Historicity

This paper focuses on India’s import of fruits from Central Asia and Iran during the medieval period. India produced a large variety of tropical and sub-tropical fruits in the period under discussion. However, the ecological inability to produce fruits of

• Cultivation
• Central Asian
• Iranian Fruits

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