TY  - GEN
AU  - Pratap, Ajay
TI  - Hoe and the axe: an ethnohistory of shifting cultivation in Eastern India
SN  - 9789350029251
U1  - 930.1341 PRA 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Aakar Books
KW  - Archaeology—India
KW  - Cultural Anthropology
KW  - Agricultural History
KW  - Rajmahal Hills
KW  - Santal Parganas
KW  - Banaras Hindu University
N1  - Includes Index
N2  - This study is the first ever attempt in India to tackle the archaeology of shifting cultivation. As such it takes an ethno-historic path to expose the changes wrought upon the shifting cultivation system of the Paharias of Santal Paraganas and so to explain its presently observable dynamics. The goal of the study is to extract from its ethnohistory a model for predicting the archaeological material of the Rajmahal Hills. A survey strategy was designed based on the intensive study of the Paharia settlements, resource use, and technology, after studying the present settlement patterns. This book will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, agricultural scientists, administrators, and policy planners. https://aakarbooks.com/product/the-hoe-and-the-axe-an-ethnohistory-of-shifting-cultivation-in-eastern-india/?srsltid=AfmBOooGgg0MVrpdere5r09JdfP_IlGkDI2ztGFvvkLdR1KuWVID2SSI
ER  -