Michael H. Fisher

Environmental History of India (eBook, PDF)

From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh contain one-fifth of humanity, are home to many biodiversity hotspots, and are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By surveying their environmental history, we can gain major insights into the causes and implications of the Indian subcontinent's current conditions. This accessible new survey begins roughly 100 million years ago, when continental drift moved India from the South Pole and across the Indian Ocean, forming the Himalayan Mountains and creating monsoons. Coverage continues to the twenty-first century, taking readers beyond independence from colonial rule. The new nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have produced rising populations and have stretched natural resources, even as they have become increasingly engaged with climate change. To understand the region's current and future pressing issues, Michael H. Fisher argues that we must engage with the long and complex history of interactions among its people, land, climate, flora, and fauna.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108679787
• Artikelnr.: 56547156

Autorenporträt

Michael H. Fisher is Danforth Professor of History, Emeritus, at Oberlin College, Ohio. He is the author of numerous books, including Migration: A World History (2013) and A Short History of the Mughal Empire (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Locating and shaping India's physical environment and living populations; 3. Indus and Vedic relationships with Indian environments (c.3500 BCE-c.600 BCE); 4. The environment and forest-dweller
late Vedic
Hindu
Jain
Buddhist
and Dravidian cultures
societies
and states (c.600 BCE-c.800 CE); 5. Insiders
Jewish
Christian
and Muslim immigrants
and the environment (c.700-c.1600); 6. Mughal empire (1526-1707); 7. Mughal imperial fragmentation
regional state rise
popular environmental movements
and early British colonial policies and institutions (c.1700-1857); 8. The British Raj
'Mahatma' Gandhi
and other anti-colonial movements (1857-1947); 9. West and East Pakistan and India following independence (1947-71); 10. India
Pakistan
and Bangladesh from Stockholm to Rio (1971-92); 11. India
Pakistan
and Bangladesh into the twenty-first century; 12. National
subcontinental
and global issues in South Asia; Bibliographic essay.