The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia

INTRODUCTION BY DEEPAK KUMAR, VINITA DAMODARAN AND ROHAN D'SOUZA PART I. ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATIONS AND EMPIRE Chapter 1. The Wild Andamans: Island Imageries and Colonial Encounter by Aparna Vaidik Chapter 2. Walter Sherwill and the Visual Representation of Colonial Authority in Mid-nineteenth Century India by Daniel Rycroft PART II. MAKING NATURAL RESOURCES FOR EMPIRE Chapter 3. Imperial Design: The Royal Indian Engineering College and Public Works in Colonial India by Christopher V. Hill Chapter 4. Redeeming Wood by Destroying the Forest: Shola, Plantations and Colonial Conservancy on the Nilgiris in the Nineteenth Century by Deborah Sutton Chapter 5. Making Garden, Erasing Jungle: The Tea Enterprise in Colonial Assam by Jayeeta Sharma PART III. IMPACTS AND NEGOTIATIONS: THE EMPIRE'S ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS Chapter 6. Taming Liquid Gold' and Dam Technology: A Study of the Godavari Anicut by B. Eswara Rao Chapter 7. Flood Control in North Bihar: An Environmental History from the 'Ground-Level' (1850-1954) by Praveen Singh PART IV. CULTURES RESHAPE EMPIRE Chapter 8. The Environmental and Cultural Legacy of Colonial Hydraulic Projects in Two South Indian Deltas by Peter L. Schmitthenner Chapter 9. Collaboration and Conflict: Environmental Legacies and the Ho of Kolhan (1700 - 1918) by Asoka Kumar Sen PART V.THE LONG ECOLOGICAL SHADOWS OF EMPIRE Chapter 10. Forests at the Edge of Empire: The Case of Nepal by D. G. Donovan Chapter 11. Forest Policy and Ecological Change in Hyderabad State (1867-1948) by S. Abdul Thaha NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS