Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture

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Ableman, Michael, 13–14, 213, 215 Abundant Edible Landscapes, 205 Adivasi land use, 182–183, 184, 192, 210 Agarwal, Anil, 172 Agarwal, Arun, 51 Agarwal, Bina, 91 agricultural runoff, 25, 32–33, 59, 162 agriculture in France, 162, 191 agriculture in India animals and, x, 168, 235n1 degradation and, 59–62, 63 dharma and, 63, 66 fallow periods and, 183–184 Green Revolution and, xii, xiv, 107 industrial agriculture, xiii–xiv, 31, 60, 217 irrigation and, 58, 60, 98 organic agriculture, ix, xiv, 34, 217–218 plowing, 66, 98–99, 100, 103–104 in religious festivals, xi, 125–126, 234n2 as sacred, x, xiii, 24, 100, 109, 125–126 seeds and, x–xiii, 40, 107, 218 social and agricultural health, 62, 63, 64 traditional cropping systems, 42, 110, 218 Vedic rituals and, 63, 64, 230n11 water and, 65, 66, 81 Index women and, 91, 98–99, 100 See also Balaram and Yamuna River story; Hinduism; indigenous agriculture ; myth and agriculture; nagas; pastoral idyll, the agriculture in the United States, 91, 184 animal abuse and, 25, 158–159, 162, 224 concerns about, 5–6, 8–9, 23, 24–25, 31–33, 222 conservation practices in, 17, 212, 214–215 current practices, 1–4, 25, 59 family honor and, 212–213 human intervention and, 43–48, 76 land ethic and, 43, 117, 194, 200 narratives of, 35–36, 50–51, 53, 118–120 Puritans and, 174–175, 176, 177–178 reciprocity and, 190, 213 relationships and social situatedness in, 36, 37, 191–192 sociopolitical context of, 109–110 See also alternative agricultures; environmental discourse; food production; indigenous agriculture ; industrial agriculture; myth and agriculture; small-scale farms; wilderness Italic page numbers refer to photographs and illustrations 258 Index agroecological restoration, 16, 17, 44, 206, 210, 211, 212 agroecology, 6, 13, 16, 18, 34, 38, 44, 182–183, 202, 205 agroforestry, xiii, 182–183 Ahivasi Gaur Brahmans. See Pandas Akbar, Emperor, 169 Alpers, Paul, 163 alternative agricultures, 9–10, 16–18, 44, 90–91 examples of, 18, 34, 105, 205–211, 217 food as gift and, 209–210, 211, 216 intimacy and familiarity with food and, 131, 196, 197–198 intrinsic worth of all beings and, 200–201 jazz and, 13–14, 27, 213–214, 215 narratives of, 6, 52–53, 194, 202–203, 204, 224 reciprocity and, 6, 189, 205, 219 relationships and social situatedness in, 188–189, 195–196 seeds and, 40, 41–42, 107, 218 See also agroecology; conservation biology; organic agriculture; restoration ecology; small-scale farms; sustainable agriculture Altieri, Miguel, 16, 34, 38, 94 Anant. See Balaram; Shesh animal abuse, 25, 158–159, 162, 235n1 Apffel-Marglin, Frederique, 36, 178, 212 Arcadia, 112, 163, 165, 167–168 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), 45 Aurangzeb, Emperor, 86 Aztec religion, 62 Bacon, Francis, 35, 36, 37 Badgley, Catherine, 94 Balabhadra Mahatmya, 78, 123 Balaram anger of, 86, 88–89, 100, 116 bhang taking, 88, 139, 156, 157 dharma and, 57, 62, 76, 85, 86, 114, 167, 192 discovery of, as deity, 137–138, 234nn11–12, 235n15 family of, 69–71, 73–76, 129–130, 231nn20, 32 fertility of earth and, 58, 76, 77, 81, 85, 86, 154, 192–193, 231–232n37 gopis and, 78, 79, 80, 84, 85, 125, 214 intoxication of, 58, 79, 80, 83, 85, 86– 89, 113, 114, 116, 155, 156 Kalyandev and, 136–137, 138, 139– 140, 235n15 as king of Braj, 58, 67, 68–69, 79, 101, 113, 120, 124, 133, 191, 196 Krishna and, 22, 62, 67, 69–71, 86, 103, 112, 125, 132, 165–167, 214 Krishna and Demon Kamsha and, 72–73, 78–79 Krishna status and, 23, 57–58, 59, 113, 114, 130, 156, 231–232n37 as naga, 66, 69, 72, 75, 85, 103, 124, 134, 135, 138, 170 the pastoral idyll and, 22, 112, 113, 154, 165–167, 170–172 as patron of agriculture, 8, 67, 79, 112, 123, 136, 166, 167, 171, 191, 192 plow of, 58, 74–75, 78, 80, 89, 103, 106, 112, 123, 125, 144, 156, 167, 231n14 prasad from, 88, 141, 142, 146–147, 148, 149, 152 propriety and, 79, 80, 84–85, 86, 88, 113, 114, 129–130, 132 as protector, 58, 63, 69, 76, 77, 120, 130, 133, 140, 147, 155 as provider of water, 60, 69, 78, 83, 84, 155, 231n14 responsibilities of, 10, 19, 79, 83, 128, 197, 216–217 return to Braj, 58, 73, 76, 84 ritual service to, 58, 134–136, 138– 139, 150 rules of conduct and, 87, 88–89...