An environmental history of postcolonial North India
Subtitle: the Himalayan Tarai in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal
By: Eric A. Strahorn.
Series: Postcolonial studies -- v. 2
Publisher: Peter Lang Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781433105807
Subjects: Land use -- Social aspects -- Tarai (India and Nepal) -- History; Land use -- Political aspects -- Tarai (India and Nepal) -- History; Land use -- Economic aspects -- Tarai (India and Nepal) -- History; Landscape -- India -- History; Postcolonialism -- Environmental aspects -- India; Tarai (India and Nepal) -- Environmental conditions; Tarai (India and Nepal) -- History; Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Environmental conditions; Uttaranchal (India) -- Environmental conditions; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ecology of the Tarai; title: The production of exoticism; title: G.B. Pant and the U.P. government; title: Realizing the ideal; title: Outside the official paradigm; title: The changing Tarai landscape.