Kumar, Deepak (Editor)
Damodaran, Vinita (Editor)
D'Souza, Rohan (Editor)
Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2011
Language: English
Edition Details: Conference Publication.
Physical Details: xiv + 280 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
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.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Review Ross, Corey (2013) Review of "The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia". English Historical Review (p. 178).
Review Kumar, Prakash (2014) Review of "The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia". Agricultural History (pp. 465-467).
Review Bashford, Alison (2014) Review of "The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia". Victorian Studies (pp. 533-535).
Chapter Vaidik, Aparna (2011) The Wild Andamans: Island Imageries and Colonial Encounter. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 17).
Chapter Hill, Christopher V. (2011) Imperial Design: The Royal Indian Engineering College and Public Works in Colonial India. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 71).
Chapter Sutton, Deborah (2011) Redeeming Wood by Destroying the Forest: Shola, Plantations and Colonial Conservancy on the Nilgiris in the Nineteenth Century. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 86).
Chapter Rao, B. Eswara (2011) Taming Liquid Gold' and Dam Technology: A Study of the Godavari Anicut. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 145).
Chapter Schmitthenner, Peter L. (2011) The Environmental and Cultural Legacy of Colonial Hydraulic Projects in Two South Indian Deltas. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 181).
Chapter Sen, Asoka Kumar (2011) Collaboration and Conflict: Environmental Legacies and the Ho of Kolhan (1700--1918). In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 202).
Chapter Thaha, S. Abdul (2011) Forest Policy and Ecological Change in Hyderabad State (1867--1948). In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 262).
Chapter Rycroft, Daniel (2011) Walter Sherwill and the Visual Representation of Colonial Authority in Mid-nineteenth Century India. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 43).
Chapter Sharma, Jayeeta (2011) Making Garden, Erasing Jungle: The Tea Enterprise in Colonial Assam. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 119).
Chapter Singh, Praveen (2011) Flood Control in North Bihar: An Environmental History from the “Ground-Level” (1850--1954). In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 160).
Chapter Donovan, D. G. (2011) Forests at the Edge of Empire: The Case of Nepal. In: The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (p. 231).
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