History of Agriculture in India, Up to C. 1200 A.D.History of Agriculture in India (up to c.1200 AD), Part 1, reconstructs the evolution of agriculture in India up to c.1200AD. It is a synthesis and summation of existing knowledge on the history of agriculture in ancient India on the combined bases of archaeological and literary sources against the backdrop of Asian history in general. Besides summing up the existing knowledge, it opens new vistas for further research on many debated issues in the history of agriculture in ancient India. The volume addresses the vexed and controversial questions on the origin, antiquity and sources of Indian agricultural history. Based on researches from sites of Vindhya, Ganga Region, plant remains, agricultural tools, pots, dental pathology, and settlement remains, it is an informed and highly researched work on the origin and antiquity of cultivation in India. For a historical study of agriculture, Pali, Sangam. Sanskrit and the Graeco-Roman literatures have been utilized. Art and literary sources have also been used to reconstruct history. |
Contents
Origin of Agriculture in the Middle Ganga Plain | 3 |
Beginnings of Agriculture in the Vindhyas NorthCentral India | 19 |
Beginnings of Agriculture in the VindhyaGanga Region | 31 |
Fresh Light on the Early Farming | 48 |
The Settlement and Subsistence Pattern of the Early Farming | 70 |
Beginnings of Agriculture in the Middle Ganga Plain with Special | 87 |
History of Millet Cultivation in India | 107 |
The Origin and History of Barley in India | 120 |
Irrigation and Famine as Referred in Pāli Sources | 410 |
The GraecoRoman Accounts on Ancient Indian Agriculture | 422 |
Agriculture in the Bactrian Economy | 443 |
Land and Land System and Some Allied Issues in the Arthaśāstra | 451 |
Agriculture as Reflected in the Dharmaśāstra Tradition | 464 |
Problems and Perspectives of Agricultural Taxes | 476 |
Some Aspects of Sharecropping in India in Ancient | 489 |
Techniques and Management | 496 |
The Origin and History of Wheat in Indian Agriculture | 126 |
The Origin and History of Gram in India | 143 |
The Origin and History of Potato in India | 149 |
An Ethnographic Perspective | 159 |
Agriculture in the Indus Civilization | 171 |
A Review | 203 |
The Spirituality and the Development of Agriculture in the Vedic Age | 219 |
Harappan and Vedic | 245 |
Animal Husbandry in the Vedas | 275 |
Agricultural Background of the Chalcolithic Cultures | 309 |
Agriculture in Chalcolithic and Early Iron Age of Northcentral India | 333 |
Agriculture in the Gangetic Plains During the First Millennium BC | 348 |
The Early Indian Agrarian Society and Technology Adaptation | 366 |
Agriculture as Revealed by the Pali Literature | 385 |
Some Aspects of Agriculture as Described in the Lōkōpakāra | 506 |
Agricultural Technology as Known from the KṛṣiParāśara | 513 |
Vrkṣayurveda in Ancient India | 550 |
Artificial Means of Irrigation in Early Medieval Northern India | 597 |
Peasant Differentiation and Categorization in Northern India | 611 |
Expansion of Agriculture in Ancient Bengal | 637 |
Aspects and Appraisal Upto 1300 AD | 702 |
Agricultural Knowledge System in Ancient India and its Relevance | 746 |
History of Agriculture as Reflected in the Art of India | 784 |
Therapeutic Value of Agricultural Produce and the Science | 837 |
Technique and Process of Agriculture in Early Medieval India | 856 |
Contributions of Asian AgriHistory Foundation | 881 |
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