Nature and the Orient: The Environmental History of South and Southeast Asia
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
A closer examination of India’s monetary history reveals that there exist many similarities between the effects of structural adjustment programs and those of monetary disturbances in the last quarter of the nineteenth century due to the depreciation of the rupee.
This article engages with such questions by focusing on the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary of Kerala in southern India, arguing that a reconceptualization of both “culture” and “nature” will be necessary in order to prevent the concept of biocultural diversity from appearing as just another form of “green neocolonization” or “eco-imperialism.”
This article looks at India’s colonial history and the effect that recent economic and political changes have had on the country’s relationship with wild animals.
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
Bengal’s essential character as a fluid landscape was changed during the colonial times through legal interventions that were aimed at creating permanent boundaries between land and water, with land given priority.
For a long time, the British Empire saw the climate and the regional political strongholds of northeast India as insuperable obstacles to conquest.
Explores how the relationship of Adivasis to their surroundings was gradually reshaped under colonial rule in Bengal, leading to increased sedentarization of Adivasis through the extension of cultivation.
Looks at the changing governance practices towards agro-ecological resources and the political response that it received from the agrarian community in colonial eastern Bengal.
Looking at the pastoral Toda people of the Wenlock Downs, this paper considers grassland transformations in the Nilgiris, in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.