Velayutham Saravanan

Broschiertes Buch

Colonialism and Wildlife

An Environmental History of Modern India

Beschreibung

This book delves into the history of the commercialization of wildlife in India. It examines the colonial strategies that were employed in the commodification of wildlife resources specifically for lucrative domestic and international trade during the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Autor

Velayutham Saravanan is Professor, Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India. Earlier, he had a short stint at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, as Director of School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies (SOITS). He was also associated with the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad and Giri Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lucknow. He is the author of Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India, 1792-1947 (2017); Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India (2018), Water and Environmental History of Modern India (2020), Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development (2022), Political Economy of Development and Environment in Modern India (2023) and Political Economy of Modern South India (Forthcoming). He was also the Editor of History and Sociology of South Asia, and had published several articles and presented papers at both national and international academic fora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781032547718
• ISBN-10: 1032547715
• Artikelnr.: 72107896