Nature and nation : essays on environmental history / Mahesh Rangarajan.

By:

Rangarajan, Mahesh [author.]

Contributor(s):

Ashoka University [issuing body.]

Series: Ashoka University history seriesPublisher: Ranikhet : Permanent Black in association with Ashoka University, [2015]Distributor: India : Orient Blackswan Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 346 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9788178245003

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

304.20954

LOC classification:

GF13.3.I4 R36 2015

Contents:

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Issues in the Writing of Environmental History; I. Nature's Past; 2 The Raj and the Natural World: The War Against 'Dangerous Beasts' in Colonial India; 3 From Princely Symbol to Conservation Icon: A Political History of the Lion in India; II. Nature's Present; 4 Gandhi's Notion of Ahimsa and the Human-Nature Relationship; 5 Striving for a Balance: Nature, Power, Science, and India's Indira Gandhi 1917-1984; 6 Of Nature and Nationalism: Rethinking India's Nehru; 7 Five Nature Writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Slim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and M. Krishnan; III. Nature's Future; 8 The Politics of Ecology: The Debate on Wildlife and People in India 1970-1995; 9 Parks, Politics, and History: Conservation Dilemmas in Africa; 10 Contesting Conservation: Nature, Politics, and History in Contemporary India.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
BOOKs	National Law School	General Stacks	304.20954 RAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Recommended by Dr. Anwesha Ghosh		39134

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements;
1 Introduction: Issues in the Writing of Environmental History;
I. Nature's Past;
2 The Raj and the Natural World: The War Against 'Dangerous Beasts' in Colonial India;
3 From Princely Symbol to Conservation Icon: A Political History of the Lion in India;
II. Nature's Present;
4 Gandhi's Notion of Ahimsa and the Human-Nature Relationship;
5 Striving for a Balance: Nature, Power, Science, and India's Indira Gandhi 1917-1984;
6 Of Nature and Nationalism: Rethinking India's Nehru;
7 Five Nature Writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Slim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and
M. Krishnan;
III. Nature's Future;
8 The Politics of Ecology: The Debate on Wildlife and People in India 1970-1995;
9 Parks, Politics, and History: Conservation Dilemmas in Africa;
10 Contesting Conservation: Nature, Politics, and History in Contemporary India.

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