Nature, culture, imperialism : essays on the environmental history of South Asia /
by Arnold, David; Guha, Ramachandra.
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BookSeries: Studies in social ecology and environmental history. Publisher: Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: xi, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0195640756; 0195634284.Subject(s): South Asia -- Environmental conditions| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 325.320947 HYA Afghanistan under Soviet domination, 1964-83 / | 325.320947 HYA Afghanistan under Soviet domination, 1964-91 / | 325.320954 GOS Story of Islamic imperialism in India / | 325.320954 NAT Nature, culture, imperialism : | 325.34 STW Women, power, and politics / | 325.34109 ELB British imperialism in the nineteenth century / | 325.34109 ELB British imperialism in the nineteenth century / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Themes and Issues in the Environmental History of South Asia / David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha -- I. Forests, Pastoralists and Agrarian Society in Mughal India / Chetan Singh -- II. Pastoralists in a Colonial World / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- III. Whose Trees? Forest Practices and Local Communities in Andhra, 1600-1922 / Atluri Murali -- IV. British Attitudes Towards Shifting Cultivation in Colonial South India: A Case Study of South Canara District 1800-1920 / Jacques Pouchepadass -- V. Maps as Markers of Ecological Change: A Case Study of the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India / R. Prabhakar and Madhav Gadgil -- VI. Small-Dam Systems of the Sahyadris /David Hardiman -- VII. Models of the Hydraulic Environment: Colonial Irrigation, State Power and Community in the Indus Basin / David Gilmartin --VIII. The Environmental Costs of Irrigation in British India: Waterlogging, Salinity and Malaria / Elizabeth Whitcombe.
IX. Inland Waters and Freshwater Fisheries: Some Issues of Control, Access and Conservation in Colonial India / Peter Reeves -- X. The Conquest of Smoke: Legislation and Pollution in Colonial Calcutta / M.R. Anderson -- XI. The Resurgence of Community Forest Management in the Jungle Mahals of West Bengal / Mark Poffenberger.
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