%C New Delhi, India %A Y L Nene %P 143-153 %D 2005 %L icrisat5586 %X Pulses, the food legmes, have been grown by fanners since millennia, and these have contributed in providing nutritionally balanced food to the people of India. While pigeonpea, blackgram, greengram, lablab bean, moth bean %T Historical perspectives of grain legumes in food security and sustainable agriculture with focus on South Asia