TY - BOOK AU - Verma, V. TI - Himachal Pradesh : now and then SN - 9789350500781 U1 - 330.95452 PY - 2013/// CY - Delhi PB - B.R World, KW - Himachal Pradesh (India) Economic conditions N1 - Bib and Ref N2 - Now And Then Himachal Pradesh aptly called dev bhumi by the ancients, lies at the heart of the Western Himalaya. Its land is as bewitching as areits people colorful. The real beauty of the land however lies in its multi-hued flowers, its pine-scented forests, in rivers with crystal clear water, distant views of the snow peaks and, above all in its colorful humanity. Its composite culture justly commands deep interest and fulsome admiration, being a unique blend of various strains, such as have left footprints of the Aryan civilization and those which flowed from the seventh century onwards from the North and North-East ER -