We wish to express our grateful thanks to all the authors who contributed their research/review articles. We thank them for their cooperation and erudition. We also thank several colleagues for their help in many ways and for their suggestions from time to time during the evolution of this attractive and readable volume.
We wish to express our appreciation and help rendered by Ms. Sandra Sickels, Rakesh Kumar, and the staff of Apple Academic Press. Above all, their professionalism has made this book a reality and is greatly appreciated.
We thank Mr. John Adams, Senior Research Fellow of Prof. K.V. Krishnamurthy, for his help in many ways.
We wish to express our grateful thanks to our respective family members for their cooperation.
We hope that this book will help our fellow teachers and researchers who enter the world of the fascinating subject of ethnobotany in India with confidence, as we perceived and planned.