India is a vast country with a variety of topography, climates, vegetation and people. Indigenous people of India live diligently connected with nature and predominantly depend on it for their persistence. The study of plants for food and herbal medicine is an old discipline that has been revitalized by researchers in fresh contexts under the study of ethnobotany. The indigenous community is essentially associated with various components of natural environment and develop their nature based traditional knowledge system for treatment of various ailments across the globe.  The local community of handpicked area also think themselves as the link of this environment in these mythical association. This book tells the story of on-going relationship of plant and human, use of traditional natural remedies and healing practices with the conservation of indigenous medicinal knowledge and the use of biocultural diversity in local ethnic people of one small rural community located in District Fatehpur of U.P., India. 
Various chapters of the book include: Introduction; Hand Picked Area; Edible Plants of Fatehpur; Ethnomedicinal Importance of Weed Plants; Useful Climbers; Medicinal Importance of Underground Plant Parts;  Ethnomedicinal shrubs of the Area; Notable Ethnomedicinal Trees; Plants Associated with Domestic Rituals, Ceremonies and Festivals; Ethno-Medicinal Significance of Sacred Plants; Plants used as Fumitories, Masticatories, Beverages; Ethno-cosmetics; Plants Useful in Domestic Items; Ethnoveterinary Medicines; Gums and Resin Yielding Plants; Dye Yielding Medicinal Plants; Common Poisonous Plants; and,  Urbanization and Architectural Plants. This book will be of enormous interest and use to the students, teachers, researchers and scientists and other people interested in ethnobotany.