Suryanarayan, V.

Ethnic reconciliation and national building In Sri Lanka/ V. Suryanarayan and Sukumar Nambiar - Chennai: TR Publication, 2010. - 218p. 23cm.


INTRODUCTION BY DEEPAK KUMAR, VINITA DAMODARAN AND ROHAN D'SOUZA ;

PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATIONS AND EMPIRE ;
Chapter 1. The Wild Andamans: Island Imageries and Colonial Encounter by Aparna Vaidik ;
Chapter 2. Walter Sherwill and the Visual Representation of Colonial Authority in Mid-nineteenth Century India by Daniel Rycroft ;


PART II. MAKING NATURAL RESOURCES FOR EMPIRE ;
Chapter 3. Imperial Design: The Royal Indian Engineering College and Public Works in Colonial India by Christopher V. Hill ;
Chapter 4. Redeeming Wood by Destroying the Forest: Shola, Plantations and Colonial Conservancy on the Nilgiris in the Nineteenth Century by Deborah Sutton ;
Chapter 5. Making Garden, Erasing Jungle: The Tea Enterprise in Colonial Assam by Jayeeta Sharma ;


PART III. IMPACTS AND NEGOTIATIONS: THE EMPIRE'S ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS ;
Chapter 6. Taming Liquid Gold' and Dam Technology: A Study of the Godavari Anicut by B. Eswara Rao ;
Chapter 7. Flood Control in North Bihar: An Environmental History from the 'Ground-Level' (1850-1954) by Praveen Singh ;


PART IV. CULTURES RESHAPE EMPIRE ;
Chapter 8. The Environmental and Cultural Legacy of Colonial Hydraulic Projects in Two South Indian Deltas by Peter L. Schmitthenner ;
Chapter 9. Collaboration and Conflict: Environmental Legacies and the Ho of Kolhan (1700 - 1918) by Asoka Kumar Sen ;


PART V.THE LONG ECOLOGICAL SHADOWS OF EMPIRE ;
Chapter 10. Forests at the Edge of Empire: The Case of Nepal by D. G. Donovan ;
Chapter 11. Forest Policy and Ecological Change in Hyderabad State (1867-1948) by S. Abdul Thaha ;

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