Contents:
General introduction/D.P. Chattopadhyaya;
Editors. Contributors. Introduction/V.C. Srivastava;
I. Origin and beginnings of agriculture;
1. Origin of agriculture in the Middle Ganga Plain/Purushottam Singh;
2. Beginnings of agriculture in the Vindhyas (North Central India)/V.D. Misra;
3. Beginnings of agriculture in the Vindhya Ganga Region/Radha Kant Varma;
4. Recent excavations at Tokwa Fresh light on the early farming culture of the Vindhyas/J.N. Pal;
5. The settlement and subsistence pattern of the early farming cultures in the Middle Ganga Plain/J.N. Pandey and R.P. Tripathi;
6. Beginnings of agriculture in the Middle Ganga Plain with special reference to recent excavations at Jhusi/M.C. Gupta J.N. Pal and V.D. Misra;
7. Origin and beginning of agriculture in Indian borderland the case of Afghanistan/V.C. Srivastava;
8. History of Millet cultivation in India/Purushottam Singh;
9. The origin and history of Barley in India/B.D. Sharma;
10. The origin and history of wheat in Indian agriculture/B.D. Sharma;
11. The origin and history of Gram in India/B.D. Sharma;
12. The origin and history of Potato in India/B.D. Sharma;
II. Harappan and Vedic facets of agriculture;
13. Agriculture in the Garhwal Himalayas an ethnographic perspective/K.P. Nautiyal Pradeep M. Saklani and Vinod Nautiyal;
14. Agriculture in the Indus Civilization/S.R. Rao;
15. Agriculture in the Vedic age a review/V.C. Srivastava;
16. The spirituality and the development of agriculture in the Vedic age/A.K. Sinha;
17. Some materials for the study of agriculture in Vedic India problems and perspectives/A.L. Yadav;
18. Agrarian system in Ancient India Harappan and Vedic/Om Prakash;
19. Animal husbandry in the Vedas/N.M. Kansara.
III. Agriculture from the Chalcolithic Phase to C. 600 BC;
20. Agricultural background of the Chalcolithic cultures of Central India and the Deccan/Ranjit Pratap Singh;
21. Agriculture in Chalcolithic and early Iron Age of North Central India/Anup Mishra;
22. Agriculture in the Gangetic Plains during the first Millennium BC/Vibha Tripathi;
23. The early Indian agrarian society and technology adaptation/Vibha Tripathi;
IV. Agriculture in early Ancient India (From C. 600 BC to C. 600 AD);
24. Agriculture as revealed by the Pali literature/H.S. Shukla;
25. Irrigation and famine as referred in Pali sources/H.S. Shukla;
26. Agriculture in the age of Sangam/H.N. Dubey;
27. The Graeco Roman accounts on ancient Indian agriculture and agricultural products/Udai Prakash Arora;
28. Agriculture in the Bactrian economy/Abhay Kumar Singh;
29. Land and land system and some allied issues in the Arthasastra/Sibesh Bhattacharya;
30. Agriculture as reflected in the Dharmasastra tradition/A.P. Ojha;
31. Problems and perspectives of agricultural taxes in early Northern India/O.P. Srivastava. V. Agriculture in early medieval India (From C. 600 AD To c.1200 AD);
32. Some aspects of sharecropping in India in ancient and early medieval times/B.N.S. Yadava;
33. Irrigation in South India (Upto 1300 AD) Techniques and management/K.V. Raman;
34. Some aspects of agriculture as described in the Lokopakara/A.V. Narsimha Murthy;
35. Agricultural technology as known from the Krsi Parasara/D.K. Ganguly;
36. Agriculture as known from Khana's Vacanas/Rita Chaudhuri;
37. Vrksayurveda in ancient India/Brajdeo Prasad Roy;
38. Artificial means of irrigation in early medieval Northern India with special reference to Arahatta or Araghatta/Meenashri Yadav;
39. Role of forced labour in ancient Indian agriculture/G.K. Rai;
40. Peasant differentiation and categorization in Northern India in early Medieval Times (Sixth Seventh to Twelfth Century AD)/Meenashri Yadav;
41. The history of agriculture in South India/Vijaya Ramaswamy;
42. Expansion of agriculture in ancient Bengal/Puspa Niyogi;
43. Agricultural economy of Gujarat aspects and appraisal upto 1300 AD/Rasesh Jamindar;
44. Agricultural knowledge system in ancient India and its relevance in sustainable development/Anil Kumar Pan