Ecologies of Empire In South Asia (Record no. 62715)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9788178246772
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address 4794/23, 1st Floor, Opp.-Eye7, Ansari Road, New Delhi
Bill Number TB3375
Bill Date 7/1/2025
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Classification number 954.14 GUH
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Guha, Sumit.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Ecologies of Empire In South Asia
Remainder of title : 1400-1900.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Sumit Guha.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Permanent Black
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2023.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 243p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 487
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories: so Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of 500 years when successive empires across Asia struggled to harness lands and peoples to their agendas. Guha compares the practices of the Mughal and British empires to demonstrate how their fluctuating capacity for domination was imbricated in the formation of environmental knowledge itself. The establishment of imperial control transforms local knowledge of the world into the aggregated information that reproduces centralized power over it. That is the political ecology that reshapes entire biomes. Animals and plants are translocated, human communities are displaced or destroyed. Some species proliferate, others disappear. But these state projects are overlaid upon the many local and regional geographies made by sacred cosmologies and local sites, pilgrimage routes and river fords, hot springs and fluctuating aquifers, hunting ranges and nesting grounds, notable trees and striking rocks. Guha uncovers these ecological histories by scrutinising little-used archival sources. His historically based political ecology demonstrates how the biomes of a vast subcontinent were changed by struggles to make and to resist empire. About the Author: Sumit Guha is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. His many books include History and Collective Memory in South Asia (Permanent Black, 2019), and Beyond Caste (Permanent Black, 2017).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ecologies
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Human environments
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mughal and British empires
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Personal name Sumit Guha
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 21/01/2025 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 487.00 1 1 954.14 GUH 30610 29/11/2026 26/09/2026 26/09/2026 21/01/2025 Books
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