Vol 11: Daroji Valley: Landscape History, Place And The Making Of A Dryland Reservoir System

Locate in northern Karnataka, this valley served as a corridor of movement during the Southern Neolithic, an iron-smelting locale in the Early Historic, and, most dramatically, as an area of food production for the imperial city of Vijayanagara, especially in the sixteenth century. Home to one of southern India's most famous chains of runoff-fed reservoirs, this study examines the ways in which the Daroji Valley interacted with larger worlds through time, and explores how and why the dramatic agrarian expansion of the Vijayanagara period led to devastating environment consequences. ISBN:9788173047794 316 Yr. of Pub.2009 English