Traditional Knowledge System and Technology in India

About the BookNow, 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 for this knowledge 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 is 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, protohistoric, 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, GOs, administrators, researchers and academicians etc.