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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Human ecology > South Asia.
Landscapes > Social aspects > South Asia.
Land use > Social aspects > South Asia.
Human beings > Effect of environment on > South Asia.
South Asia > Social life and customs.
Human beings > Effect of environment on.
Human ecology.
Land use > Social aspects.
Landscapes > Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
South Asia.
Physical Description:xvi, 243 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.