Modern Forests (Record no. 70617)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780804745567
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : International Book Distributors
Distributor address : Flat No. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi
Bill Number : 123036
Bill Date : 22/07/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 634.909 SIV
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sivaramakrishnan, K.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Modern Forests
Remainder of title : Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / K. Sivaramakrishnan.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Stanford
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Stanford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1999.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxvii, 341 p.
Other physical details : ill.
Dimensions ; 23 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2531
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors that influenced landscape change. Through a cultural analysis of powerful landscape representations, Modern Forests reveals the contention, debates, and uncertainty that persisted for two hundred years of colonial rule as forests were identified, classified, and brought under different regimes of control and were transformed to serve a variety of imperial and local interests. The author examines the regionally varied conditions that generated widely different kinds of forest management systems, and the ways in which certain ideas and forces became dominant at various times. Through this emphasis on regional socio-political processes and ecologies, the author offers a new way to write environmental history. Instead of making a sharp distinction between third-world and first-world experiences in forest management, the book suggests a potential for cross-continental comparative studies through regional analyses. The book also offers an approach to historical anthropology that does not make apolitical separations between foreign and indigenous views of the world of nature, insisting instead that different cultural repertoires for discerning the natural, and using it, can be fashioned out of shared concerns within and across social groups. The politics of such cultural construction, the book argues, must be studied through institutional histories and ethnographies of statemaking. In conclusion, the author offers a genealogy of development as it can be traced from forest conservation in colonial eastern India.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Forest management
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Forest policy
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Bengal.
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name K. Sivaramakrishnan.
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