An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781107529106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

Michael H. Fisher

Opis

This longue duree survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.

Recenzje

'So, three cheers for a new book by one of the world's most distinguished environmental historians … deserves a place on the shelves of secondary schools, colleges and universities throughout the English speaking Commonwealth, of which India is such an important member … Cambridge University Press should be congratulated for including so many excellent maps, diagrams and illustrations which make even more compelling the text of this well-written, beautifully presented but at times most chilling of books.' Trevor Grundy, Asian Affairs

Spis treści

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.