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OF CONTEMPORARY INDIA Catalogue Of The Papers of Dr. M.K. Ranjitsinh Plot # 2, Rajiv Gandhi Education City, P.O. Rai, Sonepat – 131029, Haryana (India) Dr. M.K. Ranjitsinh India‟s leading wild life conservationist, Dr. M.K. Ranjitsinh was born on 19 February 1938. He belongs to the royal family of Wankaner in Saurashtra, Gujarat. Educated at St. Stephen‟s College in Delhi, he was selected for the Indian Administrative Service in 1961. As collector of Mandla (1967-1970) in Madhya Pradesh, he helped save the central Indian Barasingha from extinction. Transferred to Delhi in 1971 as deputy secretary of forests and wildlife in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture he was the prime architect of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 (subsequently associated with every significant amendment of it thereafter, even after retirement from government service in 1996). He was the first Director of Wildlife Preservation of India, 1973-75, and served for a second term, 1985-89. Dr. Ranjitsinh served as Regional Adviser in Nature Conservation (Asian Countries) for United Nations Environmental Programme at Bangkok, Thailand, 1975-1980. Back in India in January 1981, he was appointed Secretary, Forests and Tourism, and Commissioner, Bhopal Division, Madhya Pradesh. During his 4 year tenure, he established 14 new sanctuaries, 8 new national parks and more than doubled the area of 3 existing national parks, a total addition of over 9,000 sq. km. to the protected areas of the nation. As Commissioner of Bhopal in 1983, played a pivotal role in the aftermath of Bhopal gas tragedy. Mid 1985, he was moved to Delhi as joint secretary in the newly created Ministry of Environment and Forests and put in overall charge of Project Tiger. He was also Chairman of Standing Committee, CITES, 1985-86. Dr. Ranjitsinh was appointed India‟s commissioner on the International Whaling Commission and attended its annual Conference of Parties at Bournemouth, England, 1985; Malmo, Sweden, 1987; Auckland, New Zealand, 1988; and San Diego, USA, 1989. He was Chairperson of the Research Advisory Committee of Wildlife Institute of India at Dehradun for many years. He became Additional Secretary and Project Director of the Ganga Action Plan, under the aegis of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, 1989-90. He was Chairman, Narmada Valley Development Authority, 1993-95, and Director General, Council for Advancement of People‟s Action and Rural Technology (CAPART), 1995-96. Dr. M.K. Ranjitsinh retired from government service in February 1996. His passion for saving endangered species continues after his retirement, whether in planning the relocation of the Asiatic lion from Gir forest, the reintroduction of the Cheetah into the grasslands of central India, or in saving from extinction the Kashmiri stag, the Manipur browantlered deer and the great Indian bustard. The eastern subspecies of the Indian Barasingha is named after him (cervus duvauceli ranjitsinhji). In 1997, he headed a special unit for tiger conservation in India under the aegis of WWF International, based in WWF office in Delhi. He has been associated with the major conservation initiatives as a member of the National Board for Wildlife and its Standing Committee; Chairman, Biodiversity Conservation, Madhya Pradesh, 1998; member, National Forest Commission, 2003; Chairman, Wildlife Trust of India, 2008-09, and special task force for reintroduction of Cheetah in India. In January 2020, Dr.Ranjitsinhwas appointed by the Supreme Court to head the committee to help the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) for the re-introduction of cheetah in India. Dr. Ranjitsinh was awarded the Order of the Golden Ark in 1979, in recognition of „outstanding work on behalf of International conservation both in India and in South East Asia‟ and was elected to the Global 500 Roll of Honour of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) „in recognition of outstanding practical achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment‟ in 1991; was recipient of Maharaja Martand Singh Dev Trust Award (1996) and Maharani Udai Singh of Mewar Award (1998) for his contribution to wildlife and environment conservation. Dr. M.K. Ranjitsinh has published numerous articles and two books on Indian wildlife and conservation, The Indian Blackbuck; Beyond the Tiger: Portraits of Asian Wildlife and a book on his life‟s journey which in essence is the history of nature conservation in India, A Life with Wildlife: From Princely India to the Present. The list of his various articles and essays on wildlife form part of the catalogue. CATALOGUE OF THE PAPERS OF DR. M.K. RANJITSINH CONTENTS S. No. Details Years Page No. FILES ARRANGED SUBJECT WISE 1960-2018 1-87 (1) Wildlife Census 1960-1995 1-3 (2) Wildlife Protected Areas: National Parks, 1967-2015 3-14 Sanctuaries, and Reserves a) Ajar Valley Reserve, 3 Amarkantak Reserve, b) Bar-Nawapada Sanctuary, 4 Badalkhol Sanctuary, Bande-Amir Sanctuary, Bhitarkanka Sanctuary, c) Chhatrasaal National Park, 4-5 Corbett National Park, d) Dal and Nagin Lakes, 5 Desert National Park, e) Gir National Park, 6 Gomarda Sanctuary, f) Indian Wild Ass Sanctuary, 6 (ii) S. No. Details Years Page No. g) Kachachh Desert Wildlife Sanctuary, 7-8 Kalakad Sanctuary, Kanha National Park, Kapilash Sanctuary, Keibul-Lamjao, Keoladeo Sanctuary, h) Lahtak Lake, 8-9 i) Manas Biosphere Reserve, 9-10 Marine National Park, j) Namdapha National Park, 10-11 Nanda Devi National Park, National Chambal Sanctuary, k) Pachmarhi Reserve, 11 Point Calimere Sanctuary, l) Sagarmatha National Park, 12-13 Silent Valley National Park, Sitanadi National Park, Son Gharial Sanctuary, Sunabeda Sanctuary, Sundarbans National Park, m) Trai Shikhar Reserve, 13 n) Udanti Sanctuary, 14 o) Valavadar National Park 14 (3) Wildlife/ Biodiversity Conservation 1969-2017 14-30 (4) Forest Policy/Management 1978-2010 31-36 (5) Indian Board for Wildlife 1997-2003 37-38 (6) National Board for Wildlife 2003-2016 38-43 (7) State Boards for Wildlife 2007-2017 43-44 (iii) S. No. Details Years Page No. (8) Wild Animals 1973-2017 44-70 (I) Tigers/ Big Cat Species 1973-2016 44-51 (II) Tiger Reserves 1973-2013 51-57 a) Achanakmar Tiger Reserve 51 b) Bandipur Tiger Reserve 52 c) Chitwan Tiger Reserve 52 d) Corbett Tiger Reserve 52 e) Dudhwa Tiger Reserve 52 f) Gir Tiger Reserve 52 g) Indravati Tiger Reserve 53 h) Kanha Tiger Reserve 53-54 i) Manas Tiger Reserve 54 j) Melghat Tiger Reserve 54-55 k) Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve 55 l) Namdapha Tiger Reserve 55 m) Palamau Tiger Reserve 55 n) Panna Tiger Reserve 56 o) Pench Tiger Reserve 56 p) Satpura Tiger Reserve 56 q) Simlipal Tiger Reserve 56 r) Sundarbans Tiger Reserve 57 s) Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve 57 t) Terai Tiger Reserve 57 (iv) S. No. Details Years Page No. (III) WWF Project Tiger/ Leopard 1976-2011 58-60 (IV) Buffaloes 1974-2012 60-62 (V) Deer 1977-2010 62-63 (VI) Elephants/ Rhinoceros 1978-2017 63-68 (VII) Wolf 1991-1997 68 (VIII) Other Wild Animals 1996-2008 68-70 (9) Studies on Avians 1977-2018 70-78 (I) Bird Trade 1977-1997 70 (II) Cranes 1981-1999 70-71 (III) The Great Indian Bustard/Lesser Florican 1982-2015 71-75 (IV) Conservation Plans and Strategies for Birds 1984-2018 75-78 (V) Pheasant 1986 78 (VI) Birds of National Parks 1986-1998 78 (10) Aquatic World 1978-2011 79-82 (I) Crocodiles/Gharial 1978-1993 79 (II) Aquatic Biosphere 1978-2011 79-81 (III) Dolphins/Whales 1986-2011 81-82 (IV) Turtles 1993 82 (v) S. No. Details Years Page No. (11) Bhopal Gas Tragedy 1984-1989 83 (12) Wildlife Trafficking/Illegal Trade Control 1992-2016 83-85 (13) Miscellaneous Material 1974-2017 85-87 WRITINGS/ SPEECHES BY M.K. 1982-2018 88-102 Ranjitsinh (I) Ph.D. Thesis 1982-1990 88 (II) On Wildlife Conservation/ 1970-2018 88-95 Management/Legislation (III) On National Parks/Sanctuaries 1975-2018 95-98 (IV) On Cheetah/Lion 1986-2014 98-99 (V) On Tiger 1998-1999 99-101 (VI) Book Reviews 1988-2017 101-102 (VII) Miscellaneous 1999-2004 102 ARTICLES ON M.K. RANJITSINH 1974-2017 103-104 ARTICLES BY OTHERS 1993-2017 104 OTHER PAPERS 1990-2015 105 CATALOGUE OF THE PAPERS OF DR. M.K. RANJITSINH FILES ARRANGED SUBJECT WISE S. No. Years/Details Comments/ No. of Pages (1) Wildlife Census, 1960-1995 1. 1960-1994 Papers relating to the census of wildlife in the state of Madhya Pradesh. English These include data on the number of animals in the different wildlife sanctuaries of the state like Kanha, Madhav, Bandhavgarh, Panna, Satpura, Fossils and Vanvihar. Also includes data of the population of various animals like Wild Buffaloes Deer, Tiger, Panther Sambhar, Neelgai, Leopard, Cheetal, Barasingha, etc. Also includes Elephant capture during the period of Maharaja Mayurbhanj by Nilmani Senapati and Nabin Kumar Sahu, Tiger census in the different wildlife circle and divisions of Madhya Pradesh, a note from D.K. Jain and Tiger census in Madhya Pradesh as per 1989 census. 2. 1984-1993 Papers relating to the wildlife census in Rajasthan. These include a list of English the National Parks and Wildlife sanctuaries in Rajasthan and the census of various animals like Tiger, Cheetal, Neelgai, Wild Boar, Wild Pig, Languor, Monkey, Crocodile, etc. in the sanctuaries like Mergarh, Sawai Madhaopur, Bharatpur, Jaisamand, Mount Abu etc. Also includes a letter from R.S. Bhandari, Chief Conservator Forest, Rajasthan (2) 3. 1993 Papers relating to the wildlife census reports of Gujarat, Maharashtra and English Goa. Includes reports on the wildlife conservation in Gujarat, also includes letters from R.N. Indurkar, Chief Conservator of Forests, Maharashtra, D.N.M. Natyak, Chief Conservator of Forest Gujarat and letter from the Chief Conservator of Forest, Goa.
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