Thomas Kuhn and Changing Paradigm in Geography: Critical Review

The paper investigates and relooks at the concept of paradigm, proposed by Thomas Kuhn, in geography. Geography after mid of 20 th centaury to early 1990s has under gone change (also called as paradigm shift) from the ‘mono-discipline’ approach, involving ‘quantitative / qualitative’ methodology to the ‘multi-disciplinary’ approach. Paper critically examines how geography underwent change through research and writings during this period which further effected the nature, ideology, epistemology, methodology and philosophy of geography as a discipline.