[INDOLOGY] Land use in ancient North India

[Howard Resnick]

Sincere thanks to Greg and Dominik for these references.

Best wishes,
Howard

> On Aug 8, 2023, at 12:51 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It may not answer your quantitative question, Howard,  but two recent articles that address relevant issues, by Fred Smith and tom Trautmann, are published in 
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> Fleming, Christopher T., Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Anuj Misra, and Vishal Sharma, eds. Science and Society in the Sanskrit World. Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2023.
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> namely, 
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> On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 at 19:19, Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu <mailto:hr at ivs.edu>> wrote:
>> Dear Scholars,
>> 
>> Are there any reliable estimates of land use in ancient India, especially in the main areas of Northern India where Mahābhārata events take place? I am especially interested in relative precentages and locations of land reserved as forests, or great forests (mahā-vanāni), and land actively farmed. Nowadays it seems that in the North Indian plains there are precious few great forests.
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>> Many thanks for any resources, especially links to relevant maps.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Howard
>> 
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