Exchange Relations And Poverty In Dryland Agriculture (Studies Of South India)

by Barbara Harriss

Overview

This dictionary, based on the Srauta and Grhya Sutras, attempts to explain all significant terms related to the Vedic sacrificial rituals. Besides the Sanskrit term and its transliteration in Roman as well as its meaning in English, Chitrabhanu Sen tries to describe the exact purport of the term, different usages and its correlation with other sacrificial concepts. For the Srauta rites, this work focusses mainly on As'valayana Sutra of Aitareya Brahmana; Bandharadvaja and Apastamba Sutras of the Taittiriya Brahmana, and the Katyayana Sutra of the Satapatha Brahmana, which are code books of the Hotr, and Adhvaryu priests. For the domestic rites, the author has used Asvalayana, Kathaka, Baudhayana, Bharadvaja, Apastamba, Hiranyakesin Paraskara, Gobila and Kausika grhyasutras. All the important implements and utensils, which were used in Vedic sacrifices, also find place in Appendices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354392412
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	172
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

DR. BARBARA HARRISS is Research Fellow in Food Policy in the Nutrition Policy Unit of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London University. She has previously held research posts in the Overseas Development Institute, London and the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge University. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia and the Madras Institute of Development Studies and has worked as a consultant to a number of United Nations' Agencies (FAO, UNICEF, UNRISD, ICRISAT&IFPRI). Interested for over a decade in the political economy of agricultural trade, she has carried out fieldwork in North Arcot and Coimbatore districts of Tamil Nadu, in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and West Bengal and in the West African Sahel. She has personally interviewed over a thousand merchants in South Asia. She has over 70 papers published in academic journals or as chapters of edited books. Her own books are Paddy and Rice Marketing in Northern Tamil Nadu (Sangam, Madras, 1979), Transitional Trade and Rural Development (Vikas, Delhi, 1981), Agrarian Change and the Mercantile State {CreA Madras, 1983), State and Market (Concept, Delhi, 1983). She is married to John Harriss and they have two children.