This fissured land : an ecological history of India
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This fissured land : an ecological history of India
(Oxford India perennials)
Oxford University Press, 2013
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
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  Gifu
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  Kyoto
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  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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Note
"First edition published in 1992. "--T.p.verso
"Oxford India paperbacks 1993. Oxford India Perennials 2013"--T.p.verso
Description based on 23rd impression 2022
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-234) and indexes:
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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