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This Fissured Land, Second Edition: An Ecological History of India by Ramachandra Guha, Madhav Gadgil (Paperback, 2014)

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Product Description : This Fissured Land first published in 1992 presents an interpretative history ecological history of the Indian subcontinent It offers a theory of ecological prudence and profligacy testing this theory across the wide sweep of South Asian history The book especially focuses on the use and abuse of forest resources In Part One the authors present a general theory of ecological history Part Two provides a fresh interpretative history of premodern India along with an ecological interpretation of the caste system In Part Three the authors draw upon a huge wealth of source material in their socioecological analysis of the modes of resource use introduced in India by the BritishThe Second Edition comes with a new Preface by the authors

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This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an interpretative history ecological history of the Indian subcontinent. It offers a theory of ecological prudence and profligacy, testing this theory across the wide sweep of South Asian history. The book especially focuses on the use and abuse of forest resources. In Part One, the authors present a general theory of ecological history. Part Two provides a fresh interpretative history of pre-modern India along with an ecological interpretation of the caste system. In Part Three, the authors draw upon a huge wealth of source material in their socio-ecological analysis of the modes of resource use introduced in India by the British. The Second Edition comes with a new Preface by the authors.