SHIFTING GROUND

Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction - those between geographical spaces (forest rivers farms) people (herders farmers townspeople) eras (colonial post-colonial) and so on. The limitations of these sharp divides are brought to the forefront when there is a critical engagement with the region's contested environ...See More