Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991

Klappentext An analysis of environment and ethnicity through the history of forest communities in western India, first published in 1999. Zusammenfassung This 1999 book reconstructs the history of forest communities in western India to explore questions relating to identity and the environment. It demonstrates how the ideology of indigenous cultures! developed out of the notion of a pure and untouched ethnicity! is rooted in racial and colonial anthropology. This penetrating critique will contribute significantly to the literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis 'Rama, Sita and Lukshmana in the forest'; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From the archaeology of mind to the archaeology of matter; 2. Subsistence and predation at the margins of cultivation; 3. State formation in the highland forests, 1350-1800; 4. The peoples of the Sahyadri under Marathas and British; 5. The central Indian forest from Mughal suzerainty to British control; 6. The central Indian forest under early British rule; 7. Identity and aspiration: not noble savage but savage noble; 8. The high colonial period and after: new patterns of authority and power; 9. From sanctuaries to safeguards: policies and politics in twentieth-century India; Conclusion; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Sumit Guha, Sumit (Indian Institute of Management Guha
• Assisted by: Christopher Alan Bayly (Editor), Rajnarayan Chandavarkar (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.1999
• EAN: 9780521640787
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64078-7
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous