{"product_id":"shifting-ground-mahesh-rangarajan-9780198098959","title":"Shifting Ground: People, Mobility and Animals in India's Envrionmental Histories","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eShifting Ground\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mahesh Rangarajan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198098952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198098959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.10d","brand":"Mahesh Rangarajan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48437836120319,"sku":"9780198098959","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f99bd03-ddf7-4f2d-ab3c-f168b72f2688.jpg?v=1777167102","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shifting-ground-mahesh-rangarajan-9780198098959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}