An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First CenturyIndia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh contain one-fifth of humanity, are home to many biodiversity hotspots, and are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By surveying their environmental history, we can gain major insights into the causes and implications of the Indian subcontinent's current conditions. This accessible new survey begins roughly 100 million years ago, when continental drift moved India from the South Pole and across the Indian Ocean, forming the Himalayan Mountains and creating monsoons. Coverage continues to the twenty-first century, taking readers beyond independence from colonial rule. The new nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have produced rising populations and have stretched natural resources, even as they have become increasingly engaged with climate change. To understand the region's current and future pressing issues, Michael H. Fisher argues that we must engage with the long and complex history of interactions among its people, land, climate, flora, and fauna. |
Contents
Locating and Shaping Indias Physical Environment | 11 |
Indus and Vedic Relationships with Indian Environments | 32 |
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1a and 3 1b Clay impressions from Indus seals | 38 |
The Environment and ForestDweller Late Vedic Hindu | 49 |
1 | 51 |
Insiders Jewish Christian and Muslim Immigrants and | 77 |
The Mughal Empire 15261707 | 93 |
Basin 2018 | 185 |
India Pakistan and Bangladesh from Stockholm to | 195 |
India Pakistan and Bangladesh into the TwentyFirst | 222 |
energy plants | 238 |
National Subcontinental and Global Issues in South Asia | 248 |
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SUC E+ Getty Images | 253 |
Bibliographical Essay | 257 |
Mughal Imperial Fragmentation Regional State Rise | 115 |
Bihar from The Graphic 656 June 24 1882 p 640 | 130 |
The British Raj Mahatma Gandhi and Other Anti | 135 |
West and East Pakistan and India following Independence | 163 |
Bangladesh 2018 | 178 |
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