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Author : Nanditha Krishna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788184932294
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Madras-Chennai, Its History and Environment written by Nanditha Krishna and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350130842
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Water and the Environmental History of Modern India written by Velayutham Saravanan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots.
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.
Author : C_s_srinivasachari C_s_srinivasachari
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021196088
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book History Of The City Of Madras written by C_s_srinivasachari C_s_srinivasachari and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of the city of Madras, now known as Chennai, spans from its early origins to modern times. With detailed accounts of significant events and people, it is a must-read for anyone interested in Indian history or urban development. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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 : Mary E. Hancock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002656
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai written by Mary E. Hancock and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthropological history, Mary E. Hancock examines the politics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Once a colonial port, Chennai is now poised to become a center for India's "new economy" of information technology, export processing, and back-office services. State and local governments promote tourism and a heritage-conscious cityscape to make Chennai a recognizable "brand" among investment and travel destinations. Using a range of textual, visual, architectural, and ethnographic sources, Hancock grapples with the question of how people in Chennai remember and represent their past, considering the political and economic contexts and implications of those memory practices. Working from specific sites, including a historic district created around an ancient Hindu temple, a living history museum, neo-traditional and vernacular architecture, and political memorials, Hancock examines the spatialization of memory under the conditions of neoliberalism.
Author : Moola Atchi Reddy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100093814X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book East India Company and Trade in South India written by Moola Atchi Reddy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the economic history of the English East India Company’s trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of the 18th century. It traces the role of trade and commerce as followed by the European EICs to achieve their economic ends, territorial expansion and control of productive resources. The author portrays the nature, contents, volume and changing trends of trade and commerce over a decisive period of Indian economic history. The volume discusses the chief constituents of trade in general, exports, investments, imports and private trade and traders of Madras from 1746 to 1803. Rich in archival resources, this is an essential resource for administrators, students, scholars and researchers of colonial history and modern Indian economic history, besides British trade history.
Author : Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 935435050X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Environmental History of Modern India written by Velayutham Saravanan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, over the decades, has experienced multiple changes, including population explosion, urbanisation, technological advancement, commercialisation of agriculture, change in land-use pattern, vast improvement of infrastructure facilities, etc., which have had an impact on the environment. Author Velayutham Saravanan attempts to understand the complexity of the environmental history of contemporary India from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Environmental History of Contemporary India begins with an analysis of land-use patterns and population and their impact on the environment. Further, it discusses the exploitation of natural resources for commercial motives by the colonial administration and argues that the colonial commercial policy of over one-and-a-half centuries had impacted the ecology and environment. The book also deliberates whether the postcolonial government policies have changed in favour of environmental protection or have continued with the colonial policy, and attempts to throw light on the issues of how the land for development policies have impacted the environment from the early nineteenth century until recent years. It then looks at the problem of electronic waste and its adverse impact on the environment, ecology and health in a historical manner while engaging with the complexity of the conflict between land and population in relation to the environment. The book is the most comprehensive presentation on land, population, technology and development that India has witnessed since the early nineteenth century.
Author : Suvobrata Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000485005
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India written by Suvobrata Sarkar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the concept and relevance of HISTEM (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine) in shaping the histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. Tracing its evolution from the establishment of the East India Company through to the early decades after the Independence of India, it highlights the ways in which the discipline has changed over the years and examines the various influences that have shaped it. Drawing on extensive case studies, the book offers valuable insights into diverse themes such as the East–West encounter, appropriation of new knowledge, science in translation and communication, electricity and urbanization, the colonial context of engineering education, science of hydrology, oil and imperialism, epidemic and empire, vernacular medicine, gender and medicine, as well as environment and sustainable development in the colonial and postcolonial milieu. An indispensable text on South Asia’s experience of modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian studies, modern Indian history, sociology, history of science, cultural studies, colonialism, as well as studies on Science, Technology, and Society (STS).
Author : S. Muthiah
Publisher : Eastwest Books (Madras)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Madras Rediscovered written by S. Muthiah and published by Eastwest Books (Madras). This book was released on 1999 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to the city of Madras (now Chennai) interwoven with its history. Maps on the fiirst and last end cover, number of illustrations, text clean, condition good..
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 : Mark Frost
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000610292
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Environment and Ecology in the Long Nineteenth-Century written by Mark Frost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume includes scientific sources that were foundational in the professionalization of science and in the development and dissemination of scientific thinking as it moved towards evolutionary thought, including emerging ideas in biology, botany, zoology, anatomy, natural theology, and geology. The volume is comprised of specialist and popular science, and because science was becoming increasingly internationalised, particularly significant and influential overseas sources have been included. The volume includes extracts from works by Rev. Gilbert White, Baron Cuvier, William Paley, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Rev. William Buckland, Charles Waterton, Charles Lyell, Richard Owen, Louis Agassiz, Roderick Murchison, Alexander von Humboldt, Henry Sedgwick, Hugh Miller, Patrick Mathew, Robert Chambers, John Ruskin, and Philip Gosse.
Author : Glyn Barlow
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Story of Madras written by Glyn Barlow and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of Madras" aims to present the ancient orient city as an exciting corner of the world. The author shares a good deal of the Madras history and complements it with descriptions of the city's most prominent buildings and other sights. It is an interesting last-era tourist book, which can still be attractive to the modern user.
Author : Nanditha Krishna
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143066196
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sacred Animals of India written by Nanditha Krishna and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief in the sanctity of animals originated from ideas of karma and the transmigration of souls - thus an ant or a tiger could be one's past or future identity.
Author : Vandana Sharma Diya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527541320
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Environmental Consciousness and the Nine Schools of Indian Philosophy written by Vandana Sharma Diya and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an analytical exposition of the ‘Nine Schools’ of Indian philosophy, extrapolating ‘Environmental Ethics’ from the profound metaphysics of these Nine Schools, which serve as the cornerstone of a life lived in wisdom. This book uses the popular contemporary word ‘Environment,’ with the meaning expounded by the Vedic texts. Therefore, it includes the internal, external and cosmic states of all the creatures of the world, and relates them to the universal laws of creation, preservation, and annihilation of every existence following the path of the cosmic order (Ṛta). It argues that realization of the fact that all entities in the world are illuminated by the same Universal Spirit is also necessary. While the book emphasizes the external environmental woes of the world, such as deforestation, animal cruelty, pollution, climate change, and more, it also underscores that these are merely manifestations of humans’ internal perverted environmental states. Thus, humankind should not look at external issues that are limited and temporary, but should focus on the longer-lasting internal transformation.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032234236
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (342 download)
Download or read book East India Company and Urban Environment in Colonial South India written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chidambaram S. Srinivasachari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book History of the City of Madras written by Chidambaram S. Srinivasachari and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
