Indian agriculture is more than 10000 years old. History of Indian animal husbandry is older than the history of cropping. Indian literature is a rich repository of knowledge relating to all aspects of animal husbandry. In ancient India animal husbandry was flourishing like anything and was the basis of people's livelihoods, socioeconomic status and happiness. Nowadays when animal husbandry is being visualized as the most realistic and safe method to reduce poverty of rural India, importance of the knowledge in this field can be readily realized. As a sub-sector of the agricultural economy, livestock play an important role in the development process providing draught and traction power for agriculture and rural transport, manure and fuel, raw materials for the manufacturing sector, high protein, and employment opportunities. This book by eminent Indian scholars attempts to document and analyse copious amount of knowledge relating to all aspects of animal husbandry. The book proves to be vital for the development of animal husbandry not only in India but in all geographical settings of the world.

The spray droplets were deposited over a rotating copper substrate to achieve a disc shape preform. The thickness uniformity of the preform was found to depend on the preform distance from the nozzle, preform offset distance from the axis of the atomizer and inclination of the preform from the horizontal plane. Mathematical equations were developed to represent the thickness variation of the preform with aforementioned parameters. The porosity, hardness, strength, wear and microstructural studies of the Al-Si-Pb spray deposited alloys were conducted for different lead content, top to bottom distance of the deposit and the distance from centre to periphery of the deposit. Overspray and worn debris particles were also analyzed. Particles/droplets of two different types were observed to deposit on the substrate. First type particles were aluminum rich and second type were lead rich.