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" Nature, culture, imperialism : "
edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha.
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873632
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Nature, culture, imperialism : : essays on the environmental history of South Asia /\ edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha.
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[Oxford India pbk. ed.].
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Delhi :: Oxford University Press,, 1996.
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Oxford India paperbacks
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Studies in social ecology and environmental history
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xi, 376 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 22 cm.
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0195640756
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: 9780195640755
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: themes and issues in the environmental history of South Asia / David Arnold, Ramachandra Guha -- Forests, pastoralists and agrarian society in Mughal India / Chetan Singh -- Pastoralists in a colonial world / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- Whose trees?: forest practices and local communities in Andhra, 1600-1922 / Atluri Murali -- British attitudes towards shifting cultivation in colonial south India: a case study of South Canara district, 1800-1920 / Jacques Pouchepadass -- Maps as markers of ecological change: a case study of the Nilgiri Hills of southern India / R. Prabhakar, Madhav Gadgil -- Small-dam systems of the Sahyadris / David Hardiman -- Models of the hydraulic environments: colonial irrigation, state power and community in the Indus Basin / David Gilmartin -- The environmental costs of irrigation in British India: waterlogging, salinity and malaria / Elizabeth Whitcombe -- Inland waters and freshwater fisheries: some issues of control, access and conservaition in colonial India / Peter Reeves -- The conquest of smoke: legislation and pollution in colonial Calcutta / M.R. Anderson -- The resurgence of community forest management in the jungle mahals of west Bengal / Mark Poffenberger.
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Papers presented at the Conference on South Asia's Changing Environment, held at Lake Como during 16-20 March 1992; chiefly in Indian context.
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15.75 history of Asia.
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43.01 history of environmental science.
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Ecology.
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Politique de l'environnement-- Asie du Sud.
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Milieu.
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India, Environmental conditions, History.
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South Asia, Environmental conditions, History.
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India.
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South Asia.
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304.209 54
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333.70954
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GE160.S64N38 1996
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15.75bcl
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15.75.bcl
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43.01bcl
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43.01.bcl
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Arnold, David,1946-
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Guha, Ramachandra.
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