CONTENTS
Acknowledgement v
Introduction vii
Preface xiii
1 The Geological Background of Indian History
D.N. Wadia 3
2 Geological Concepts in Ancient India
K.S. Murty 23
3 Development of Geological thought in Ancient and Medieval India
S.R.N. Murthy 35
4 Karewa Microvertebrates : Palaeoecological Implications
Ashok Sahni and B.S. Kotlia 59
5 Geomorphology, Late Quaternary Stratigraphy and Plaeoloclimatology of the Thar Dunefield
R.J. Wasson, S.N. Rajaguru,
V N. Misra, D.P. Agrawal,
R.P. Dhir, A.K. Singhvi and
K. Kameshwara Rao 85
6 Cartography in Mughal India
Irfan Habib 151
7 Tieffenthaler on Latitudes and Longitudes in India -An Eighteenth Century Study of Geo graphical Coordinates
S.N. Sen 173
8 Preliminary Sedimentological Study on the Quarternary Deposits on Kashmir
D.P. Agrawal, P.S. Datta, S.Kusumgar, N.C. Mehrotra, V Nautiyal, R.K. Pant and S.L. Shali 207
9 Studies on the Loess Deposits of the Kashmir Valley and 14C Dating
Sheela Kusumgar, D.P. Agrawal and R. V. Krishnamurthy 217
10 Ostracodes and Palaeoecology of the Karewa Formation of Hirpur and Romushi Sections, Kashmir, India
S.B. Bhatia, R.S. Batra and B.S. Kotlia 229
11 Chronology of Kashmir Loess
Sheela Kusumgar and D.P. Agrawal 241
12 Palynostratigraphy and Palaeoenvironments of Kashmir Hirpur Loc. Ill
H.P. Gupta, Chhaya Sharma, Rekha Dodia, Chetna Mandavia and A.B.Vora 247
13 Magnetostratigraphy of the Karewa Ossiferous Horizons from the Kashmir Valley, India
Sheela Kusumagr, B.S. Kotlia, D.P. Agrawal and K. Ashok Sahni 279
Index 283