Editing Pearl millet (section)

===India===
[[India]] is the largest producer of pearl millet. India began growing pearl millet between 1500 and 1100 BCE.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/reader/download/180/180-30-76304-1-10-20161130.pdf|title=The origin and dispersal of millet cultivation in India|last=Singh|first=Purushottam|date=1996|access-date=October 9, 2017}}</ref> It is currently unknown how it made its way to India,<ref name=":0" /> but it likely arrived originally from across Africa, and via the Red Sea during Indus Valley Trade networks.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haaland |first=Randi |date=2012-06-20 |title=Crops and Culture: Dispersal of African Millets to the Indian Subcontinent and its Cultural Consequences |url=https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/DSAJ/article/view/6354 |journal=Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology |volume=5 |pages=1–30 |doi=10.3126/dsaj.v5i0.6354 |issn=1994-2672|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="auto"/> Rajasthan is the highest-producing state in India. The first hybrid of pearl millet developed in India in 1965 is called the HB1.

Sajje is the local name of the pearl millet in [[Karnataka]] and is mostly grown in the semiarid districts of North Karnataka. Sajje is milled and used for making flatbread called '[[commons:File:Sajja_Rotte.jpg|sajje rotti]]' and is eaten with yennegai (stuffed [[brinjal]]) and [[yogurt]].

''Kambu'' is the Tamil name of pearl millet and is a common food across the [[Indian state]] of Tamil Nadu. It is the second important food for Tamil people consumed predominantly in the hot humid summer months from February through May every year. It is made into a [[gruel]] and consumed along with [[buttermilk]] or consumed as [[Dosa (food)|dosa]] or [[Idli|idly]].

Pearl millet is called ''bajra'' in [[Northern India]]n states. There was a time when pearl millets along with [[finger millet]]s and [[sorghum]] were the staple food crops in these states but it reduced to a mere cattle fodder crop after the [[Green Revolution]] in the 1960s.