Shifting ground : people, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history / edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Rangarajan, Mahesh (Editor) Sivaramakrishnan, K., 1957- (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Human ecology > India > History. Nature > Effect of human beings on > India > History. Ecology. Human ecology. Nature > Effect of human beings on. India > Environmental conditions. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	viii, 310 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction : People, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history / Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan
Conceiving ecology and stopping the clock : narratives of balance, loss and degradation / Kathleen D. Morrison
From eminence to near extinction : the journey of the greater one-horned rhino / Shibani Bose
Lions, cheetahs, and others in the Mughal landscape / Divyabhanusinh
Environmental status and wild boars in princely India / Julie E. Hughes
The imperial ambition of science and its discontents : animal breeding in nineteenth-century Punjab / Brian P. Caton
Making room inside forests : grazing and agrarian conflicts in colonial Assam / Arupjyoti Saikia
Nature and politics at the end of Raj : environmental management and political legitimacy in late colonial India, 1919-47 / Daniel Klingensmith
How to be Hindu in the Himalayas : conflicts over animal sacrifice in Uttarakhand / Radhika Govindrajan
Logjam : peasantization caused deforestation in Narmada Valley / Vikramaditya Thakur
The 'tiger crisis' and the response : reclaiming the wilderness in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan / Ghazala Shahabuddin.