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This compendium of 13 papers, presented at an international seminar, organized at Jadavpur University, attempts to examine the different issues concerning social systems, science and environment, with special reference to India. Taking a close look at the status of ecology and technology from ancient to modern India, it discusses at length the geographical landscape and migration of technological tradition, the environmental disturbances occurred in India and ...
Environmental history has gripped the attention of scholars all over the world. In this penultimate round of struggle for co-existence between man and nature, we have arrived at the last stage of survival strategy. Therefore, environmental issues has come to the forefront of all disciplines. History coordinates the views from the past to the future. It provides the hindsight to this emerging area of disconcert to mankind. Were this stages of environmental ...
The crisis of the present environment is to be understood only from our perceptions of what happened in the past. This book on environmental history is an attempt to give some historical information on the different facets of environment in India. It will bridge the gap between environmental studies and history.