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The gigantic work is compiled by a pioneer naturalist of his time. This is the must authentic, comprehensive and valuable work on the economic products of India and its adjacent countries including sri lanka, nepal, burma, bhutan, tibet, pakistan and bangladesh. This entire work contains more than 20,000 entries-more than have ever before been published in a comparable work of this magnititude. These entries were prepared and verified by more than 180 distinguished scholars of their respective fields. Botanists, agricultralists, zoologists, and geologists etc for accuracy. The alphabetical arrangement of the dictionary is based upon the scientific names of the animals, plants and minerals and deals with complete utlization of each one of them. The index contains european as well as vernacular names such as English, sanskrit, arabic, persian, hindi, urdu, bengali, malayalam, tamil and burmese etc, and covers with over 30, 000 words. The dictionary is the most useful work of reference and serves as nucleus of an extended and systematic enquiry into the productive resources of india. Index volume 22 14 cm. ISBN 81-7020-349-X, Pages 5500
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