TY - BOOK AU - Devappa, V. M. AU - Khageshan, P. AU - Mise, S. R. TI - Drought Practice, Beliefs and Social Religious Observances : : a case study of Gulbarga District Karnataka, India SN - 09733574 KW - Drought KW - Rainfall KW - Farmers KW - Beliefs N2 - Gulbarga district falls in Krishna river basin one among the drought prone districts of Karnataka Drought conditions in the districts were the result of climatic variations in rainfull and occurrence of breaks. The drought prone situation has also evolved its own social religious and other practices to predict a future drought or rainfall. Beliefs, prediction of drought/rainfall, of them found to be prevailing in Gulbarga districts as expressed by the villagers during a household survey. The people believed in such superstitious. In this study an attempts has been made to summarize such superstitious and discussed briefly ER -