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Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India » (New Edition)
Authors: Arun Agrawal (Editor), K. Sivaramakrishnan (Editor), James C. Scott (Contribution by), Haripriya Rangan
ISBN-13: 9780822325741, ISBN-10: 0822325748
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People, also published by Duke University Press.
K. Sivaramakrishnan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington and author of Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India.
Book Synopsis
An interdisciplinary exploration of the connections between the politics of environmental degradation and agrarian life in India.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Agrarian Environments | 1 | |
| State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttrakhand Himalaya, 1818-1947 | 23 | |
| Colonial Influences on Property, Community, and Land Use in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh | 47 | |
| Environmental Alarm and Institutionalized Conservation in Himachal Pradesh, 1865-1994 | 68 | |
| State Power and Agricultural Transformation in Tamil Nadu | 86 | |
| Famine in the Landscape: Imagining Hunger in South Asian History, 1860-1990 | 107 | |
| Economic Rents and Natural Resources: Commons and Conflicts in Premodern India | 132 | |
| Identities and Livelihoods: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nature in a South Bihar Village | 147 | |
| Regimes of Control, Strategies of Access: Politics of Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India | 170 | |
| Pastoralism and Community in Rajasthan: Interrogating Categories of Arid Lands Development | 191 | |
| Labored Landscapes: Agro-ecological Change in Central Gujarat, India | 216 | |
| Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia | 251 | |
| Cathecting the Natural | 265 | |
| Bibliography | 277 | |
| Contributors | 303 | |
| Index | 307 |
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