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
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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.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
The completion of this infrastructure leads to lasting controversy over the severe deterioration in the flow of the Ganges and the decay of the river as an inland waterway.
The Sharda Canal is the last major British colonial irrigation project completed in the United Provinces of India.
The passage of the first forest regulations in India under British rule leads to the establishment of the Imperial Forest Service.
As many as ten million people die as a result of the severe famine.
