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The caste, though most important social institution of this country, is the most misunderstood one. It has undergone a lot of changes during last millennium, and to a large extent, it is a post-Turk phenomenon in its present form. The perception haziness about the caste, and about India’s culture and tradition, is due to colonial myth-making and growing culture and tradition illiteracy of the educated Indians. The book deals with various aspects of caste, culture and traditions of India.

The book Indian Prehistoric Archaeological Anthropology is a valuable contribution in describing sites, industries, traditions and cultures of our those ancestors who were struggling hard for their survivals as hunters, gatherers, cave dwellers and parasite on nature particularly forest. They had faced environments like glacial and interglacial and pluvial and interpluvial. They were not literate. Their entire lifestyle has been reconstructed on the basis of stone tools, copper tools, bronze tools, iron tools and different types and designs of potteries. On the basis of their struggle they progressed through three successive stages — Savagery, barbarism and civilization. They led a life of savage from lower palaeolithic to mesolithic period. They gave rise to revolution in neolithic period and entered in the stage of barbarism. By establishing organized civil and urban life in Indus Valley they established the civilization. After downfall of Indus Valley civilization they laid the foundation of village civilization along with copper smithy, bronze smithy and ceramic industries. Finally, they gave rise the Iron age culture along with pottery designs, and ceramic industries. The book covers 14 chapters and more than 325 maps, river sections, site sections, picture of stone tools, copper tools, copper objects, iron tools, house designs, potteries, ceramic industries and terracotta figures.

This volume is quite unique and timely in terms of consolidating some of the most recent theoretical, R&D as well as empirical analyses of the performance outcomes and farm level responses. It is also timely as it unfolds the debate on the wider adoption of Bt technology, which addresses some of the apprehensions that prevail over the GM crop varieties. The volume provides a holistic perspective on the state of Bt cotton technology in India, in terms of presenting the institutional, R&D, policy regimes and regulatory environments, that are seemingly inadequate to address the veracity of challenges facing the technology and its legitimacy and social relevance in rendering future of cotton farming more sustainable and inclusive. To the best of our understanding, this volume is perhaps the first of its kind that engages with the critical aspects of Bt cotton adoption in India since its introduction in 2003.