I have gone through the paper but find nothing against what has been quoted by us: African Origin, early introduction into India and name Tamarindus derived from "Tamar Hindi". The authors mention about two opposite views: African Origin (Grollier, 1998) and Indian Origin (Poupon & Chouvin, 1983; Wunderlin, 1998), but themselves conclude (read last line of abstract: "However, if we take into account the paleontological and anthropological results, we can assume that T. indica has an African origin." I find this paper has nothing new or contradictory to our opinion in this thread. Any way thanks for copy of the paper.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Interested persons may try reading the following article. Especially > page no. 857, for quick glance. Hope this clears some querries about > the origin of this particular taxa in question. On the other hand, > monograph does talk a lot about usage of the plant but not much abt > the origin, but yes monograph is certainly very useful. > > The reference is being sent in good spirits and not to hamper the > cordial atmosphere of the group. > > Regards > Pankaj >
