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Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
2023
Overview
The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human
environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha
argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years
when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to
their agendas across Asia. Ecologies of Empire in South Asia,
1400-1900 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 scrutinizing
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.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Subject
ISBN
9780295751481, 0295751487, 9780295751498, 0295751495, 9780295751504, 0295751509
