 - Population Control (0)
S800 - Consumerism (0)
S900 - Crime (0)
(as a social issue, for legal aspects see J) Theory / analysis / debates / history
T - Science, Engineering and Technology (0)
Emphasis on historical development of science, engineering and technology. Specific disciplines of science, evolution of technology, industrial application of materials (including recycled materials) and related technologies, architecture, transport technology, product design, computer sciences and biotechnology (including genetic engineering).
T000 - Sciences (0)
Theory / analysis / debates / history
T001 - National (0)
T002 - International and within other countries (0)
T003 - Gender (0)
T004 - Education / training / communication resources (0)
