[INDOLOGY] Land use in ancient North India

[Howard Resnick]

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:
>> 
>> 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 
>> 
>> 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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