000 | 02444nam a2200181Ia 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
999 |
_c159477 _d159477 |
||
020 | _a0198070004 | ||
040 | _cCUS | ||
082 |
_a333.70934 _bKAP/E |
||
245 | 0 |
_aEnvironmental history of early India: a reader/ _c Edited by Nandini Sinha Kapur |
|
260 |
_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2011. |
||
300 |
_a282p. _c23cm. |
||
505 | _aPublisher'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. | ||
650 |
_a Human ecology -- India -- History. _94795 |
||
650 |
_aNature -- Effect of human beings on -- India -- History. _94796 |
||
650 |
_aHuman beings -- Effect of environment on -- India -- History. _94797 |
||
700 |
_aKapur, Nandani Sinha ed. _94798 |
||
942 |
_cWB16 _03 |