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100 _aSivaramakrishnan, K.
_927239
245 _aModern forests :
_bstatemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India /
_cK. Sivaramakrishnan.
260 _aNew Delhi :
_bOxford University Press,
_cc1999.
300 _axxviii, 341 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c22 cm.
490 _aStudies in social ecology and environmental history
500 _a"This book has been prepared from the first volume of a two-volume historical and ethnographic study on statemaking and forest management in Bengal, completed as a PhD dissertation for the Department of Anthropology, Yale University"
504 _aincludes bibliographical references (pages[290]-323) and index.
505 _a1. Statemaking and Environmental Change Pt. 1. Intimations of a Governmental Rationality at the Margins of Empire. 2. British Entry into the Jungle Mahals. 3. Geographies of Empire: The Transition from 'Wild' to Managed Landscapes. 4. Visibility, Estimation, and Laying Down the Ground Rules Pt. 2. Formal Structures of Forest Management. 5. Varied Regimes of Restriction and Lumbering. 6. Forests in a Regional Agrarian Economy. 7. Nature's Science: Fire and Forest Regeneration. 8. Science and Conservation: Hybrid Genealogies of Development. 9. Conclusion.
520 _aModern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the impact of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book probes the interrelated social and biophysical factors that influenced landscape change. Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests reveals the contention, debates, and uncertainty that persisted for two hundred years of colonial rule as forests were identified, classified, and brought under different regimes of control and were transformed to serve a broad array of imperial and local interests."--BOOK JACKET.
526 _aARC
650 _aForest management
_zIndia
_zBengal.
_927240
650 _aForest policy
_zIndia
_zBengal.
_927241
852 _aDepartment of Architecture
_cGeneral Stacks
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_cBK
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