Playing with Nature
Subtitle: History and Politics of Environment in North-East India
By: Sajal Nag
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781315271880
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Congresses; Nature; Effect of human beings on; Environmental protection; Environmental conditions; Environnement; Congrès; Dégradation; Homme; Influence sur la nature; Protection; Ecology
Description: "North East India is called nature's gift to India. It is mountainous, thickly forested, nourished by massive rainfall, has massive rivers, has a diverse wildlife, inhabited a number of forest dwellers called tribes who cherished environmentalist ethos. The region has been experiencing environmental depletion which was a result of colonial policies, exploitation of its ecological and mineral resources, large scale trans-border immigration and settlement of people, establishment of the plantation industry through deforestation and the dependence of the dairy industry on grazing and other factors. This books depicts the precariousness of the environmental situation and traces the history and politics of such degeneration with a view to raise the consciousness of the people of the region towards their environment and save it from further aggravation."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Tittle; Dedication; Tittle Page; Copyright Page; Table of Content ; Preface; Introduction; 1. India's North-East: An Enigmatic Absence in History and Cartography; 2. Marsh, Rice and Faith: Aspects of Environmental and Religious Changes in the Early Medieval Surma-Barak Valley; 3. Man, Nature and State in Pre-Colonial Kachar; 4. Environment and War: Small Wars in North-East India, 1845-1913; 5. The Coming of British Forestry in Assam in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: Initiatives and Problems.; title: 6. The Ecological and Social Watershed: Colonial Intervention and Forest Use in Assam7. Forests, Fields and Pasture: Environmental and Revenue Debates of Land Usage in Colonial Assam in 1910-1920; 8. Colonialism and Deforestation in Naga Hills; 9. State-Science, Hegemony and Shifting the Cultivator: Contesting the 'Anti-modernity' Discourse on Shifting Cultivation in South Asia; 10. Land Use/Land Cover Change and its Impact on Climate in the Barak Valley, Assam; 11. Rain, Rain, Come Again: History of Rainfall, Deforestation and Water Scarcity in Cherrapunji, the Rainiest Spot in the Globe.; title: 12. Challenging Times, Challenged Body: Decolonization, Displacement and Disease among East Pakistani Refugees in South Assam, 1947-195413. The Empire as a World of Sport: Aspects of Hunting in Colonial Assam, c. 1850-1900.; 14. Colonizing the Wild: British Policies towards Wildlife in Assam, 1874-1947; 15. Encountering Floods: Colonial State and the Flood of 1916 in the Surma-Barak Valley of Assam; 16. Environmental Impact of the Great Earthquakes of 1897 and 1950 on North-East India; 17. Mythology as a Protest Narrative: A Lepcha Tale; List of Contributors; Index.