Playing with Nature

History and Politics of Environment in North-East India
Herausgeber: Nag, Sajal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

North East India is called nature's gift to India. The region has been experiencing environmental depletion which was a result of colonial policies, exploitation of its ecological and mineral resources, establishment of the plantation industry through deforestation and other factors. This books depicts the precariousness of the environmental situation and traces the history and politics of such degeneration with a view to raise the consciousness of the people of the region towards their environment and save it from further aggravation. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781138280632
• ISBN-10: 1138280631
• Artikelnr.: 48887379

Autorenporträt

Sajal Nag teaches Modern History at Assam Central University. Earlier he was associated with the North-Eastern Hill University and the Centre for Social Studies, Surat.

Inhaltsangabe

1. India's North-east: An Enigmatic Absence in History and Cartography 2.
Marsh, Rice and Faith: Aspects of Environmental and Religious Changes in
the Early Medieval Surma-Barak Valley 3. Man, Nature and State in
Pre-Colonial Kachar 4. Environment and War: Small Wars in North-east India,
1845-1913 5. The Coming of British Forestry in Assam in the Nineteenth and
Early Twentieth Century: Initiatives and Problems 6. The Ecological and
Social Watershed: Colonial Intervention and Forest Use in Assam 7. Forests,
Fields and Pasture: Environmental and Revenue Debates of Land Usage in
Colonial Assam in 1910-1920 8. Colonialism and Deforestation in Naga Hills
9. State Science, Hegemony and Shifting the Cultivator: Contesting the
'Anti-modernity' Discourse on Shifting Cultivation in South Asia 10. Land
Use/Land Cover Change and its Impact on Climate in the Barak Valley, Assam
11. Rain, Rain, Come Again: History of Rainfall, Deforestation and Water
Scarcity in Cherrapunji, the Rainiest Spot in the Globe 12. Challenging
Times, Challenged Body: Decolonization, Displacement and Disease among East
Pakistani Refugees in South Assam, 1947-1954 13. The Empire as a World of
Sport: Aspects of Hunting in Colonial Assam, c. 1850-1900 14. Colonizing
the Wild: British Policies towards Wildlife in Assam, 1874-1947 15.
Encountering Floods: Colonial State and the Flood of 1916 in the
Surma-Barak Valley of Assam 16. Environmental Impact of the Great
Earthquakes of 1897 and 1950 on North East India 17. Mythology as a Protest
Narrative: A Lepcha Tale