This reader provides a multilayered analysis of different aspects of history,politics, economy and its interface with environment and ecology in early India. It focuses on forests, deforestation, tribes and states; land grants, settlements, and rural landscape; water resources, irrigation, and agricultural expansion; ecology in literature and religion; and pastoralism, ecology, and society. INDICE: 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 inCola 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.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-807000-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 20/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés