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This Fissured Land An Ecological History of India

by: Gadgil, Madhav; Guha, Ramachandra

This Fissured Land An Ecological History of India

by: Gadgil, Madhav; Guha, Ramachandra

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Copyright: 02/17/1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Using a general theory of ecological history, the authors provide a fresh interpretation of India's history, including an ecological account of the caste system and a sociological analysis of resource use. Madhav Gadgil, a professor of ecological sciences, and Ramachandra Guha, a professor of sociology, present in this volume a collaborative perspective on the subcontinent which is rare, pathbreaking, and long overdue.

Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Prologue: Prudence and Profligacy	p. 1
A Theory of Ecological History	p. 9
Habitats in Human History	p. 11
Modes of Production and Modes of Resource Use	p. 11
Four Historical Modes	p. 14
Gathering	p. 15
Simple Rules of Thumb	p. 23
Pastoralism	p. 27
Settled Cultivation	p. 30
The Industrial Mode	p. 39
Conflict Between and Within Modes	p. 53
Intra-Modal Conflict	p. 57
Recapitulation	p. 64
Note on Population	p. 67
Towards a Cultural Ecology of Pre-Modern India	p. 69
Forest and Fire	p. 71
Geological History	p. 71
Prudent Predators	p. 72
Neolithic Revolution	p. 76
River-valley Civilizations	p. 77
Social Organization	p. 82
The Age of Empires	p. 85
Conservation from Above	p. 87
Caste and Conservation	p. 91
Resource Crunch	p. 91
Conservation from Below	p. 93
An Eclectic Belief System	p. 103
The Village and the State	p. 106
Conclusion	p. 109
Ecological Change and Social Conflict in Modern India
Conquest and Control	p. 113
Colonialism as an Ecological Watershed	p. 116
The Early Onslaught on Forests	p. 118
An Early Environment Debate	p. 123
Forest Policy Upto 1947	p. 134
The Balance Sheet of Colonial Forestry	p. 140
The Fight for the Forest	p. 146
Hunter-gatherers: The Decline Towards Extinction	p. 148
The 'Problem' of Shifting Cultivation	p. 150
Settled Cultivators and the State	p. 158
Everyday Forms of Resistance: The Case of Jaunsar Bawar	p. 164
The Decline of the Artisanal Industry	p. 171
Conclusion: The Social Idiom of Protest	p. 174
The Mechanisms of Protest	p. 177
Biomass for Business	p. 181
Two Versions of Progress: Gandhi and the Modernizers	p. 181
Forests and Industrialization: Four Stages	p. 185
The Balance Sheet of Industrial Forestry	p. 193
Sequential Exploitation: A Process Whereby a Whole Flock of Geese Laying Golden Eggs is Massacred One by One	p. 197
The Profligacy of Scientific Forestry	p. 207
Competing Claims on the Commons	p. 215
Hunter-gatherers	p. 217
The Continuing 'Problem' of Shifting Cultivation	p. 218
The Changing Ecology of Settled Agriculture	p. 221
Claiming a Share of the Profits	p. 229
Wild Life Conservation: Animals Versus Humans	p. 232
Cultures in Conflict	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 267
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