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SHIFTING GROUND
PEOPLE, ANIMALS, AND MOBILITY IN INDIA'S ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY |
| By: |
Mahesh Rangarajan (Editor), Kalyanakrishnan A. Sivaramakrishnan (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£27.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198098952 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198098959 |
| Publisher: |
OUP INDIA |
| Pub. date: |
6 November, 2014 |
| Pages: |
308 |
| Description: |
Shifting Groun explores fresh critical questions about India's environmental past in terms of environmental issues and human intervention. Cutting across divides of prehistory and history and of ancient, medieval, colonial and independent India, this book makes us rethink our premises about ecology, polity and landscape in a land reshaped by human presence across millennia. Analyzing current environmental concerns regarding forests, pastures, wild anddomesticated animals this volume explores their interconnections with state making and political visions of the future. |
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Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction-those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders, farmers, townspeople), eras (colonial, post-colonial), and so on. The limitations of these sharp divides are brought to the forefront when there is a critical engagement with the region's contested environmental past. Shifting Ground brings together an array of essays that pose critical questions regarding India's environmental past and the way it has been approached by scholars. From debunking the idea of a primeval, pristine forest cover, to analysing the dynamics that shape human-animal relations, to examining the conflicts created by post-Independence projects of rural development and conservation-this volume touches upon the various aspects of environmental studies and juxtaposes them with social history, history of science and technology, and history of trade and culture.Drawing on original case studies the book not only explores the past, but also portrays how its traditions are often invoked to be deployed in contemporary conflicts-those that are often aggravated by the pressures on natural assets created by the recent prosperity and the vaulting aspirations of a rapidly expanding Indian middle class. |
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India |
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OUP India |
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Returnable |
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