Includes glossary, appendices, bibliographical references and index.

Soils and human society / J. C. Katyal -- The soil: a natural resource/ Tapas Bhattacharya & D. K. Pal -- Soil genesis and classification/ S. K. Singh & P. Chandran -- Soil survey for agricultural land use planning/ Jagdish Prasad & Rajeev Srivastava -- Remote sensing, GIS and GPS in soil resource studies/ Rabi H. Sahoo -- Soil physical properties/ V. K. Phogat, V. S. Tomar and Rita Dahiya -- Soil water and its management/ Anil Kumar Singh & S. k. Chaudhari -- Soil erosion and conservation/ S. S. Kukal & M. J. Singh -- Conservation agriculture / Ranjan Bhattacharyya and I. P. Abrol -- Soil mineralogy and chemistry/ S. C. Datta -- Soil acidity and liming/ A. K. Sarkar -- Soil salinity and sodicity/ O. P. Choudhary and V. K. Kharche -- Soil organic matter/ P. Chandrasekhar Rao & G. Padmaja -- Assessment and management of soil carbon sequestration/ Rattan Lal -- Manures, Biofertilizers and Fertilizer/ D. R. Biswas & A. K. Ghosh -- Soil ecology and biochemistry/ K. P. Raverkar and Dwipendra Thakuria -- Mineral nutrition of plants/ R. K. Rattan -- Soil and fertilizer nitrogen/ Yadvinder Singh and Bijay Singh -- Soil and fertilizer phosphorus and potassium/ Kauhik Majumdar & Saroj Kumar Sanyal -- Secondary nutrients in soils and their management/ S. P. Datta & M. C. Meena -- Soil fertility: evaluation and management/ Bijay Singh & Yadvinder Singh -- Soil testing and fertilizer recommendations/ B. S. Dwivedi, Dhyan Singh & B. M. Sharma -- Soil quality and soil health/ K. L. Sharma & U. K. Mandal -- Trace elements in soil-plant-human continuum/ Arvind Shukla & Abhijit Pakhare -- Soil, water and air pollution/ H. Pathak, K. M. Manjaiah & Prem Dureja -- Nanotechnology in soil sciences/ J. C. Tarafdar & Tapan Adhikari.