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Shifting ground : people, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history / edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--India--History.
- Human ecology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--India.
- Nature.
- Environmental conditions.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- History.
- India--Environmental conditions.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 310 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- What do people mean when they refer to this region as 'wild'? How do varying accounts of the same physical landscape differ areas of interest and emphasis and relative to external evidence about that same landscape? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: People, Animals, and Mobility in India's Environmental History / Mahesh Rangarajan Rangarajan, Mahesh, K. Sivaramakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, K. 1
- 2 Conceiving Ecology and Stopping the Clock: Narratives of Balance, Loss, and Degradation / Kathleen D. Morrison Morrison, Kathleen D. 39
- 3 From Eminence to Near Extinction: The Journey of the Greater One-Horned Rhino / Shibani Bose Bose, Shibani 65
- 4 Lions, Cheetahs, and Others in the Mughal Landscape / DivyaBhanusinh 88
- 5 Environmental Status and Wild Boars in Princely India / Julie E. Hughes Hughes, Julie E. 109
- 6 The Imperial Ambition of Science and Its Discontents: Animal Breeding in Nineteenth-Century / Brian P. Caton Caton, Brian P. 132
- 7 Making Room Inside Forests: Grazing and Agrarian Conflicts in Colonial Assam / Arupjyoti Saikia Saikia, Arupjyoti 155
- 8 Nature and Politics at the End of the Raj: Environmental Management and Political Legitimacy in Late Colonial India, 1919-47 / Daniel Klingensmith Klingensmith, Daniel 180
- 9 How to Be Hindu in the Himalayas: Conflicts over Animal Sacrifice in Uttarakhand / Radhika Govindrajan Govindrajan, Radhika 204
- 10 Logjam: Peasantization Caused Deforestation in Narmada Valley / Vikramaditya Thakur Thakur, Vikramaditya 228
- 11 The 'Tiger Crisis' and the Response: Reclaiming the Wilderness in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan / Ghazala Shahabuddin Shahabuddin, Ghazala 252.
- Notes:
- Contributed articles.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198098959
- 0198098952
- OCLC:
- 895112079
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