Urban development and environmental history in modern South Asia. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ian Talbot, Amit Ranjan.
• Editors: Talbot, Ian; (Researcher on South Asia), Ranjan, Amit
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Ian Talbot and Amit Ranjan Part 1: Urban Pasts and Contemporary Legacies 1. Partition, the Environment and the Early Post-Independence Development of Lahore, Ian Talbot; 2. Written in Stone: Political Geologies of Small-town India, Thomas Crowley; 3. A Shift from the ‘Devotional’ to the 'Natural’ in 19th Century Lahore’s Art Education, Tahir Kamran; 4. Building with a Conscience? Heritage, Design and Urban Space in Bombay, Manjiri Kamat Part 2: The City and River Management 5. The Hooghly River and the Incomplete Mastery of the Natural World in British Colonial India, Robert Ivermee; 6. Political Economy of Large Dams in Colonial and Early Post-Colonial India, Amit Ranjan; 7. Rivers in Postcolonial North-eastern South Asia: Contradictions of the Commons, Iftekhar Iqbal Part 3: Urban Growth in a Fragile Environment 8. Evolving islandscapes in a changing climate: Male’ City, Maldives, Mizna Mohamed and Mohamed Inaz; 9. Analysing Human-Environment Coexistence: Urban Development and the Colombo Wetland Complex, Dennis Mombauer and Vositha Wijenayake; 10. Vanishing Rains: Deforestation, Declining Rainfall, and Desiccation in North East India with Special Reference to Cherrapunji, the ‘Rainiest Spot on the Globe’, Sajal Nag; 11. Reconstructing Thimphu: Balancing tradition and transition in Bhutan, Susan Walcott; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 307.760954; Urbanization -- South Asia -- History; Cities and towns -- South Asia -- Growth; Human ecology -- South Asia -- History; Environmental policy -- South Asia -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000779813; 9781000779806; 9781003300946
• Related ISBNs: 9781032292953
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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