A History of Agriculture in India v1.c49.26

v1.c49.26

Palaeolithic sites, 70 soil, 14–15 Maikop, USSR, pictorial records of horse, 287 Maize, hearth of, 269 Malabar coast evergreen forests, 41 origin of rice, 273 rock-cut graves, 307 Malwa-ware, 241 Mamallapuram, 438–39 Mammoths, 71 Man, development of, 48–55 *Australopithecines*, 53–54 fossil man find, 55 *Homo habilis*, 54 *Paranthropus*, 54 *Ramapithecus*, 49 Manasollasa, of Someshvara, 444–45, 478–79 Man-made plants, *see* Cultigens Manda, Jammu, Harappan site, 147 Mangoes, centre of origin, 269 Mangrove forests, 41–43 MANU, Laws of, 413, *see also Arthashastra* Manure, 416 MARCO POLO horse trade, 455 leather, 480 Maria Gonds, and shifting agriculture, 220, 221 Maritime trade, *see* Shipping and maritime trade MARSHAL, Sir John excavations in Sind, 130 Indus Valley finds, 81 pigs in Mohenjo-daro, 211 Mash (pulse), Chalcolithic crop, 243 Masur (pulse), spread of, 244 Mauryan age, agriculture, 360–64 MAX MULLER, F., 278 Maya culture, domestication of animals, 183 Meat-eating later-Vedic period, 315 Neanderthal man, 74 Vedic age, 293 MEDHATITHI on agriculture, 482–83 on industry and trade, 476–78 Medicinal plants centres of origin, 502, 503 in Vedas, 301–2