Modern forests : statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India / K. Sivaramakrishnan

By:

Sivaramakrishnan, K

Series: Studies in social ecology and environmental historyPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c1999Description: xxviii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN:

0195643151
9780195643152

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DDC classification:

634.9095414

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.

Summary: 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 factors that influenced landscape change. Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests reveals the contention, debates, and uncertainty that persisted for two hundred years of colonial rule as forests were identified, classified, and brought under different regimes of control and were transformed to serve a broad array of imperial and local interests."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	School of Architecture & Design (SoAD) General Stacks	School of Architecture & Design (SoAD) General Stacks	634.9095414 SIV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Lost		3010033329

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"This book has been prepared from the first volume of a two-volume historical and ethnographic study on statemaking and forest management in Bengal, completed as a PhD dissertation for the Department of Anthropology, Yale University"

includes bibliographical references (pages[290]-323) and index.

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.

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 factors that influenced landscape change.
Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests reveals the contention, debates, and uncertainty that persisted for two hundred years of colonial rule as forests were identified, classified, and brought under different regimes of control and were transformed to serve a broad array of imperial and local interests."--BOOK JACKET.

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