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Nature, culture, imperialism :

0195640756

9780195640755

Nature, culture, imperialism :

[Book]

essays on the environmental history of South Asia /

edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha.

[Oxford India pbk. ed.].

Delhi :

Oxford University Press,

1996.

xi, 376 pages :

illustrations, maps ;

22 cm.

Oxford India paperbacks

Studies in social ecology and environmental history

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Papers presented at the Conference on South Asia's Changing Environment, held at Lake Como during 16-20 March 1992; chiefly in Indian context.

15.75 history of Asia.

43.01 history of environmental science.

Ecology.

Milieu.

Politique de l'environnement-- Asie du Sud.

India, Environmental conditions, History.

South Asia, Environmental conditions, History.

India.

South Asia.

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