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100			_aKumar, Deepak
245		4	_aThe British empire and the natural world: Environmental encounters in south Asia/ _cDeepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza
260			_aNew Delhi: _bOxford University Press, _c2011.
300			_a280p.
505			_a 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 ; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
700			_aDamodaran, Vinita
700			_aRohan, D'Souza
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