The common agricultural heritage of India and Southeast Asia: A different environmental reality

Abstract

To seek a common heritage between agriculture in India and Southeast Asia requires a broad focus. Common technologies, agricultural species, and problems may be cited as evidence of historical interrelationships across the region, but the common heritage in fact is deeper than such physical factors, for heritage itself relates to human relationships. The development of agriculture indicates common regional legacies, but it is the historical interactions between India and Southeast Asia that provide the most critical of commonalities in attitudes to nature, which incidentally contrast with attitudes of the modern West. Therefore, the discussion firstly considers agriculture and history as pre..