ISBN:
9781000779806
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (206 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies v.48
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
307.760954
Keywords:
Cities and towns-Growth
;
Environmental policy-South Asia-History
;
Human ecology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book studies a historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian Studies, world history and environmental history.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 Urban Pasts, Contemporary Legacies -- 1 Partition, the Environment, and the Early Post-Independence Development of Lahore -- 2 Written in Stone: Political Geologies of Small-Town India -- 3 A Shift From the "Devotional" to the "Natural" in Nineteenth-Century Lahore's Art Education -- 4 Building With a Conscience? Heritage, Design and Urban Space in Bombay -- PART 2 The City and River Management -- 5 The Hooghly River and the Incomplete Mastery of the Natural World in British Colonial India -- 6 Political Economy of Dams in Colonial and Early Postcolonial India -- 7 Locating the Riparian Commons in Eastern South Asia: A Translocal Perspective -- PART 3 Urban Growth in a Fragile Environment -- 8 Evolving Islandscapes in a Changing Climate: Male' City, Maldives -- 9 Analysing Human-Environment Coexistence: Urban Development and the Colombo Wetland Complex -- 10 Vanishing Rains: Deforestation, Declining Rainfall, and Desiccation in North East India With Special Reference to Cherrapunji, the "Rainiest Spot on the Globe -- 11 Reconstructing Thimphu: Balancing Tradition and Transition in Bhutan -- Index.
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