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Author : Sumit Guha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521055925
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Environment & Ethnicity In India:1200-1991 written by Sumit Guha and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sumit Guha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521640787
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991 written by Sumit Guha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a rich collection of sources, Sumit Guha demonstrates how the ideology of indigenous cultures, developed in recent years out of the notion of a pure and untouched ethnicity, is in fact rooted in nineteenth-century racial and colonial anthropology. Challenging this view, he traces the processes by which the apparently immutable identities of South Asian populations took shape, and how these populations interacted with civilizations beyond their immediate vicinity. His penetrating critique will make a significant contribution to the history of South Asia and to the literature on ethnicity.
Author : Sumit Guha
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254854
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Beyond Caste written by Sumit Guha and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.
Author : SUMIT. GUHA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789360804367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Beyond Caste written by SUMIT. GUHA and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.
Author : Sumit Guha
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295751509
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900 written by Sumit Guha and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to their agendas across Asia. Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400–1900 compares the practices of the Mughal and British Empires to demonstrate how their fluctuating capacity for domination was imbricated in the formation of environmental knowledge itself. The establishment of imperial control transforms local knowledge of the world into the aggregated information that reproduces centralized power over it. That is the political ecology that reshapes entire biomes. Animals and plants are translocated; human communities are displaced or destroyed. Some species proliferate; others disappear. But these state projects are overlaid upon the many local and regional geographies made by sacred cosmologies and local sites, pilgrimage routes and river fords, hot springs and fluctuating aquifers, hunting ranges and nesting grounds, notable trees and striking rocks. Guha uncovers these ecological histories by scrutinizing little-used archival sources. His historically based political ecology demonstrates how the biomes of a vast subcontinent were changed by struggles to make and to resist empire.
Author : Dirk H. A. Kolff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523059
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy written by Dirk H. A. Kolff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book firmly roots the history of the British Indian sepoy in India'a medieval past.
Author : Sumit Guha
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295746238
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000 written by Sumit Guha and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational system and mass production of textbooks that led to unification of historical discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization. Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to debates beyond the field of history that complicate the understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly post-truth world.
Author : Benjamin Robert Siegel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108695051
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Hungry Nation written by Benjamin Robert Siegel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.
Author : Edmund Burke III
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520943481
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Environment and World History written by Edmund Burke III and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections between environmental change and other major topics of early modern and modern world history: population growth, commercialization, imperialism, industrialization, the fossil fuel revolution, and more. Rather than attributing environmental change largely to European science, technology, and capitalism, the essays illuminate a series of culturally distinctive, yet often parallel developments arising in many parts of the world, leading to intensified exploitation of land and water. The wide range of regional studies—including some in Russia, China, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Southern Africa, and Western Europe—together with the book's broader thematic essays makes The Environment and World History ideal for courses that seek to incorporate the environment and environmental change more fully into a truly integrative understanding of world history. CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Adas, William Beinart, Edmund Burke III, Mark Cioc, Kenneth Pomeranz, Mahesh Rangarajan, John F. Richards, Lise Sedrez, Douglas R. Weiner
Author : Michael H. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107111625
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book An Environmental History of India written by Michael H. Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Author : Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315517191
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India,1792-1947 written by Velayutham Saravanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a bird’s eye view of the economic and environmental history of the Indian peninsula during colonial era. It analyses the nature of colonial land revenue policy, commercialisation of forest resources, consequences of coffee plantations, intrusion into tribal private forests and tribal-controlled geographical regions, and disintegration of their socio-cultural, political, administrative and judicial systems during the British Raj. It explores the economic history of the region through regional and ‘non-market’ economies and addresses the issues concerning local communities. Comprehensive, systematic and rich in archival material, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers in history, especially those concerned with economic and environmental history.
Author : Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811080526
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India written by Velayutham Saravanan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods. The book elaborately discusses the colonial plunder of forest resources up to the introduction of the Forest Act (1878) and focuses on how colonial policy impacted on the Indian environment, opening the floodgates of forest resources plunder, primarily for timber and to establish coffee and tea plantations. The book argues that even after the advent of conservation initiatives, commercial exploitation of forests continued unabated while stringent restrictions were imposed on the tribals, curtailing their access to the jungles. It details how post-colonial governments and populist votebank politics followed the same commercial forest policy till the 1980s without any major reform, exploiting forest resources and also encroaching upon forest lands, pushing the self-sustainable tribal economy to crumble. The book offers a comprehensive account of India’s environmental history during both colonial and post-colonial times, contributing to the current environmental policy debates in Asia.
Author : Mahesh Rangarajan
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131708101
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Environmental Issues in India written by Mahesh Rangarajan and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at a workshop convened at Department of History, Delhi University in September 2005.
Author : Patrick Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192550551
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity written by Patrick Roberts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins in the tropical forests of Africa to modern conservation issues. Following a review of the natural history and variability of tropical forest ecosystems, this book takes a tour of human, and human ancestor, occupation and use of tropical forest environments through time. Far from being pristine, primordial ecosystems, this book illustrates how our species has inhabited and modified tropical forests from the earliest stages of its evolution. While agricultural strategies and vast urban networks emerged in tropical forests long prior to the arrival of European colonial powers and later industrialization, this should not be taken as justification for the massive deforestation and biodiversity threats imposed on tropical forest ecosystems in the 21st century. Rather, such a long-term perspective highlights the ongoing challenges of sustainability faced by forager, agricultural, and urban societies in these environments, setting the stage for more integrated approaches to conservation and policy-making, and the protection of millennia of ecological and cultural heritage bound up in these habitats.
Author : Crispin Bates
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351587447
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Savage Attack written by Crispin Bates and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a conference held at London in June 2008.
Author : Ellen Bal
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304460
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)
Download or read book They Ask If We Eat Frogs written by Ellen Bal and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh. It deals with the evolution of Garo identity/ethnicity and with the progressive making of cultural characteristics that support a sense of Garo-ness, in the context of the complex historical developments.
Author : Moola Atchi Reddy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000454789
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book East India Company and Urban Environment in Colonial South India written by Moola Atchi Reddy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a pioneering attempt to analyse the linkages between the rule of East India Company and urban environment in colonial India over more than a half-century - from 1746 to 1803 - through a study of the city of Madras (present Chennai). The book traces urban development in colonial South India from a broad economic history point of view and with a focus on its environmental dimension, covering the period from the First Carnatic War until the 18th century by which time the English East India Company had consolidated its power. It discusses themes such as urban development; infrastructural development; housing and buildings, city and suburbs; and development of land and roads in the colonial period. Using extensive archival resources, it offers new insights on the various aspects of the shifting urban physical environment and captures the development of Madras city limits; road infrastructure, building of paved streets, whitewashed walls and compounded houses; establishment of garden houses; use of land resources; development of masonry bridges by merchants; housing problems; and the building of Fort House, Garden House, Admiralty House, Pantheon House, Custom House, etc. in Madras, to describe the impact of colonialism on urban environment. An important contribution to the history of urban economics and environment, this book with its lucid style and rich illustrations will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of colonial history, modern Indian history, environmental history, urban environment, urban history, political economy, urban economic history, Indian history, and South Asian studies.
