Post Views: 1,788 Food history, especially in India, will be incomplete without the mention of millets. Millet is not a single grain but a group of small-seeded annual grasses belonging to the Poaceae family.  There is mention of millets in the Indian Sanskrit text Yajurveda’s verses- of foxtail millet (priyangava), proso millet (aanava), and Barnyard millet (shyaamaka). This indicates that millet culture and consumption have been prevalent since the Indian Bronze Age (3300 BC to 1200 BC). Until 50 years ago, millets were the major crops grown in India. But with the onset of the Green Revolution in the 1960s, the popularity of rice and wheat grew, and millets became…