ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how one might rework the concept of landesque capital to apply more broadly to agricultural production across time and space. It discusses landscape history in one region of interior southern India, now part of northern Karnataka. The capaciousness of the landscape concept as well as its now-ubiquitous deployment across geography, anthropology, archaeology, and environmental history has, however, led to its being used in diverse ways. If landscape is more than simply land, then we need to briefly consider just what it might be and how its long-term history figures in our understanding of production. Landscape refers to an inclusive spatial and temporal domain, both material and ideal, a constructed context constituted both by the structure and dynamic of the natural environment and by human action. Different forms of production were not only associated with specific kinds of landscape features but also had varied environmental effects.
