Colonialism and Wildlife

An Environmental History of Modern India

Velayutham Saravanan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2024
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-032-54771-8 (ISBN)

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This book delves into the history of the commercialization of wildlife in India. It examines the colonial strategies that were employed in the commodification of wildlife resources specifically for lucrative domestic and international trade during the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It looks at how and why the colonial administration paid special emphasis on hunting and game sports which largely contributed to commodity capitalism in the form of taxidermy and wildlife exports. The author also critically analyses the wildlife laws and regulations promulgated by the colonial administration, such as the elephant protection act, birds and fisheries act, the forest acts, and studies how they have systematically brought wildlife under state control with a commercial motive.

An important contribution to the environmental history of India, this book is an essential interdisciplinary resource for scholars and researchers of history, colonialism, wildlife studies, economic history, ecological studies, environmental history, Indian history, South Asian studies, and development studies.

Velayutham Saravanan is Professor, Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India. Earlier, he had a short stint at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, as Director of School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies (SOITS). He was also associated with the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad and Giri Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lucknow. He is the author of Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India, 1792-1947 (2017); Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India (2018), Water and Environmental History of Modern India (2020), Environmental History of Modern India: Land, Population, Technology and Development (2022), Political Economy of Development and Environment in Modern India (2023) and Political Economy of Modern South India (Forthcoming). He was also the Editor of History and Sociology of South Asia, and had published several articles and presented papers at both national and international academic fora.

1. Introduction 2. Shrinking Space for Wildlife 3. Conflict between Human, Cattle and Wildlife 4. Law for Wildlife Protection or for Game 5. Colonialism and Commercialisation of Wildlife 6. Colonial Strategies on Game and Commodifying Wildlife 7. onclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	04.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	23 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-54771-5 / 1032547715
ISBN-13	978-1-032-54771-8 / 9781032547718
Zustand	Neuware