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Development And Deforestation

by Louiza Rodrigues
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789352903429
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: History
  • Publisher: Ratna Sagar
  • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 276
  • Original Price: INR 995.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 520 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): N/A

Based upon an in-depth empirical research, Development and Deforestation: Making of Urban Bombay studies the green dense in scaling the urbanization of Bombay in the nineteenth century. In particular, the book traces the principal consequences of the political intervention of the British in reshaping the ecological landscape of western India. In metamorphosing political intervention into the colonial control, the British botanists, conservators and military engineers undertook scores of forest surveys. Most significantly, timber trade dynamics were constructively utilized, which, regrettably resulted in a massive deforestation of western India. Such correlations between timbered commodity and urbanization, leading to subsequent deforestation are understudied. This book underscores the colonial psyche in articulating conservation policies and uncovers strategies that have been overlooked in the literature on the Environmental history of the Bombay Presidency. Drawing on rich archival sources and some significant secondary literature, this book traces the history of citified infrastructural developments in building warships, houses, bungalows, public buildings, railways and in the manufacturing of furniture in Bombay and the Bombay Presidency that eventually triggered urbanization. Correspondingly, the subject of deforestation of western India in three distinctive phases and ensuing afforestation, which fed the needs of the empire, is also highlighted.

Louiza Rodrigues is Professor and Head in the Department of History, Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai. Her area of specialization is Environmental History, Urban History, Genealogy, and Modern India. She has to her credit major research projects from the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute of Mumbai, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Mumbai University and Exeter University for Gulf Studies, UK. She has published more than 25 research papers and articles in books and journals of national and international repute. She is the leading author of two books on the history of the Seth and Sethna families, and, has recently published a monograph on Philip Anderson (1816-57).

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