Book ID: 88868
Ashraf, Jaweed
Studies in Historical Ecology of India. 2004. XIV, 247 p. g8vo. Hardcover.
Chapter headings: Ecology as Culture/ Concept of Forest in Kautilya and its Significance for the Emergence of Land Use Pattern in India/ Some Aspects of Indian Ecology in Arab Accounts/ Portuguese Sources and New World Plant introductions in India/ Light, Sand and Thermal Damage to Archeological Monuments/ Nature Dependent Water Management: A yet functioning medieval underground canal at Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh)/ Centralized and Decentralized Paradigms of Development: Case Study of Water Management in Medieval and Modern Delhi.