This Fissured Land

An Ecological History of India
2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-807744-2
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 224 g

This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an interpretative history ecological history of the Indian subcontinent. It offers a theory of ecological prudence and profligacy, testing this theory across the wide sweep of South Asian history. The book especially focuses on the use and abuse of forest resources. In Part One, the authors present a general theory of ecological history. Part Two provides a fresh interpretative history of pre-modern India along with an ecological interpretation of the caste system. In Part Three, the authors draw upon a huge wealth of source material in their socio-ecological analysis of the modes of resource use introduced in India by the British.

The Second Edition comes with a new Preface by the authors.

Zielgruppe

Ecologists, environmentalists, historians, sociologists and those interested in peasant studies and India's environment as well as a large general audience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gadgil, Madhav

Guha, Ramachandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltsoziologie, Umweltpsychologie, Umweltethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface to the Second Edition

- Acknowledgements

- Prologue: Prudence and Profligacy

- PART ONE: A THEORY OF ECOLOGICAL HISTORY

- 1. Habitats in Human History

- PART TWO: TOWARDS A CULTURAL ECOLOGY OF PRE-MODERN INDIA

- 2. Forest and Fire

- 3. Caste and Conservation

- PART THREE: ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL CONFLICT IN MODERN INDIA

- 4. Conquest and Control

- 5. The Fight for the Forest

- 6. Biomass for Business

- 7. Competing Claims on the Commons

- 8. Cultures in Conflict

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gadgil, Madhav
Madhav Gadgil, Former Professor of Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Guha, Ramachandra
Ramachandra Guha, One of India's best-known historians, and a full-time author and columnist

Madhav Gadgil is former Professor of Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Ramachandra Guha is one of India's best-known historians, and a full-time author and columnist.