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The British Empire and the natural world : environmental encounters in South Asia
Title
The British Empire and the natural world : environmental encounters in South Asia / edited by Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran, and Rohan D'Souza.
ISBN
9780198069706
0198069707
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xiv, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Summary
Contributed articles culled from a conference held at New Delhi in December 2002 and International Conference on the Forest and Environmental History of the British Empire and Commonwealth, held at University of Sussex during 19-21 March 2003.
Variant and related titles
Environmental encounters in South Asia
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 17, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Pt. I. Environmental imaginations and empire. The wild Andamans : island imageries and colonial encounter / Aparna Vaidik
Representing colonial authority : the visual environment of Walter Sherwill in 1851 / Daniel Rycroft
pt. II. Making natural resources for the empire. Imperial design : the Royal Indian Engineering College and public works in colonial India / Christopher V. Hill
Redeeming wood by destroying the forest : Shola, plantations, and colonial conservancy on the Nilgiris in the nineteenth century / Deborah Sutton
Making garden, erasing jungle : the tea enterprise in colonial Assam / Jayeeta Sharma
pt. III. Impacts and negotiations : the empire's ecological footprints. Taming 'liquid gold' and dam technology : a study of the Godavari Anicut / B. Eswara Rao
Flood control for North Bihar : an environmental history from the 'ground-level' (1850-1954) / Praveen Singh
pt. IV. Cultures reshape the empire. Colonial hydraulic projects in South India : environmental and cultural legacy / Peter L. Schmitthenner
Collaboration and conflict : environmental legacies and the Ho of Kolhan (1700-1918) / Asoka Kumar Sen
pt. V. The long ecological shadows of the empire. Forests at the edge of empire : the case of Nepal / D.G. Donovan
Forest policy and ecological change : the Hyderabad State (1867-1948) / S. Abdul Thaha.
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