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Shifting ground : people, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history

Title
Shifting ground : people, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history / edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan.
Publication
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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  • Rangarajan, Mahesh
  • Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957-
Description
viii, 310 pages; 23 cm
Subject
  • Human ecology > India > History
  • Nature > History. > India
  • Ecology
  • Human ecology
  • Nature > Effect of human beings on
  • Natur
  • Umwelt
  • Environment
  • India > Environmental conditions
  • India
  • Indien
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.
Contents
Introduction : People, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history / Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Conceiving ecology and stopping the clock : narratives of balance, loss and degradation / Kathleen D. Morrison -- From eminence to near extinction : the journey of the greater one-horned rhino / Shibani Bose -- Lions, cheetahs, and others in the Mughal landscape / Divyabhanusinh -- Environmental status and wild boars in princely India / Julie E. Hughes -- The imperial ambition of science and its discontents : animal breeding in nineteenth-century Punjab / Brian P. Caton -- Making room inside forests : grazing and agrarian conflicts in colonial Assam / Arupjyoti Saikia -- Nature and politics at the end of Raj : environmental management and political legitimacy in late colonial India, 1919-47 / Daniel Klingensmith -- How to be Hindu in the Himalayas : conflicts over animal sacrifice in Uttarakhand / Radhika Govindrajan -- Logjam : peasantization caused deforestation in Narmada Valley / Vikramaditya Thakur -- The 'tiger crisis' and the response : reclaiming the wilderness in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan / Ghazala Shahabuddin.
ISBN
  • 9780198098959
  • 0198098952
LCCN
2014357961
OCLC
  • 879398200
  • SCSB-5833499
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries