02866nam a22003257a 4500 33329 BD-DhAAL 20250624122953.0 180715t1999 ii a|||| b||| 001 0 eng d 0195643151 9780195643152 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL 634.9095414 Sivaramakrishnan, K. 27239 Modern forests : statemaking and environmental change in colonial eastern India / K. Sivaramakrishnan. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c1999. xxviii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. Studies in social ecology and environmental history "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" includes bibliographical references (pages[290]-323) and index. 1. 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. Modern 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. ARC Department of Architecture 33329 Forest management India Bengal. 27240 Forest policy India Bengal. 27241 Department of Architecture General Stacks ddc BK 39763 39763 0 1 ddc 0 634_909541400000000_SIV 0 63791 ARC ARC GEN 2018-07-15 Department of Architecture 0 634.9095414 SIV 3010033329 2018-07-15 1 2018-07-15 BK lost from the ARC department library and approved by the Dean (reasons personal books withdrawn by Hasibul Kabir Sir and Building shifting)