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This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520082960)
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xEcologist Madhav Gadgil and historian Ramachandra Guha offer fresh perspectives both on the ecological history of India and on theoretical issues of interest to environmental historians regardless of geographical specialization.
Juxtaposing data from India with the ecological literature on lifestyles as diverse as those of modern Americans and Amazonian Indians, the authors analyze the social conflicts that have emerged over environmental exploitation and explore the impact of changing patterns of resource use on human societies. They present a socio-ecological analysis of the modes of resource use introduced to India by the British, and explore popular resistance to state environmental policies in both the colonial and post-colonial periods.
Author: Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha
ISBN-10: 0520082966
ISBN-13: 9780520082960
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/1993
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.47w x 0.77d
Juxtaposing data from India with the ecological literature on lifestyles as diverse as those of modern Americans and Amazonian Indians, the authors analyze the social conflicts that have emerged over environmental exploitation and explore the impact of changing patterns of resource use on human societies. They present a socio-ecological analysis of the modes of resource use introduced to India by the British, and explore popular resistance to state environmental policies in both the colonial and post-colonial periods.
Author: Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha
ISBN-10: 0520082966
ISBN-13: 9780520082960
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/1993
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.47w x 0.77d
By Madhav Gadgil
xMadhav Gadgil is Professor at the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. Ramachandra Guha is a Professorial Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi and is the author of The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalayas (California, 1989).
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