Famines in Ancient India

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This book, unique in its kind, attempts to define the factors responsible for famines in pre-and proto-historic periods of Indian history based on archaeological data in ecological context and literary sources. An extensive study of archaeological reports, covering a large chronological span, from the Harappan cultural horizon till the beginning of Christian er5a, reveal of numerous droughts and floods which devastated many geographical units with human settlements from time to time. Ecological degeneration due to concentration of population and degradation due to deforestation, contributed largely to the failures in agricultural sector. The author has analyzed the economic factors related to cultivation process, agricultural products and their distribution. She has further elaborated why and how the human relationship, community structure and social behavioural pattern suffered and got into the process of transformation due to severe hardship of famines.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Atreyi Biswas

Dr. Atreyi Biswas (b.1941) is a senior faculty member of Satyawati Co-educational College, Delhi University. Born in a family of academics, she did her postgraduate studies at Agra College and School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Her earlier works, Political History of the Hunas in India (1973) and Prachin Bharat ka Rajnitik, Samajik aur Sanskritik Itihas (Political, Social and Cultural History of Ancient India, 1982) were very well received. Several of her research papers have been published in Indian and foreign academic journals.

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Title
Famines in Ancient India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
812120660x
Length
299p., Tables; Bibliography; Index; 23cm
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