essays on the environmental history of South Asia /
edited by David Arnold and Ramachandra Guha.
[Oxford India pbk. ed.].
Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
xi, 376 pages :
illustrations, maps ;
22 cm.
Oxford India paperbacks
Studies in social ecology and environmental history
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: themes and issues in the environmental history of South Asia / David Arnold, Ramachandra Guha -- Forests, pastoralists and agrarian society in Mughal India / Chetan Singh -- Pastoralists in a colonial world / Neeladri Bhattacharya -- Whose trees?: forest practices and local communities in Andhra, 1600-1922 / Atluri Murali -- British attitudes towards shifting cultivation in colonial south India: a case study of South Canara district, 1800-1920 / Jacques Pouchepadass -- Maps as markers of ecological change: a case study of the Nilgiri Hills of southern India / R. Prabhakar, Madhav Gadgil -- Small-dam systems of the Sahyadris / David Hardiman -- Models of the hydraulic environments: colonial irrigation, state power and community in the Indus Basin / David Gilmartin -- The environmental costs of irrigation in British India: waterlogging, salinity and malaria / Elizabeth Whitcombe -- Inland waters and freshwater fisheries: some issues of control, access and conservaition in colonial India / Peter Reeves -- The conquest of smoke: legislation and pollution in colonial Calcutta / M.R. Anderson -- The resurgence of community forest management in the jungle mahals of west Bengal / Mark Poffenberger.
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Papers presented at the Conference on South Asia's Changing Environment, held at Lake Como during 16-20 March 1992; chiefly in Indian context.