Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

Sumit Guha, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

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English

University of Washington Press
18 August 2023

Asian history; Early history: c 500 to c 1450&1500; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Culture, Place, and Nature

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.

By: Sumit Guha
Foreword by: K. Sivaramakrishnan
Series edited by: K. Sivaramakrishnan
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 565g
ISBN: 9780295751481
ISBN 10: 0295751487
Series: Culture, Place, and Nature
Pages: 268
Publication Date: 18 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sumit Guha is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. His many books include History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000.