CONTENTS

List of Contributors

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1.Introduction

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

2.Ethnic Diversity

K. V. Krishnamurthy, Bir Bahadur, and S. John Adams

3.The Influence of Trade, Religion and Polity on the Ethnic Diversity and Ethnobotany of the Western Peninsular India

K. V. Krishnamurthy

4.European Contributions to the Ethnobotany of Western Peninsular India During 16^th to 18^th Centuries

K. V. Krishnamurthy and T. Pullaiah

5.Listening to a Fairy Tale on a Moonlit Night…Some Reflections on the Human Affinities with Plants in the Worldviews of Indigenous Communities along the Western Ghats of Karnataka

B. S. Somashekhar

6.Ethnobotanicals of Western Ghats

S. Noorunnisa Begum, K. Ravi Kumar, and D. K. Ved

7.Contemporary Relevance of Ethno-Veterinary Practices and a Review of Ethnoveterinary Medicinal Plants of Western Ghats

M. N. B. Nair and N. Punniamurthy

8.Medicinal Flora and Related Traditional Knowledge of Western Ghats: A Potential Source for Community-Based Malaria Management Through Endogenous Approach

B. N. Prakash, P. M. Unnikrishnan, and G. Hariramamurthi

9.Plant-Based Ethnic Knowledge on Food and Nutrition in the Western Ghats

Kandikere R. Sridhar and Namera C. Karun

10.Useful Plants of Western Ghats

S. Karuppusamy and T. Pullaiah

11.Ethnobotany of Mangroves with Particular Reference to West Coast of Peninsular India

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

12.Sacred Groves of Western Ghats: An Ethno-Based Biodiversity Conservation Strategy

K. V. Krishnamurthy and S. John Adams

13.Ethnobryology of India

Afroz Alam

Index