Traditional Knowledge System and Technology In India

Contents: Preface. 1. Technique of prehistoric rock art in India/Atul Chandra Bhowmick. 2. Organization of ceramics production in Chalcolithic Balathal Rajasthan/Anup R. Mishra. 3. Traditional agriculture and irrigation technology of the Harappans/Rajesh Kumar and P. Anuradha. 4. Pre-industrial iron smelting technique in Eastern India: with special reference to Odisha/Basanta Kumar Mohanta. 5. Ethno-archaeological observation on metal crafts in Assam/Pranab K. Chattopadhyay and Surajit Lahiri. 6. Traditional salt making among the meiteis of Manipur: a study on intangible cultural heritage/N. Shakmacha Singh and Kishor K. Basa. 7. The Mauleys of Sundarban: traditional wisdom of honey collection/Binita Basu. 8. Traditional methods of oil extraction among the Nicobarese of Katchal Island/D.V. Prasad. 9. Traditional river fishing technology/Tanaya Kundu Chowdhury and Shyamal Kumar Nandy. 10. Traditional technology park of the Indira Gandhi Rastriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal/Basanta Kumar Mohanta. Now, when the world has shrunk into a global village, tribes and rural people of India still use various kinds of traditional techniques and knowledge systems for their survival. Because of the industrialization, modernization, globalization etc. this traditional knowledge system and techniques are disappearing rapidly from the world. The present book is an effort to record, conserve, preserve as well as to create awareness system to rescue these vanishing traditional techniques. Traditional Knowledge System and Technology in India foregrounds the eco-friendly scientific developments of the people of India who lived and still are living a life of crises in remote areas. This book contains 29 articles on different aspects of traditional knowledge systems and technologies practiced by the tribal and rural folk of different parts of the India, covering the area of prehistoric, proto-historic, historic as well as the ethnographic contexts. The important sub areas covered by this book includes, traditional economic activates, health care system, art and crafts irrigation and water management systems, communication, natural resource management etc. This book will be useful for the anthropologists, archaeologists, industrialists, scientists, environmentalists, ethno-botanists, NGOs, administrators, researchers and academicians etc.…