"There is really no Indian agriculture as such, but a group of related regional complexes differing in important details, including inventories of cultivated plants. Sanskrit, being a supraregional language, incorporates terms relating to various regional features."
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Masica (1979) 1979. "Aryan and Non-Aryan Elements in North Indian Agriculture." In Aryan and Non-Aryan in India (55-151). Ed. M. Deshpande and P. Hook. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (58). quoted in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. ch 5
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