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Nature, culture, imperialism: essays on the environmental history of South Asia/ edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha

Contributor(s): Arnold, David, ed | Guha, Ramachandra, edSeries: (Oxford India paperbacks)Publication details: Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996Description: xi, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195640755Subject(s): South Asia | EcologyDDC classification: 363.700954

Contents:

Introduction: themes and issues in the environmental history of South Asia / David Arnold, Ramachandra Guha -- Forests, pastoralists and agrarian society in Mughal India / Chetan Singh -- Pastoralists in a colonial world / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- Whose trees?: forest practices and local communities in Andhra, 1600-1922 / Atluri Murali -- British attitudes towards shifting cultivation in colonial south India: a case study of South Canara district, 1800-1920 / Jacques Pouchepadass -- Maps as markers of ecological change: a case study of the Nilgiri Hills of southern India / R. Prabhakar, Madhav Gadgil -- Small-dam systems of the Sahyadris / David Hardiman -- Models of the hydraulic environments: colonial irrigation, state power and community in the Indus Basin / David Gilmartin -- The environmental costs of irrigation in British India: waterlogging, salinity and malaria / Elizabeth Whitcombe -- Inland waters and freshwater fisheries: some issues of control, access and conservaition in colonial India / Peter Reeves -- The conquest of smoke: legislation and pollution in colonial Calcutta / M.R. Anderson -- The resurgence of community forest management in the jungle mahals of west Bengal / Mark Poffenberger.

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Introduction: themes and issues in the environmental history of South Asia / David Arnold, Ramachandra Guha --
Forests, pastoralists and agrarian society in Mughal India / Chetan Singh --
Pastoralists in a colonial world / Neeladri Bhattacharya --
Whose trees?: forest practices and local communities in Andhra, 1600-1922 / Atluri Murali --
British attitudes towards shifting cultivation in colonial south India: a case study of South Canara district, 1800-1920 / Jacques Pouchepadass --
Maps as markers of ecological change: a case study of the Nilgiri Hills of southern India / R. Prabhakar, Madhav Gadgil --
Small-dam systems of the Sahyadris / David Hardiman --
Models of the hydraulic environments: colonial irrigation, state power and community in the Indus Basin / David Gilmartin --
The environmental costs of irrigation in British India: waterlogging, salinity and malaria / Elizabeth Whitcombe --
Inland waters and freshwater fisheries: some issues of control, access and conservaition in colonial India / Peter Reeves --
The conquest of smoke: legislation and pollution in colonial Calcutta / M.R. Anderson --
The resurgence of community forest management in the jungle mahals of west Bengal / Mark Poffenberger.

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