Unearthed The Environmental History Of Independent India

Author : Meghaa Gupta
Publisher : India Puffin
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143450913

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Unearthed: The Environmental History of Independent India by Meghaa Gupta Pdf

Protesting against dams, protecting tigers, hugging trees, saving seeds, making room for elephants, battling mountains of waste, fighting air pollution, coping with soaring temperatures-India and its people have shared a remarkable relationship with the environment. From the Green Revolution to the National Action Plan on Climate Change, Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India chronicles the country's historical movements and significant green missions since 1947. Interspersed with lots of trivia, tales of eco-heroes and humorous cartoons, this easy-to-read account uncovers the story of a past with the hope that we will rewrite India's future.

Author : Meghaa Gupta
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789353058852

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Unearthed by Meghaa Gupta Pdf

Protesting against dams, protecting tigers, hugging trees, saving seeds, making room for elephants, battling mountains of waste, fighting air pollution, coping with soaring temperatures-India and its people have shared a remarkable relationship with the environment. From the Green Revolution to the National Action Plan on Climate Change, Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India chronicles the country's historical movements and significant green missions since 1947. Interspersed with lots of trivia, tales of eco-heroes and humorous cartoons, this easy-to-read account uncovers the story of a past with the hope that we will rewrite India's future.

Author : Michael H. Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111622

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An Environmental History of India by Michael H. Fisher Pdf

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

Author : Meghaa Gupta
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789354926648

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After Midnight by Meghaa Gupta Pdf

At the time of independence, few believed that a country made up of over 500 princely states and British provinces could survive as a nation, even for a few years. That a land stripped of its riches, wracked by disease and famine and divided along tense communal lines, could thrive in its ambition and aspirations. Yet, in 75 years since independence, India has grown beyond anyone's expectation. Today it's an Asian powerhouse, poised to become the third largest economy in the world. In many ways, this is one of the greatest underdog-beating-the-odds stories in world history. How did India get this far? What were the sweeping social, cultural, scientific, political, military, environmental and economic developments it witnessed along the way? Interspersed with personal anecdotes, illustrations, infographics, informative timelines and pull quotes, After Midnight gives a powerful context to the present and revels in the diverse and remarkable ideas that have come to shape this great nation. It attempts to provide young readers with perspective, meaning, and food for thought as they try to comprehend the many facets of this fascinating country. This well-researched, accessible and definitive handbook tells the story of India like never before.

Author : Ranjan Chakrabarti
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9353883148

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Critical Themes in Environmental History of India by Ranjan Chakrabarti Pdf

A first of its kind in India, the book addresses the fundamental questions of environmental concern and enquires into the complex patterns of human-nature interaction within the discipline of environmental history in India. This book delves into history to examine a number of critical themes, such as waterbodies and water, forests, land use, wildlife and the issue of the history of climate in India. It focuses on the methodological and historiographical aspects of environmental history and raises new questions to open up new windows leading to fresh research questions. The book argues that environmental history would serve as an important gateway to the history of the human-nature relationship, for example, exploring the role of water history would help in understanding the present context of water crisis in Indian cities. Critical Themes in Environmental History of India is a powerful reminder of the fact that in the context of Indian history it is now necessary to listen to the voice of nature more carefully.

Author : Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350130845

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Water and the Environmental History of Modern India by Velayutham Saravanan Pdf

This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots.

Author : Mahua Sarkar,Subhasis Biswas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 819296356X

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Glimpses of Environmental History by Mahua Sarkar,Subhasis Biswas Pdf

Author : Meghaa Gupta
Publisher : Puffin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143458760

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After Midnight by Meghaa Gupta Pdf

At the time of Independence, few believed that a country made up of British provinces and over 500 princely states could survive as a nation, even for a few years. That a land stripped of its riches, wracked by disease and famine, and divided along tense communal lines could thrive in its aspirations. Yet, in the 75 years since Independence, India has grown beyond anyone's expectation. How did India get this far? What were the sweeping social, political, scientific, technological, military, environmental and economic developments it witnessed along the way? Interspersed with personal anecdotes, illustrations, infographics, informative timelines and quotes, After Midnight revels in the diverse ideas that have come to shape India and offers a multifaceted context to the present. In many ways, this is one of the greatest underdog-beating-the-odds stories in world history, full of blood, sweat, tragedy and triumph.

Author : Mahesh Rangarajan,K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : OCLC:874146975

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India's Environmental History by Mahesh Rangarajan,K. Sivaramakrishnan Pdf

Author : Ranjan Chakrabarti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Enviromental policy
ISBN : 8187891610

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Does Environmental History Matter? by Ranjan Chakrabarti Pdf

The image of 1857 in Indian history is marked with great hope, desire, aspiration, rebel violence, state violence as well as despair, agony, and horror. The present study is a reassessment of the history of 1857 keeping in mind the aforementioned issues.

Author : Ranjan Chakrabarti
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015072808846

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Situating Environmental History by Ranjan Chakrabarti Pdf

Concern For The Environment Is Not New; It Has Always Existed. One Of The Flash Points In The Inner Conflicts Within Human Societies Of The Past Was Fuelled By The Continuous Effort To Resolve The Legitimate Use Of The Natural World. Nature Is One Of Those Spaces Where We Observe The Most Intense Forms Of Class Struggle And Power Politics - The More Privileged Control The Natural Resources.

Author : Mahesh Rangarajan,K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0198098952

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Shifting Ground by Mahesh Rangarajan,K. Sivaramakrishnan Pdf

'Shifting Ground' brings together an array of essays that pose critical questions regarding India's environmental past and the way it has been approached by scholars. From debunking the idea of a primeval, pristine forest cover, to analysing the dynamics that shape human-animal relations, to examining the conflicts created by post-Independence projects of rural development and conservation - this volume touches upon the various aspects of environmental studies and juxtaposes them with social history, history of science and technology, and history of trade and culture.

Author : Mahesh Rangarajan,K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 8178243687

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India's environmental history by Mahesh Rangarajan,K. Sivaramakrishnan Pdf

Author : Mahesh Rangarajan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 8178244594

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Nature and Nation by Mahesh Rangarajan Pdf

Author : Arun Bandopadhyay
Publisher : Ratna Sagar
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9384092150

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Nature, Knowledge and Development: Critical Essays on the Environmental History of India by Arun Bandopadhyay Pdf

Environmental history is a broad field of research which explores the relationship between humans and nature and builds upon an extensive wealth of research dating back to the eighteenth century, if not earlier. The consequences of colonialism, industrialization and capitalist interventions in the environment have brought the colonized regions of South Asia into focus and made environmental history a field of great importance. Nature, Knowledge and Development delves deeply into historical research in order to exemplify theoretical claims of historical meta-narratives and to explain the present predicament of environmentalism. The essays included in this volume highlight the importance of comparative studies within the field of environmental history. The contributors address several issues relating to India's more prominent environmental history, placing them within the comparative frameworks of time, region, society and culture.