Told in lucid and beautiful prose, the story of Indias wild ride since independence is a riveting one. Guha explores the dramatic protests and conflicts that have shaped modern India, but he writes also of the factors that have kept the country together.
A new entry in the Longman World History Series, Environmentalism: A Global History is perfect for professors who want to assign short topical paperbacks which explore global issues and movements in their world history classes. This volume will fit into the second half of World History courses which typically cover the period from 1500 to the ...
A book that interweaves biography with history, the lives of cricketers with wider processes of social change. C.K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book, but so too do Mahatma Gandhi and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The Indian careers of the English cricketers, Lord Harris and D.R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of ...
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.
Environmental history is a fast developing field of critical enquiry. In both ecological and cultural terms, South Asia is characterized by its diversity. Ecological degradation, and the social conflicts that have come in its wake, have underlined the need for historical research in this field. This work should be of value to ecologists, ...
This omnibus edition brings together three seminal works by one of India's best-known historians and environmentalist Ramachandra Guha "The Unquiet Woods", "A Global History " and "Savaging the Civilised".
Based on research conducted over two decades, this accessible and deeply felt book provides a provocative comparative history of environmentalism in two large ecologically and culturally diverse democracies - India and the United States. Ramachandra Guha takes as his point of departure the dominant environmental philosophies in these two countries ...
M. Krishnan (1913-86) was a naturalist known for his prose style, his learning, and his astonishingly wide range of interests. For nearly 60 years he wrote columns, essays, sketches, and jeremiads on the ecology and culture of the subcontinent. As a chronicler of the natural world Krishnan was unequalled, yet his work is to be found, for the most ...
Verrier Elwin (1902-1964) was an influential non-official Englishman who lived and worked in 20th-century India. Elwin's ethnographic studies and popular works on India's tribal customs, art, myth and folklore continue to generate controversy. Described by his contemporaries as a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Paul Gauguin, Elwin was a man of ...
With the growing awareness of the causes and consequences of environmental degradation, the field of social ecology has assumed enormous importance. This reader provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field.
This work documents the social and environmental consequences of commercial forestry in the watershed of the Ganges, even as it focuses on wide-ranging peasant struggles in defence of forest rights in this region generally. The author challenges Eurocentric theories which hold that peasants and peasant movements will disappear in the modern world. ...
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 ...
This volume brings together a set of original essays written in tribute to Andre Beteille, whose work as a sociologist and social anthropologist has been marked by a distinctive combination of theoretical innovation and scrupulous scholarship. These essays, likewise, match theory with empirical data, engaging with, extending and occasionally ...
Drawing upon research that goes back over 15 years, this book describes the contrasting histories of environmentalism in the North and the South. The main focus of the book rests on the environmental conflicts in South Asia and Latin America, with an exploration of their origins and ideologies.
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