Modern forests : statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India /
Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the impact of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book probes the interrelated social and biophysical factor...
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| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
c1999
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| Series: | Studies in social ecology and environmental history
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Statemaking and Environmental Change Pt. 1. Intimations of a Governmental Rationality at the Margins of Empire. 2. British Entry into the Jungle Mahals. 3. Geographies of Empire: The Transition from 'Wild' to Managed Landscapes. 4. Visibility, Estimation, and Laying Down the Ground Rules Pt. 2. Formal Structures of Forest Management. 5. Varied Regimes of Restriction and Lumbering. 6. Forests in a Regional Agrarian Economy. 7. Nature's Science: Fire and Forest Regeneration. 8. Science and Conservation: Hybrid Genealogies of Development. 9. Conclusion.