Environmental History of India - From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century

This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Locating and shaping India's physical environment and living populations; 3. Indus and Vedic relationships with Indian environments (c.3500 BCE-c.600 BCE); 4. The environment and forest-dweller, late Vedic, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, and Dravidian cultures, societies, and states (c.600 BCE-c.800 CE); 5. Insiders, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim immigrants, and the environment (c.700-c.1600); 6. Mughal empire (1526-1707); 7. Mughal imperial fragmentation, regional state rise, popular environmental movements, and early British colonial policies and institutions (c.1700-1857); 8. The British Raj, 'Mahatma' Gandhi, and other anti-colonial movements (1857-1947); 9. West and East Pakistan and India following independence (1947-71); 10. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh from Stockholm to Rio (1971-92); 11. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh into the twenty-first century; 12. National, subcontinental, and global issues in South Asia; Bibliographic essay.

About the author

Michael H. Fisher is Danforth Professor of History, Emeritus, at Oberlin College, Ohio. He is the author of numerous books, including Migration: A World History (2013) and A Short History of the Mughal Empire (2015).

Summary

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By surveying their environmental history, we can gain major insights into the causes and implications of the Indian subcontinent's current conditions, especially the complex interactions among its people, other living creatures, and the physical world.

Product details

• Authors: Michael H Fisher, Michael H. Fisher, Michael H. (Oberlin College Fisher, Fisher Michael H.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781107111622
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11162-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: New Approaches to Asian History; New Approaches to Asian Histor; New Approaches to Asian Histor; New Approaches to Asian History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: specific events & topics, India, Environmentalist thought & ideology, History: specific events and topics, Asian History, Environmentalist thought and ideology, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, India; environment; history