A History of Agriculture in India v2.c50.13

v2.c50.13

In the tenth and eleventh centuries Arab geographers wrote on the geography, climate, people, soils and crops of Sind and Gujarat. The earliest among them was Ibn Khurdadba, a high official of the Caliphs of Baghdad, who died in A.D. 912. He employed his leisure in topographical and geographical researches, and the result was his book *Kitab-l Masalik wa-l Mamalik (Book of Roads and Kingdoms)*, in which he provides an excellent description of Sind, its people and crops.