Bikram Grewal is an ornithologist, author, birdwatcher and conservationist from

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its Bank (geography ...

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who has written several guides to Indian birds. His father was a senior civil servant in the Indian government. He has been working with governments and private groups to promote Eco-tourism in

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Arunachal Arunachal Pradesh (; ) is a state in northeast India. It was formed from the North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and India declared it as a state on 20 February 1987. Itanagar is its capital and largest town. It borders the Indian sta ...

and

Nagaland Nagaland () is a States and union territories of India, state in the northeast India, north-eastern region of India. It is bordered by the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south, and the Naga Sel ...

. His 2002 book Birds of India has been a best-seller among Indian bird books. He has also been part of the Inheritance Series brought out by Sanctuary Asia.

Books by Bikram Grewal

# Insight Guides : India (1988) # A Photographic Guide to Birds of the Himalayas (with

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, 1999) # Photographic guide to birds of India (2002) # Atlas of Birds of Delhi and Haryana (2006) # The Sundarbans Inheritance (with Bittu Sahgal and Sumit Sen), # The Bharatpur Inheritance (with Bittu Sahgal), and # The Corbett Inheritance (with Brijendra Singh and Bittu Sahgal)

References

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