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Shifting Ground

People, Mobility and Animals in India's Envrionmental Histories

Herausgeber: Rangarajan, Mahesh; Sivaramakrishnan, K.

Beschreibung

Shifting Groun explores fresh critical questions about India's environmental past in terms of environmental issues and human intervention. Cutting across divides of prehistory and history and of ancient, medieval, colonial and independent India, this book makes us rethink our premises about ecology, polity and landscape in a land reshaped by human presence across millennia. Analyzing current environmental concerns regarding forests, pastures, wild anddomesticated animals this volume explores their interconnections with state making and political visions of the future.

Autor

Mahesh Rangarajan is Director, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and former Professor of Modern Indian History, University of Delhi. K Sivaramakrishnan is Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asian Studies at Yale University, Connecticut. He is also Professor of Anthropology, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Co-Director, Program in Agrarian Studies at the same university.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780198098959
• ISBN-10: 0198098952
• Artikelnr.: 47867280