Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.15
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.15
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c20.15
We ought also to remember that India has very little occasion for the introduction of new plants for food. There are more kinds of grain cultivated perhaps, than in any other part of the world. She has also a vast variety of nutritive roots, and as a fruit, the plantain alone supplies her with the most nourishing diet.