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Ethnobotany of India
Volume: 2
Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India
Editor: T. Pullaiah, PhD
Former Professor, Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya
University, Andhra Pradesh, India
K. V. Krishnamurthy, PhD
Former Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, Bharathidasan
University, Tiruchirapalli, India
Bir Bahadur, PhD
Former Professor, Department of Botany, Kakatiya University,
Warangal, Telangana, India
CONTENTS

E thnobotany of India: Volume 2: Western Ghats and

West Coast of Peninsular India is the second of a five-
volume set. This series of volumes on the ethnobotany of
different regions of India brings together important available
ethnobotanical knowledge in one place. India is one of the most
important regions of the old world and has some of the very
ancient and culturally rich and diverse knowledge systems. The
expert authors have been selected to summarize information on
the various aspects of ethnobotany of India, such as ethnoecology,
traditional agriculture, cognitive ethnobotany, material sources,
traditional pharmacognosy, ethnoconservation strategies,
bioprospection of ethnodirected knowledge, and documentation
and protection of ethnobotanical knowledge.
Volume 1 focuses on Eastern Ghats and the adjacent Deccan
region of Peninsular India. Ethnobotany of India: Volume 2:
Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India
focuses on a region of very great sociocultural history of not only
India but also of the entire Indian Ocean region.
Topics in this volume include:
• ethnic diversity and the influence of trade, religion, and policy
on ethnic diversity and ethnobotany of the Western Peninsular
India
• European contributions to the ethnobotany during 16th to 18th
centuries
• human affinities with plants in the worldviews of indigenous
communities
• ethnobotanicals of Western Ghats
• ethnoveterinary medicinal plants of Western Ghats
• medicinal flora and related traditional knowledge
• plant-based ethnic knowledge of food and nutrition
• useful plants of Western Ghats
• an ethnobased biodiversity conservation strategy
This volume of valuable information on various aspects of the
ethnobotany of India may help lead to the discovery of new drugs,
nutraceuticals, and other useful products for the benefit of
mankind. The book also provides information that will valuable
for the conservation and sustainable utilization of the plant
resources.
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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 Policy on Ethnic Diversity and
Ethnobotany of the Western Peninsular India
K. V. Krishnamurthy
4. European Contributions to the Ethnobotany of Western Peninsular
India during the 16th to 18th 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. Ravikumar, 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. Prakash, P. Unnikrishnan, and G. Hariramamurthi
9. Plant-Based Ethnic Knowledge of 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 Ethnobased Biodiversity
Conservation Strategy
K. V. Krishnamurthy and S. John Adams
13. Ethnobryology of India
Afroz Alam
Index

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Ethnobotany of India ABOUT THE EDITORS

Volume: 2
Western Ghats and West Coast
of Peninsular India
Ethnobotany of India: 5 volumes:
• Volume 1: Eastern Ghats and Deccan
• Volume 2: Western Ghats and West Coast of Peninsular India
Other volumes to come in the series:
• Indo-Gangetic Plains and Central India
• Northern and Eastern Himalayas and Andamans
• Western and Central Himalayas
Approx. 300 pages with index.
ISBN hard: 978-1-77188-404-4. Cat# N11692.
ISBN ebook: 978-1-77188-405-1.
$149.95 US | £95.00 hardback.
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T. Pullaiah, PhD, is a former Professor at the Department of Botany at Sri
Krishnadevaraya University in Andhra Pradesh, India, where he has taught for more
than 35 years. He has held several positions at the university, including Dean, Faculty
of Biosciences, Head of the Department of Botany, Head of the Department of
Biotechnology, and Member, Academic Senate. He was President of the Indian
Botanical Society (2014), President of the Indian Association for Angiosperm
Taxonomy (2013), and Fellow of the Andhra Pradesh Akademi of Sciences. He was
awarded the Panchanan Maheswari Gold Medal, the Dr. G. Panigrahi Memorial
Lecture Award of the Indian Botanical Society, the Prof. Y. D. Tyagi Gold Medal of the
Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy, and a Best Teacher Award from
Government of Andhra Pradesh. He has authored 45 books, edited 15 books, and
published over 300 research papers, including reviews and book chapters. His books
include Flora of Eastern Ghats (4 volumes), Flora of Andhra Pradesh (5 volumes),
Flora of Telangana (3 volumes), Encyclopedia of World Medicinal Plants (5
volumes), and Encyclopedia of Herbal Antioxidants (3 volumes). He was also a
member of Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN). Professor Pullaiah received his PhD from Andhra University,
India, attended Moscow State University, Russia, and worked as postdoctoral Fellow
during 1976-78.
K. V. Krishnamurthy, PhD, is a former Professor and Head of Department, Plant
Sciences at Bharathidasan University in Tiruchirappalli, India, and is at present an
adjunct faculty at the Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Bangalore. He
obtained his PhD degree from Madras University, India, and has taught many
undergraduate, postgraduate, MPhil, and PhD students. He has over 48 years of
teaching and research experience, and his major research areas include plant
morphology and morphogenesis, biodiversity, floristic and reproductive ecology, and
cytochemistry. He has published more than 170 research papers and 21 books,
operated 16 major research projects funded by various agencies, and guided 32 PhD
and more than 50 MPhil scholars. His important books include Methods in Cell Wall
Cytochemistry (CRC Press, USA), Textbook of Biodiversity (Science Publishers,
USA), and From Flower to Fruit (Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi). One of his
important research projects pertains to a detailed study of Shervaroys, which form a
major hill region in the southern Eastern Ghats, and seven of his PhD scholars have
done research work on various aspects of Eastern Ghats. He has won several awards
and honors that include the Hira Lal Chakravarthy Award (1984) from the Indian
Science Congress; Fulbright Visiting Professorship at the University of Colorado, USA
(1993); Best Environmental Scientist Award of Tamil Nadu state (1998); the V. V.
Sivarajan Award of the Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (1998); and the
Prof. V. Puri Award from the Indian Botanical Society (2006). He is a fellow of the
Linnaean Society, London; National Academy of Sciences, India; and Indian
Association of Angiosperm Taxonomy.
Bir Bahadur, PhD, was Chairman and Head of the Department, and Dean of the
Faculty of Science at Kakatiya University in Warangal, India, and has also taught at
Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. During his long academic career, he was
honored with the Best Teacher Award by Andhra Pradesh State Government for
mentoring thousands of graduates and postgraduate students, most of whom went on
to occupy high positions at various universities and research organizations in India
and abroad. Dr. Bahadur has been the recipient of many awards and honors,
including the Prof. Vishwambhar Puri Award, the Gold Medal from the Indian
Botanical Society for his original research contributions in various aspects of plant
sciences, Eminent Botanist of India, the Bharath Jyoti Award for his sustained
academic and research career at New Delhi, and many others. Long active in his field,
he is a fellow or member of over dozen professional bodies in India and abroad,
including Fellow of the Linnean Society, (London); Chartered Biologist Fellow of the
Institute of Biology, (London); Member of the New York Academy of Sciences;
Honorable Fellow of Birmingham University (UK); and Board Member Sri Biotech
Laboratories India LTD, Hyderabad, India, for the last seven years.
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