A History of Agriculture in India v1.c49.19

v1.c49.19

Indo-Gangetic plain, 7 Indo-Gangetic soil, 12-14 Indus civilization, *see* Harappan civilization and culture Indus valley floods, 152 Industry and trade, ninth century, 478 Interglacial age, Second, 69 Intertrappeans, 2-3 Intoxicating drinks, Vedic, 315 Inventions, most momentous, 109 Iran basketry, 107 centre of cultivated plants, 269 homeland of Aryans, 280 Neolithic sites, 101 Iron Age, 66 North India, 307-19 agriculture, 317-19 Buddhist period, 338 cast system, 308 domestic animals, 316-17 occupations, 308-13 pastoralism, 315-16 social life, 313 Peninsular India, 306-7 Iron-pillar, Delhi, 417 Iron technology Gupta age, 417-18 Kushan period, 401 later-Vedic, 304-5 Satavahanas, 401 Irrigation Arthashastra, 363 Chalcolithic period, 113 Cholas, 405, 457-61 earliest evidence in India, 259 Egypt, 113 Gupta age, 418 Harappa, 289 Mauryan period, 362-63 rice cultivation, 306 South Indian kingdoms, 403, 457-61 Vedic age, 298 Israel, Neanderthal finds, 75 IVANOV, V., Indo-European languages, 280 Ivory, Kanauj empire, 426