TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gadgil, Madhav
AU  - Guha, Ramachandra
TI  - This fissured land : an ecological history of India
SN  - 9780198077442
U1  - 304.20954 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Madras,Singapore etc
PB  - Oxford Uni. Press
KW  -  
KW  - Social sciences--Research
KW  - E�cologie humaine -- Inde -- Histoire
KW  - Foresterie -- Inde -- Histoire
KW  - Ressources naturelles -- Inde -- Histoire
KW  - India
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Anthropology
N1  - List of Tables  and Figures   xi
Preface to the Second Edition  xiii
Acknowledgements    xviii
Prologue: Prudence and Profligacy   1
PART ONE: A THEORY OF ECOLOGICAL HISTORY   7
1. Habitats in Human History   9
PART TWO: TOWARDS A CULTURAL ECOLOGY OF PRE-MODERN INDIA   59
2. Forest and Fire   61
3. Caste and Conservation   79
PART THREE: ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL CONFLICT IN MODERN INDIA   97
4. Conquest and Control    99
5. The Fight for the Forest    128
6. Biomass for Business  159
7. Competing Claims on the Commons   189
8. Cultures in Conflict    210
Bibliography   217
Index   235


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