Contents

1. The Study of Limnology 2. Genesis of the lakes of the Indian subcontinent 3. The lakes of Kashmir 4. The lakes of Kumaun 5. Coastal lakes of India 6. Physico-chemical complexes of fresh water lakes Mary Esther Cynthia and Atiya Khanum 7. On the distribution of microbes in Fresh water lakes and techniques of their study 8. Bacteria — a limnological perspective 9. Phytoplankton 10. Algal mats 11. Macrophytes 12. Primary production in lentic water ecosystem 13. Primary production of periphyton in two lakes of the Hyderabad metropolis 14. Zooplankton