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Author: Michael H. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1107111625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Author: Michael H. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1108679811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh contain one-fifth of humanity, are home to many biodiversity hotspots, and are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By surveying their environmental history, we can gain major insights into the causes and implications of the Indian subcontinent's current conditions. This accessible new survey begins roughly 100 million years ago, when continental drift moved India from the South Pole and across the Indian Ocean, forming the Himalayan Mountains and creating monsoons. Coverage continues to the twenty-first century, taking readers beyond independence from colonial rule. The new nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have produced rising populations and have stretched natural resources, even as they have become increasingly engaged with climate change. To understand the region's current and future pressing issues, Michael H. Fisher argues that we must engage with the long and complex history of interactions among its people, land, climate, flora, and fauna.
Author: Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-03-07
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9811080526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Mahesh Rangarajan
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Published: 2012
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1350130834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Shepard Krech
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780393321005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKrech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Madhav Gadgil
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-03-31
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780520082960
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Dr Nandini Sinha Kapur
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 2011-01-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780198070009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reader provides a multilayered analysis of different aspects of history, politics, economy and its interface with environment and ecology in early India. It focuses on forests, deforestation, tribes and states; land grants, settlements, and rural landscape; water resources, irrigation, and agricultural expansion; ecology in literature and religion; and pastoralism, ecology, and society.
Author: Sajal Nag
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1351986406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorth 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:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788178245003
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