[INDOLOGY] Land use in ancient North India
Howard Resnick
hr at ivs.edu
Tue Aug 8 17:27:57 UTC 2023
I should have also thanked Manish Walvekar for his help which was sent to me personally.
Howard
> On Aug 8, 2023, at 1:06 PM, Howard Resnick <hr at ivs.edu> wrote:
>
> 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,
>> <image.png>
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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.
>>>
>>> Many thanks for any resources, especially links to relevant maps.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Howard
>>>
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