An environmental history of India : from earliest times to the twenty-first century / Michael H. Fisher.
Material type: TextSeries: New approaches to Asian history ; 18Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: x, 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781107529106 (paperback)
- 304.20954 FIS 23 012919
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304.20954 ENV DS0032 Environment and urbanization Asia. | 304.20954 ENV DS0033 Environment and urbanization Asia. | 304.20954 ENV DS0034 Environment and urbanization Asia. | 304.20954 FIS 012919 An environmental history of India : | 304.20954 GAD 001501 This fissured land : | 304.20954 GAD 003732 This fissured land : | 304.20954 GAD 019345 यह दरकती जमीन: Yah darkati jameen : भारत का पारिस्थितिक इतिहास / Bharat ka parishthitik itihas / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Locating and shaping India's physical environment and living populations -- Indus and Vedic relationships with Indian environments (c.3500 BCE-c.600BCE) -- The environment and forest-dweller, late Vedic, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Dravidian cultures, societies, and states (c.600 BCE-c.800 CE) -- Insiders, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim immigrants, and the environment (c.700-c.1600) -- Mughal Empire (1526-1707) -- Mughal imperial fragmentation, regional state rise, popular environmental movements, and early British colonial policies and institutions (c.1700-1857) -- The British Raj, "Mahatma" Gandhi, and other anti-colonial movements (1857-1947) -- West and east Pakistan and India following Independence (1947-71) -- India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh from Stockholm to Rio (1971-92) -- India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh into the twenty-first century -- National, subcontinental, and global issues in South Asia.
"The relatively young but rapidly expanding field of formal environmental history informs us ever more about vital patterns of interactions among humans, other living beings, and the material world. Climate change, species extinction, unequally distributed and overstrained essential resources (including clean air, energy, food, land, and water), and other of today's pressing issues can only be understood and mitigated by understanding the many centuries of dynamic changes that caused them. The Indian subcontinent has a distinctively complex environmental history that makes it particularly vulnerable to current environmental stresses"--
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