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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Census of India, 1991: Madras
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Madras District Gazetteers
Author: Madras (India : State)
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Category : Tamil Nadu (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Category : Tamil Nadu (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Madras District Gazetteers: Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur districts (erstwhile Chengalpattu District (pt. 1-2)
Author: Madras (India : State)
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Category : Tamil Nadu (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Category : Tamil Nadu (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy
Author: Dr. M. S. Bhatt
Publisher: Aakar Books
ISBN: 9788189833596
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Revised version of articles presented in two national seminars on national environment policy held during February and August 2007.
Publisher: Aakar Books
ISBN: 9788189833596
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Revised version of articles presented in two national seminars on national environment policy held during February and August 2007.
River Basin Trajectories
Author: François Molle
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 1845935381
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book contains 11 papers which cover a range of vital topics in the areas of water, agriculture, food security and ecosystems - the entire spectrum of developing and managing water in agriculture, from fully irrigated to fully rainfed lands. They are about people and society, why they decide to adopt certain practices and not others and, in particular, how water management can help poor people. They are about ecosystems - how agriculture affects ecosystems, the goods and services ecosystems provide for food security and how water can be managed to meet both food and environmental security objectives. This is the eighth book in the series.
Publisher: IWMI
ISBN: 1845935381
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book contains 11 papers which cover a range of vital topics in the areas of water, agriculture, food security and ecosystems - the entire spectrum of developing and managing water in agriculture, from fully irrigated to fully rainfed lands. They are about people and society, why they decide to adopt certain practices and not others and, in particular, how water management can help poor people. They are about ecosystems - how agriculture affects ecosystems, the goods and services ecosystems provide for food security and how water can be managed to meet both food and environmental security objectives. This is the eighth book in the series.
Caste, Knowledge, and Power
Author: Sunandan (Azim Premji University K. N., Bangalore India)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009273124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Analyses the relation between caste and knowledge practices and the exploration of the hierarchical colonial-Brahmanical forms of knowledge production.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009273124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Analyses the relation between caste and knowledge practices and the exploration of the hierarchical colonial-Brahmanical forms of knowledge production.
Water and the Environmental History of Modern India
Author: Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350130842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350130842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin? * Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment? * What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future? In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots.
Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India
Author: Velayutham Saravanan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811080526
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods. The book elaborately discusses the colonial plunder of forest resources up to the introduction of the Forest Act (1878) and focuses on how colonial policy impacted on the Indian environment, opening the floodgates of forest resources plunder, primarily for timber and to establish coffee and tea plantations. The book argues that even after the advent of conservation initiatives, commercial exploitation of forests continued unabated while stringent restrictions were imposed on the tribals, curtailing their access to the jungles. It details how post-colonial governments and populist votebank politics followed the same commercial forest policy till the 1980s without any major reform, exploiting forest resources and also encroaching upon forest lands, pushing the self-sustainable tribal economy to crumble. The book offers a comprehensive account of India’s environmental history during both colonial and post-colonial times, contributing to the current environmental policy debates in Asia.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811080526
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial and post-colonial periods. The book elaborately discusses the colonial plunder of forest resources up to the introduction of the Forest Act (1878) and focuses on how colonial policy impacted on the Indian environment, opening the floodgates of forest resources plunder, primarily for timber and to establish coffee and tea plantations. The book argues that even after the advent of conservation initiatives, commercial exploitation of forests continued unabated while stringent restrictions were imposed on the tribals, curtailing their access to the jungles. It details how post-colonial governments and populist votebank politics followed the same commercial forest policy till the 1980s without any major reform, exploiting forest resources and also encroaching upon forest lands, pushing the self-sustainable tribal economy to crumble. The book offers a comprehensive account of India’s environmental history during both colonial and post-colonial times, contributing to the current environmental policy debates in Asia.
Tamil Brahmans
Author: C. J. Fuller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615274X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Tamil Brahmans were a traditional, mainly rural, high-caste elite who have been transformed into a modern, urban, middle-class community since the late nineteenth century. Many Tamil Brahmans today are in professional and managerial occupations, such as engineering and information technology; most of them live in Chennai and other Tamilnadu towns, but others have migrated to the rest of India and overseas. This book, which is mainly based on the authors ethnographic research, describes and analyses this transformation. It is also a study of how and why the Tamil Brahmans privileged status within a hierarchical society has been perpetuated in the face of both a strong anti-Brahman movement in Tamilnadu, and a series of wider social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological changes that might have been expected to undermine their position completely. The major topics discussed include Brahman rural society, urban migration and urban ways of life, education and employment, the position of women, and religion and culture. The Tamil Brahmans class position, including the internal division into the upper- and lower-middle classes, and the process of class reproduction, are examined closely to analyze the congruence between Tamil Brahmanhood and middle classness, which as comparison with other Brahman and non-Brahman groups shows is highly unusual in contemporary India."
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022615274X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Tamil Brahmans were a traditional, mainly rural, high-caste elite who have been transformed into a modern, urban, middle-class community since the late nineteenth century. Many Tamil Brahmans today are in professional and managerial occupations, such as engineering and information technology; most of them live in Chennai and other Tamilnadu towns, but others have migrated to the rest of India and overseas. This book, which is mainly based on the authors ethnographic research, describes and analyses this transformation. It is also a study of how and why the Tamil Brahmans privileged status within a hierarchical society has been perpetuated in the face of both a strong anti-Brahman movement in Tamilnadu, and a series of wider social, cultural, economic, political, and ideological changes that might have been expected to undermine their position completely. The major topics discussed include Brahman rural society, urban migration and urban ways of life, education and employment, the position of women, and religion and culture. The Tamil Brahmans class position, including the internal division into the upper- and lower-middle classes, and the process of class reproduction, are examined closely to analyze the congruence between Tamil Brahmanhood and middle classness, which as comparison with other Brahman and non-Brahman groups shows is highly unusual in contemporary India."
Tamil Geographies
Author: Martha Ann Selby
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791472450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791472450
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
How perceptions of land and space influence social and aesthetic conditions in the Tamil region of India.