An Environmental History Of India
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Author |
: Michael H. Fisher |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2018-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107111622 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107111625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis An Environmental History of India by : Michael H. Fisher
This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Author |
: Velayutham Saravanan |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2020-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350130838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350130834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water and the Environmental History of Modern India by : Velayutham Saravanan
This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots.
Author |
: Velayutham Saravanan |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 221 |
Release |
: 2018-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789811080524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9811080526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India by : Velayutham Saravanan
This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods. The book elaborately discusses the colonial plunder of forest resources up to the introduction of the Forest Act (1878) and focuses on how colonial policy impacted on the Indian environment, opening the floodgates of forest resources plunder, primarily for timber and to establish coffee and tea plantations. The book argues that even after the advent of conservation initiatives, commercial exploitation of forests continued unabated while stringent restrictions were imposed on the tribals, curtailing their access to the jungles. It details how post-colonial governments and populist votebank politics followed the same commercial forest policy till the 1980s without any major reform, exploiting forest resources and also encroaching upon forest lands, pushing the self-sustainable tribal economy to crumble. The book offers a comprehensive account of India’s environmental history during both colonial and post-colonial times, contributing to the current environmental policy debates in Asia.
Author |
: Thomas R. Trautmann |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 389 |
Release |
: 2015-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226264530 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022626453X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elephants & Kings by : Thomas R. Trautmann
Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war. Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.
Author |
: Madhav Gadgil |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1993-03-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520082966 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520082960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Fissured Land by : Madhav Gadgil
"A masterful study. . . . It does for ecological history what the writings of Marx and Engels did for the study of class relations and social production."—Michael Adas, Rutgers University
Author |
: Sajal Nag |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2017-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351986403 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351986406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Playing with Nature by : Sajal Nag
North East India is called nature’s gift to India. It is mountainous, thickly forested, nourished by massive rainfall, has massive rivers, has a diverse wildlife, inhabited a number of forest dwellers called tribes who cherished environmentalist ethos. The region has been experiencing environmental depletion which was a result of colonial policies, exploitation of its ecological and mineral resources, large scale trans-border immigration and settlement of people, establishment of the plantation industry through deforestation and the dependence of the dairy industry on grazing and other factors. This books depicts the precariousness of the environmental situation and traces the history and politics of such degeneration with a view to raise the consciousness of the people of the region towards their environment and save it from further aggravation.
Author |
: Mahesh Rangarajan |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:2011311437 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis India's Environmental History by : Mahesh Rangarajan
Author |
: Michael Fisher |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2015-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857729767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857729764 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Short History of the Mughal Empire by : Michael Fisher
The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, preeminence and decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interests conflicted. The empire's significance continues to be controversial among scholars and politicians with fresh and exciting new insights, theories and interpretations being put forward in recent years. This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire.
Author |
: Ranjan Chakrabarti |
Publisher |
: Sage Publications Pvt. Limited |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9353883148 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789353883140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Themes in Environmental History of India by : Ranjan Chakrabarti
A first of its kind in India, the book addresses the fundamental questions of environmental concern and enquires into the complex patterns of human-nature interaction within the discipline of environmental history in India. This book delves into history to examine a number of critical themes, such as waterbodies and water, forests, land use, wildlife and the issue of the history of climate in India. It focuses on the methodological and historiographical aspects of environmental history and raises new questions to open up new windows leading to fresh research questions. The book argues that environmental history would serve as an important gateway to the history of the human-nature relationship, for example, exploring the role of water history would help in understanding the present context of water crisis in Indian cities. Critical Themes in Environmental History of India is a powerful reminder of the fact that in the context of Indian history it is now necessary to listen to the voice of nature more carefully.
Author |
: Velayutham Saravanan |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2020-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781350130845 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1350130842 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Water and the Environmental History of Modern India by : Velayutham Saravanan
This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots.