Title: Environmental History of Early India: A Reader
Abstract:Publisher's Acknowledgments Introduction, SECTION I: FORESTS, DEFORESTATION, STATES, AND LEGITIMATION 1. Of Tribes, Hunters and Barbarians: Forest Dwellers in the Mauryan Period Aloka Parasher Sen 2. ...Publisher's Acknowledgments Introduction, SECTION I: FORESTS, DEFORESTATION, STATES, AND LEGITIMATION 1. Of Tribes, Hunters and Barbarians: Forest Dwellers in the Mauryan Period Aloka Parasher Sen 2. Wilderness and Kingship in Ancient South Asia Nancy Falk 3. The Study of Settlement Pattern in Cola Period: Some Perspectives R. Champakalakshmi 4. An Aspect of Rural Landscape in the Rashtrakuta Kingdom Shyam Narayan Lal SECTION II: LANDGRANTS, SETTLEMENTS, AND RURAL LANDSCAPE 5. Natural Resources and Human Settlements: Perceiving the Environment in India Ranabir Chakravarti 6. Irrigation in Early Medieval Rajasthan B.D. Chattopadhyaya 7. Patronage and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu: A Long-term View David Ludden 8. Pastoralism as Reflected in the Classical Tamil Theory of Landscapes Kamil V. Zvelebil SECTION III: WATER RESOURCES, IRRIGATION, AND AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION 9. Between Ghost and God: A Folk Deity of the Deccan Gunther Dietz Sontheimer 10. Landscapes in Conflict, Flocks, Hero-stones, and Cult in Early Medieval Maharashtra Ajay Dandekar 11. In Which Part of South Asia did the Early Brahmanical Tradition (1st millennium BC) Take its Form? Kumkum Roy 12. Perceiving the Forest: Early India Romila Thapar SECTION IV: PASTORALISM, ECOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND STATE 13. Tirtahs and Acculturation: An Anthropological Study Vijay Nath 14. Early South Indian Society and Economy: The Tinai Concept K. Sivathamby 15. Agrarian Expansion and Rise of States R. S. Sharma 16. Geographical Setting and Agrarian Economy V. K. Jain 17. Ethnohistory of Pastoralism: A Study of the Kuruvas and Gollas M. L. K. Murty SECTION V: ECOLOGY, SOCIETY IN LITERATURE AND RELIGION 18. Settlements and Economy Nayanjyot Lahiri 19. Life, Forests, and Plant Sciences in Ancient India Anil Rawat Bibliography.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-03-25
Language: en
Type: book
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