How do we recognize and understand the interactions between nature, nationness, and nationalism? How is nature appropriated by politics when asserting identity, interests, and rights? Drawing from South Asia's varying regions, the essays in this pathbreaking volume answer such questions. They range in time from early colonial history to the ends of the twentieth century, and their research locations extend from north-west Pakistan to eastern Bangladesh, and from ...
Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories and Contests Over Nature