Objective:
This course intends to acquaint the students with the new discipline of ecological and
environmental history. It intends to familiarize them with the relation between ecology and
human civilization with particular reference to post independence India. It also attempts to
bring the pupils to the understanding of the social and economic conflicts emerging due to
environmental factors.
Unit-1 1.01 : Emergence of Environmental History as a
Branch of History
1.02 : Mode of Resource Utilization: Gathering, Nomadic,
Pastoralism, Agricultural Mode and Industrial Mode;
Resource Use Patterns in Indian History
1.03 : Ecology and Environment, Ecosystem and
Population Interaction
1.04 : Geographical Background of the Indian
Subcontinent
Unit-2 2.01 : Community interaction with the
Environment in the Early period in India,
Indus Valley Civilization and its decline:
Environmental factors
2.02 : Use of iron implements; Agricultural Expansion and
Deforestation in the Gangetic Valley
2.03 : Expansion of Agricultural in Early Medieval and Medieval
India, Technological changes and Agricultural productions in
Medieval period, Forest and the pastoral communities in the
Medieval period
2.04 : Water as a Resource in Ancient and
Medieval India
Unit-3 3.01 : British Forest Policy in India: Impact of
European Forestry Tradition
3.02 : Making of British Forest Policy, British
Forest Policies up to 1947
3.03 : Forest Legislations : Forest Acts of 1878
and 1927
3.04 : Impact of British Forest Policy:
Deforestation and Ecological change in
India
3.05 : Commercial Exploitation of Forest
Products; Impact of Railway Construction
on Forestry
Unit-4 4.01 : Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru’s view on
Environment
4.02 : Conservation Policies in Post independence
Period; Social Forestry
4.03 : Environmental movements: Chipko Movement, Narmada
Bachao Andolan and other Environmental Movements
4.04 : Dams and Mines: Problems of displacement, Loss of
Livelihood and Problems of Rehabilitation
Unit-5 5.01 : People’s Movements and Resistance against the
Colonial Forest Policies
5.02 : British Forest Policies in North- East India; Environmental
and Socio-Economic Consequences of Colonial Forest
Policies; Plantation Economy and Forestry
5.03 : Flood and Soil Erosion in the Brahmaputra
Valley
5.04 : History of Conservation Strategies in North
East India
5.05 : Hill area and Shifting Cultivation, Problems of
Shifting Cultivation
Suggested Reading:
Agarwal, D.P : Man and Environment in India through the Ages
Arnold, D and R. Guha : Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental
History of South Asia
Bhattacharya, D.K. : Ecology and Social Formation in Ancient History
Cederlof, Gunnel and K. Sivaramakrishnan (eds.) : Ecological Nationalisms
Chakrabarti, Ranjan, (ed.) : Situating Environmental History
: Does Environmental History Matter? Shikar, Subsistence and
the Sciences
Dhavalikar, M.K. : Environment and Culture: A Historical Perspective
Gadgil, M and R. Guha : The Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India
Gadgil, M and R. Guha : Ecology and Equity
Gadgil, M and R. Guha : Use and Abuse of Nature
Grone, R. Damodaran, V. and S. Sangwar : Nature and the Orient : The Environmental
History of South and South-East Asia
Guha, Sumit, : Environment and Ethnicity in India 1200-1991
Guha, A. : Medieval and Early Colonial Assam: Society, polity Economy
Guha, R. : The Unquiet woods, Ecological Change and Peasants Resistance in the Himalaya
: Environmentalism A Global History
Handique, R. : British Forest Policy in Assam
Martinez-Alies, J and Guha R. : Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and
South
Pathak, Akhileswar : Law, Strategies, Ideologies: Legislating Forests in Colonial
India
Rahman, A., : History of Indian Science, Technology and Culture. A.D
1000-1800
Skaria, Ajay. : Hybrid Histories: Forest, Frontiers and Wildness in Western
India
This course intends to acquaint the students with the new discipline of ecological and
environmental history. It intends to familiarize them with the relation between ecology and
human civilization with particular reference to post independence India. It also attempts to
bring the pupils to the understanding of the social and economic conflicts emerging due to
environmental factors.
Unit-1 1.01 : Emergence of Environmental History as a
Branch of History
1.02 : Mode of Resource Utilization: Gathering, Nomadic,
Pastoralism, Agricultural Mode and Industrial Mode;
Resource Use Patterns in Indian History
1.03 : Ecology and Environment, Ecosystem and
Population Interaction
1.04 : Geographical Background of the Indian
Subcontinent
Unit-2 2.01 : Community interaction with the
Environment in the Early period in India,
Indus Valley Civilization and its decline:
Environmental factors
2.02 : Use of iron implements; Agricultural Expansion and
Deforestation in the Gangetic Valley
2.03 : Expansion of Agricultural in Early Medieval and Medieval
India, Technological changes and Agricultural productions in
Medieval period, Forest and the pastoral communities in the
Medieval period
2.04 : Water as a Resource in Ancient and
Medieval India
Unit-3 3.01 : British Forest Policy in India: Impact of
European Forestry Tradition
3.02 : Making of British Forest Policy, British
Forest Policies up to 1947
3.03 : Forest Legislations : Forest Acts of 1878
and 1927
3.04 : Impact of British Forest Policy:
Deforestation and Ecological change in
India
3.05 : Commercial Exploitation of Forest
Products; Impact of Railway Construction
on Forestry
Unit-4 4.01 : Mahatma Gandhi and Nehru’s view on
Environment
4.02 : Conservation Policies in Post independence
Period; Social Forestry
4.03 : Environmental movements: Chipko Movement, Narmada
Bachao Andolan and other Environmental Movements
4.04 : Dams and Mines: Problems of displacement, Loss of
Livelihood and Problems of Rehabilitation
Unit-5 5.01 : People’s Movements and Resistance against the
Colonial Forest Policies
5.02 : British Forest Policies in North- East India; Environmental
and Socio-Economic Consequences of Colonial Forest
Policies; Plantation Economy and Forestry
5.03 : Flood and Soil Erosion in the Brahmaputra
Valley
5.04 : History of Conservation Strategies in North
East India
5.05 : Hill area and Shifting Cultivation, Problems of
Shifting Cultivation
Suggested Reading:
Agarwal, D.P : Man and Environment in India through the Ages
Arnold, D and R. Guha : Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental
History of South Asia
Bhattacharya, D.K. : Ecology and Social Formation in Ancient History
Cederlof, Gunnel and K. Sivaramakrishnan (eds.) : Ecological Nationalisms
Chakrabarti, Ranjan, (ed.) : Situating Environmental History
: Does Environmental History Matter? Shikar, Subsistence and
the Sciences
Dhavalikar, M.K. : Environment and Culture: A Historical Perspective
Gadgil, M and R. Guha : The Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India
Gadgil, M and R. Guha : Ecology and Equity
Gadgil, M and R. Guha : Use and Abuse of Nature
Grone, R. Damodaran, V. and S. Sangwar : Nature and the Orient : The Environmental
History of South and South-East Asia
Guha, Sumit, : Environment and Ethnicity in India 1200-1991
Guha, A. : Medieval and Early Colonial Assam: Society, polity Economy
Guha, R. : The Unquiet woods, Ecological Change and Peasants Resistance in the Himalaya
: Environmentalism A Global History
Handique, R. : British Forest Policy in Assam
Martinez-Alies, J and Guha R. : Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and
South
Pathak, Akhileswar : Law, Strategies, Ideologies: Legislating Forests in Colonial
India
Rahman, A., : History of Indian Science, Technology and Culture. A.D
1000-1800
Skaria, Ajay. : Hybrid Histories: Forest, Frontiers and Wildness in Western
India
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