Urban development and environmental history in modern South Asia / edited by Ian Talbot and Amit Ranjan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Talbot, Ian, editor.

Ranjan, Amit (Researcher on South Asia), editor.

Series:

Routledge advances in South Asian studies.

Routledge advances in South Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Environmental policy--South Asia--History.

Environmental policy.

Human ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"This book provides a pioneering study of the historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia. The book provides a multi-disciplinary analysis examining the environmental history of the city and bringing together contributions from environmental experts and practitioners as well as academics. Focusing on case studies stretching from the Maldives and Sri Lanka to the Indian subcontinent, the chapters trace linkages between the contemporary and earlier patterns of urban expansion and their environmental effects and consider lessons that can be drawn with respect to preventing future environmental degradation and mitigating the effects of climate change. An important contribution to the field, this book studies the contemporary environmental issues arising from rapid South Asian urbanization. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian Studies, world history and environmental history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART 1 Urban Pasts, Contemporary Legacies

1 Partition, the Environment, and the Early Post-Independence Development of Lahore

2 Written in Stone: Political Geologies of Small-Town India

3 A Shift From the "Devotional" to the "Natural" in Nineteenth-Century Lahore's Art Education

4 Building With a Conscience? Heritage, Design and Urban Space in Bombay

PART 2 The City and River Management

5 The Hooghly River and the Incomplete Mastery of the Natural World in British Colonial India

6 Political Economy of Dams in Colonial and Early Postcolonial India

7 Locating the Riparian Commons in Eastern South Asia: A Translocal Perspective

PART 3 Urban Growth in a Fragile Environment

8 Evolving Islandscapes in a Changing Climate: Male' City, Maldives

9 Analysing Human-Environment Coexistence: Urban Development and the Colombo Wetland Complex

10 Vanishing Rains: Deforestation, Declining Rainfall, and Desiccation in North East India With Special Reference to Cherrapunji, the "Rainiest Spot on the Globe

11 Reconstructing Thimphu: Balancing Tradition and Transition in Bhutan

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-330094-4

1-003-30094-4

1-000-77980-7

9781003300946

OCLC:

1319082775