ABSTRACT
Indian culture is typified by variety of religions, languages, customs, literature and various physical form implications such as house types, temple designs, dress, food preparation, and construction of bullock carts, boats and ploughs and a host of other features. Indian geographers, with some important exceptions, have virtually ignored cultural geographic studies though some limited work has been done under the title of social geography, population studies, settlement geography, including house types, historical, and linguistic geography. Folk culture, festivals and native customs have been the subject matter of study for many social anthropologists in India, but their regional variation, spatial uniqueness and diffusion patterns seldom have been researched using a geographer's perspective. Cultural patterns can be studied in the villages as well as in the cities. Literary geography, which is a part of cultural geography, can be used in assessing the evolution of regional culture and differentiation of city and rural cultures.
