relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/6817/
title: Soils of India: historical perspective, classification and recent advances
creator: Bhattacharyya, T
creator: Pal, D K
creator: Mandal, C
creator: Chandran, P
creator: Ray, S K
creator: Sarkar, D
creator: Velmourougane, K
creator: Srivastava, A
creator: Sidhu, G S
creator: Singh, R S
creator: Sahoo, A K
creator: Dutta, D
creator: Nair, K M
creator: Srivastava, R 
creator: Tiwary, P
creator: Nagar, A P
creator: Nimkhedkar, S S
subject: Soil Science
description: Derived from a wide range of rocks and minerals, a  large variety of soils occur in the Indian subcontinent.  Soil-forming factors like climate, vegetation and  topography acting for varying periods on a range of  rock formations and parent materials, have given rise  to different kinds of soil. The National Bureau of Soil  Survey and Land Use Planning, Nagpur has developed  a database on soils with field and laboratory studies  over the last 30 years. This has generated maps and  soil information at different scales, showing area and  distribution of various soil groups in different agroecological  subregions. The 1 : 250,000 scale map shows  a threshold soil variation index of 4–5 and 10–25 soil  families per m ha for alluvial plains and black soil  regions respectively. Progress in basic and fundamental  research in Indian soils has been reviewed in terms  of soils, their formation related to climate, relief,  organisms, parent materials and time.
publisher: Indian Academy of Sciences
date: 2013
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/6817/1/CurrentSc_104_10_1308-1323_2013.pdf
identifier:   Bhattacharyya, T and Pal, D K and Mandal, C and Chandran, P and Ray, S K and Sarkar, D and Velmourougane, K and Srivastava, A and Sidhu, G S and Singh, R S and Sahoo, A K and Dutta, D and Nair, K M and Srivastava, R  and Tiwary, P and Nagar, A P and Nimkhedkar, S S  (2013) Soils of India: historical perspective, classification and recent advances.  Current Science, 104 (10).  pp. 1308-1323.  ISSN 0011-3891     
relation: http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/104/10/1308.pdf