| Description |
xxvii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Glossary -- Abbreviations -- 1. Statemaking and environmental change -- Part I. Intimations of a Governmental Rationality at the Margins of Empire: 2. British entry into the jungle Mahals -- 3. Geographies of empire: the transition -- 4. Visibility, estimation, and laying down -- Part II. Formal Structure of Forest Management: 5. Varied regimes of restriction and lumbering -- 6. Forests in a regional Agrarian economy -- 7. Nature's science: fire and forest regeneration -- 8. Science and conservation: hybrid -- 9. Conclusion -- Note on primary sources -- Select bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
"This book has been prepared from the first volume of a two-volume historical and ethnographic study on statemaking and forest management in Bengal, completed as a PhD dissertation for the Department of Anthropology, Yale University"--Pref |
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Statemaking and environmental change in colonial Eastern India |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ([290]-323) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Forest management -- Social aspects -- India.
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Forest management -- India -- History.
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Forest management -- India -- Bengal.
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Forest policy -- India -- Bengal.
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Forests and forestry -- India -- History.
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| LC no. |
99072814 |
| ISBN |
0804735638 |
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9780804735636 |
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