CONTENTS

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Ethnobotany of India 5-volume Series

About the Editors

1. Introduction

Bir Bahadur, K. V. Krishnamurthy and T. Pullaiah

2. Ethnic Diversity in Central and Western Himalaya

Mamta Sharma and S. K. Sood

3. Ethnic Food Plants and Ethnic Food Preparation in Western and Central Himalayas

Basant Ballabh and T. Pullaiah

4. Ethnomedicinal Plants of Subalpine and Alpine Region of Uttarakhand Himalaya

Harsh Singh and Veena Dixit

5. Ethnomedicinal Plants of Western and Central Himalayas

Basant Ballabh, O. P. Chaurasia, P. C. Pande and Pullaiah

6. Ashtavarga Plants: A Review

S. John Adams, T. Senthil Kumar, G. Muthuraman and Anju Majeed

7. A Reconnaissance of Ethnic Psychedelic Plants of Western Himalaya and their Possible Identity to Soma

K. V. Krishnamurthy and Bir Bahadur

8. Ethnoveterinary Medicinal Plants of Western and Central Himalayas

T. Pullaiah, K. V. Krishnamurthy, Bir Bahadur, John Adams and T. N. Manohara

9. Ethnobotany of Useful Plant Species in North Western Himalaya, India

A. Rajasekaran, Joginder Singh, S. P. Subramani and Shalu Devi

10. Ethno-Conservation Practices in North Western Himalaya, India

A. Rajasekaran, Vaneet Jishtu, Yogesh Gokhale, Nazir A. Pala and Jagdish Singh

11. The Sacred Natural Sites, The Social Taboo System and the Scope of Developing Some of the Sites as Biodiversity Heritage Sites, Uttarakhand, Central Himalaya

Chandra Singh Negi

Index