“…However, in South Asia, especially India and Sri Lanka, Bonnefille et al (1999), Anupama et al (2000), Barboni and Bonnefille (2001) have conducted studies to address the modern pollen deposition pattern in tropical evergreen and deciduous forests. From the Indian context, several studies have also been conducted to address the problem, for example, from the foothills of the Himalaya (Sharma 1985;Gupta & Yadav 1992;Chauhan & Sharma 1993;Quamar and Srivastava, 2013;Ranhotra andBhattacharayya, 2013), Kashmir (Vishnu-Mittre 1966;Vishnu-Mittre & Sharma 1966, Vishnu-Mittre & Robert 1971, Ladakh (Bhattacharyya 1989a), Himachal Pradesh (Sharma 1973;Bhattacharayya 1989bBhattacharayya , 1989cBera & Gupta 1990), tropical deciduous scrub vegetation in Rajasthan desert (Singh et al 1973), eastern Madhya Pradesh (Chauhan 1994(Chauhan , 2008Quamar & Chauhan 2007), southwestern Madhya Pradesh (Quamar & Chauhan 2010, 2011a, 2011bChauhan & Quamar 2012a, Chhattisgarh (Quamar & Bera 2013a, 2013c, Silent Valley, south India (Gupta & Bera 1996), Tamil Nadu (Bera & Gupta 1992), Uttar Pradesh (Sharma et al 2007;Trivedi & Chauhan 2011)), northeast India (Gupta & Sharma 1985;Bera & Gupta 1992;Bera 2000;Basumatary & Bera 2007Dixit & Bera 2011, 2013…”