Gadgil, Madhav

This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India - New Delhi Oxford University Press 2025 - xvi, 241 p.

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

9780198077442


History

304.20954 / GAD