This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

By:

Gadgil, Madhav

Contributor(s):

Guha, Ramchandra

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2025Description: xvi, 241 pISBN:

9780198077442

Subject(s):

History

DDC classification:

304.20954 GAD

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Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Prologue: Prudence and Profligacy
PART ONE: A THEORY OF ECOLOGICAL HISTORY
1. Habitats in Human History
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

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