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028			_aTechnical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b4794/23, 1st Floor, Opp.-Eye7, Ansari Road, New Delhi _cTB3375 _d7/1/2025
082			_a954.14 GUH
100			_aGuha, Sumit.
245			_aEcologies of Empire In South Asia _b: 1400-1900. _c/ Sumit Guha.
260			_a, New Delhi _b: Permanent Black _c, 2023.
300			_axvii, 243p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aThe 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).
650			_aEcologies
650			_aHuman environments
650			_aMughal and British empires
700			_aSumit Guha
942			_cBOOK
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