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Rangarajan, Mahesh,

Nature and nation : essays on environmental history / Mahesh Rangarajan. - xiii, 346 p ; 22 cm.

Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgements;
1 Introduction: Issues in the Writing of Environmental History;
I. Nature's Past;
2 The Raj and the Natural World: The War Against 'Dangerous Beasts' in Colonial India;
3 From Princely Symbol to Conservation Icon: A Political History of the Lion in India;
II. Nature's Present;
4 Gandhi's Notion of Ahimsa and the Human-Nature Relationship;
5 Striving for a Balance: Nature, Power, Science, and India's Indira Gandhi 1917-1984;
6 Of Nature and Nationalism: Rethinking India's Nehru;
7 Five Nature Writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Slim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and
M. Krishnan;
III. Nature's Future;
8 The Politics of Ecology: The Debate on Wildlife and People in India 1970-1995;
9 Parks, Politics, and History: Conservation Dilemmas in Africa;
10 Contesting Conservation: Nature, Politics, and History in Contemporary India.



ISBN: 9788178245003

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human ecology--History.--India

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--Environmental conditions--History.

Dewey Class. No.: 304.20954 RAN