Nature and culture and imperialism: essays on the environmental history of South Asia/ edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xi, 376 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195640755Subject(s): Ecology -- South AsiaDDC classification: 325.32Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section | 325.32 ARN/N (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P03098 |
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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