Author: David John Arnold

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0295800941

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.