Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Agrarian Environments 1
6. State Economic Policies and Changing Regional Landscapes in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, 1818-1947 23
7. Colonial Influences on Property, Community, and Land Use in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh 47
8. Environmental Alarm and Institutionalized Conservation in Himachal Pradesh,1865-1994 68
9. State Power and Agricultural Transformation in Tamil Nadu 86
10. Famine in the Landscape: Imagining Hunger in South Asian History, 1860-1990 107
11. Economic Rents and Natural Resources: Commons and Conflicts in Premodern India 132
12. Identities and Livelihoods: Gender, Ethnicity, and Nature in a South Bihar Village 147
13. Regimes of Control, Strategies of Access: Politics of Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India 170
14. Pastoralism and Community in Rajasthan: Interrogating Categories of Arid Lands Development 191
15. Labored Landscapes: Agro-ecological Change in Central Gujarat, India 216
16. Reflections
17. Agrarian Histories and Grassroots Development in South Asia 251
18. Cathecting the Natural 265
19. Bibliography 277
20. Contributors 303
21. Index 307