A History of Agriculture in India v1.c49.17

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Harappan civilization and culture, 137–55 achievements, 181–82 destruction by the Aryans, 181 bullock-cart, 157 decline, 181 domestic animal, 184–212 ass, 193–94 buffalo, 187–91 bull, 184–85 camel, 192–93 cat, 211 elephant, 191–93 horse, absence of, 287 pig, 195–211 zebu, 185–87 domestication of birds, 212 fowl, 212–13 India, 139–55 Pakistan, 130–39 Mesopotamian influence, 132 use of wood, 181–82 Harappan irrigation system, 289 Harappan sites India, 139–51 Gujarat, 151 Haryana, 142–47 Jammu, 147 Madhya Pradesh, 154 Punjab, 139–42 Rajasthan, 148–51 West U.P., 147–48 Pakistan, 130–39 Harappans, 132–37 Harshacharita, 428 Haryana camels in agriculture, 193 Harappan sites, 142–47 Bhagwanpura, 142–43 soil, 14 Harvests and harvesting, 299, 317 Greek account, 360 Jatakas, 361 Hastinapur Iron Age site, 304, 308 Painted Grey Pottery, 305 rice, 271,318 HAWKES, Jacquetta, 76, 109 pebble tools, 68 Hearths of agriculture, 268–69 HELBACK, emergence of new plants, 111 Hemiones, 282 Hipparion, ancestor of horse, 281 Hippopotamus, 46 The Himalayas formation, 3, 4 glaciations, 61 still rising, 68 HIUEN TSANG, 421–26 visit to Lumbini grove, 325–26 Hindus, and the banyan tree, 327 Hobindian culture, Thailand, 265–66 Holocene, 56 Homa and soma drinks, 279 Hominids, 49–53 Hominization, 48–55 Homo habilis, 54–55 Homo erectus, 63–68 Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, 71–75 Homo sapiens sapiens, 75–76 Honry, 315 from wild bees, 99 Horse and ancient civilization, 289 absence in Harappan civilization, 287 centre of origin, 282 earliest pictorial record, 287 and elephants, 192 evolution, 283–84 Horse-bones finds, 305–307 Horse-breeding, 284, 278 Aryans, 278 Horse-flesh and the Aryans, 293 Horse-harness, 288 Horses domestication, 282–87 by Aryans, 280 in India, 287–89 import, 420–21 Kushan period, 401 later-Vedic, 317 Mauryan period, 373–74 trade with Arabia, 446–55 Sintashta, USSR, 281 Horticulture Harappan agriculture, 180 Mesopotamia, 112 Houses Ahar-Banasian culture, 150–51 Kalibangan, 149 later-Vedic, 314 Neolithic, 107, 264 see also Dwelling pits HROZNY, and Kikkuli Text, 284-87 Hunters and hunting Aryan sport, 296 early man, 82 Mesolithic, 78-82 Palaeolithic, 71