Nature, culture, imperialism: essays on the environmental history of South Asia/ (Record no. 198004)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780195640755 |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.700954 |
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| Title | Nature, culture, imperialism: essays on the environmental history of South Asia/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1996. |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Delhi: |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xi, 376 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps ; |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
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| Title | (Oxford India paperbacks) |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: themes and issues in the environmental history of South Asia / David Arnold, Ramachandra Guha --<br/>Forests, pastoralists and agrarian society in Mughal India / Chetan Singh --<br/>Pastoralists in a colonial world / Neeladri Bhattacharya --<br/>Whose trees?: forest practices and local communities in Andhra, 1600-1922 / Atluri Murali --<br/>British attitudes towards shifting cultivation in colonial south India: a case study of South Canara district, 1800-1920 / Jacques Pouchepadass --<br/>Maps as markers of ecological change: a case study of the Nilgiri Hills of southern India / R. Prabhakar, Madhav Gadgil --<br/>Small-dam systems of the Sahyadris / David Hardiman --<br/>Models of the hydraulic environments: colonial irrigation, state power and community in the Indus Basin / David Gilmartin --<br/>The environmental costs of irrigation in British India: waterlogging, salinity and malaria / Elizabeth Whitcombe --<br/>Inland waters and freshwater fisheries: some issues of control, access and conservaition in colonial India / Peter Reeves --<br/>The conquest of smoke: legislation and pollution in colonial Calcutta / M.R. Anderson --<br/>The resurgence of community forest management in the jungle mahals of west Bengal / Mark Poffenberger. |
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| Keyword | South Asia |
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| Keyword | Ecology |
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| Personal name | Arnold, David, ed. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Guha, Ramachandra, ed. |
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| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 24/11/2020 | 396.00 | 363.700954 ARN/N | 49578 | 24/11/2020 | General Books |