The British Empire and the Natural World
Environmental Encounters in South Asia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 3 February 2011
- ISBN 9780198069706
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 224x147x24 mm
- Weight 492 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume provides multi-layered analysis of the impact of British rule on the subcontinental environment. It focuses on areas like imagination of environment; politics of natural resource management; irrigation and flood control projects; cultural negotiations; and forest and ecological changes.
MoreLong description:
This volume provides multi-layered analysis of the environmental impacts under the colonial rule. Presenting detailed case studies from across the Indian subcontinent, it discusses different aspects of Empire-environment encounters like imagination of environment; politics of natural resource management; irrigation and flood control projects; cultural negotiations; and forest and ecological changes. The essays explore the nature of global environmental
transformations in the nineteenth century, complex and varied inter-colonial exchanges, techniques and technologies, and the institutionalization of various environmental imaginings. The volume documents the shifts in recent environmental history of the subcontinent. Examining key debates on the subject, it also
underlines the need to revisit the role of British Empire as an apt conceptual template for the writing of global environmental history.
This book will be of considerable interest to teachers, students, and scholars of ecological and environmental history particularly those concerned with modern India and the British Empire.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza
Part I. Environmental Imaginations and Empire
The Wild Andamans: Island Imageries and Colonial Encounter by Aparna Vaidik
Walter Sherwill and the Visual Representation of Colonial Authority in Mid-nineteenth Century India by Daniel Rycroft
Part II. Making Natural Resources for Empire
Imperial Design: The Royal Indian Engineering College and Public Works in Colonial India by Christopher V. Hill
Redeeming Wood by Destroying the Forest: Shola, Plantations and Colonial Conservancy on the Nilgiris in the Nineteenth Century by Deborah Sutton
Making Garden, Erasing Jungle: The Tea Enterprise in Colonial Assam by Jayeeta Sharma
Part III. Impacts and Negotiations: The Empire's Ecological Footprints
Taming Liquid Gold' and Dam Technology: A Study of the Godavari Anicut by B. Eswara Rao
Flood Control in North Bihar: An Environmental History from the 'Ground-Level' (1850-1954) by Praveen Singh
Part IV. Cultures Reshape Empire
The Environmental and Cultural Legacy of Colonial Hydraulic Projects in Two South Indian Deltas by Peter L. Schmitthenner
Collaboration and Conflict: Environmental Legacies and the Ho of Kolhan (1700 - 1918) by Asoka Kumar Sen
Part V.The Long Ecological Shadows of Empire
Forests at the Edge of Empire: The Case of Nepal by D. G. Donovan
Forest Policy and Ecological Change in Hyderabad State (1867-1948) by S. Abdul Thaha
Notes on Contributors
