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An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India

The Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal

by Eric A. Strahorn (Author)
©2009 Monographs X, 168 Pages
Series: Postcolonial Studies, Volume 2

Summary

An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India is a study of an increasingly important part of the Indian landscape. It examines the social process of accelerated land use as it has been affected by political and epidemiological factors and pays particular attention to the shifting representations of the landscape. As a contribution to the literature of the environmental history of India, this book examines the questions of agricultural colonization, wildlife conservation, and disease control.

Details

Pages
X, 168
Year
2009
ISBN (PDF)
9781453904336
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433105807
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0433-6
Language
English
Publication date
2009 (June)
Keywords
Environmental History Tarai Tiger Conservation Green Revolution India Landnutzung Landwirtschaftsentwicklung Wildtiermanagement Geschichte 1947-1975 Environmental History, Tarai, Tiger Conservation,
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2009. X, 168 pp.

Biographical notes

Eric A. Strahorn (Author)

The Author: Eric A. Strahorn received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Iowa. He currently teaches South Asian and world history at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. He is a contributing editor to the Asian Studies Newsletter, and is the author of several papers on South Asian history.

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