Ecologies of empire in South Asia, 1400-1900 / Sumit Guha.

"By focusing on the human gaze, or how people interpret their relationship with land, Sumit Guha traces the longue durée of the political ecology of empire in South Asia during the age of empires. This relationship is in most sharp relief when comparing the exploitative and extractive practices of t...

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Uniform Title:Culture, place, and nature.
Main Author: Guha, Sumit (Author)
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2023]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
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Physical Description:xvi, 243 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Inequality, complexity, and ecology -- South Asia in the imperial gaze -- Imperial gaze, lordly grasp -- The village and its inhabitants -- Lands of resistance, terrains of refuge -- Colonialism, disarmament, and the closing of the forest frontier. 
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