Nature and Nation: Essays on Environmental History (Record no. 49268)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788178245003
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 304.209 RAN
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rangarajan, Mahesh
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Nature and Nation: Essays on Environmental History
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Permanent Black
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2015
Place of publication, distribution, etc Ranikhet
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 346
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Writing India’s environmental history is not easy. The country’s territorial vastness, geographical complexity, and unusual biodiversity make the task difficult. Relatively few scholars have shown the historical range and intellectual depth required to tackle the area compellingly and with sophistication.<br/><br/>Mahesh Rangarajan is among the foremost scholars in this field. The papers and books he has written or edited over more than two decades have helped craft and enlarge Indian environmental thought as a whole. They have established his reputation as a stimulating and wide-ranging historian-thinker in the discipline.<br/><br/>The present collection comprises ten essays showcasing the core of Rangarajan’s thought and interventions. They include comparisons of the subcontinent with the world beyond, most specially with societies in Asia and Africa once under Western domination. They also include studies of specific historical conjunctures under regimes such as those of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, Jomo Kenyatta and Julius Nyerere.<br/><br/>Environmental shifts and continuities in a massive Asian society and polity are the central focus of this book. It discusses events and processes to show how specific environmental changes happened. It discusses the global ecological dimensions of Indian transformations. Economy and ecology, state-making and identity, nature and nation converge and cohere to make this a book for every thinking person.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human ecology-India-History
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element India-Environmental conditions-History
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