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Discuss the types of lands and the science of agriculture mentioned in the literature and epigraphs of ancient India.

  • UPSC 2011
  • Themes in Early Indian Cultural History

Ancient Indian literature and epigraphs together preserve a surprisingly precise agrarian vocabulary — one that distinguished cultivated from fallow land, rain-fed from irrigated tracts, and measured fields by the quantity of seed they required rather than by abstract area alone. Read together, Sanskrit and Prakrit texts on statecraft and agriculture and the land-grant inscriptions of…

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  • Types of Land in Literature and Epigraphs
  • The Science of Agriculture in Literary Texts
  • Irrigation, Soil Knowledge and the Administrative Framework
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