This is an omnibus edition of two books which challenged understanding of Indian history. "This Fissured Land" presents an interpretive ecological history of the sub-continent. "Ecology and Equity" is a spirited intervention into the environment-development debate.
The studies show how the Himalayan pastoral nomads islanders and other people folow the spirit of the natural world, in continuation of the primal vision, by delineating their belief systems.
Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem. This study explores the ecologically complex country of India, whose peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The book analyzes the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the ...
Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem. This study explores the ecologically complex country of India, whose peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The book analyzes the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the ...
In the first part of this book, the authors present a general theory of ecological history which attempts a paradigm shift from Weberian and Marxian theories of human society. They examine infrastructures, property systems, political ideologies, religions, social idioms and the belief structures that characterize human interactions with resource ...
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