Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Saravanan, Velayutham

Titel

Colonialism and Wildlife: An Environmental History of Modern India

Auflage

1st

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This book delves into the history of the commercialisation of wildlife in India. It examines the colonial strategies that were employed in the commodification of wildlife resources specifically for lucrative domestic and international trade during the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It looks at how and why the colonial administration paid special emphasis on hunting and game sports which largely contributed to commodity capitalism in the form of taxidermy and wildlife exports. The author also critically analyses the wildlife laws and regulations promulgated by the colonial administration, such as the elephant protection act, birds and fisheries act and forest acts and studies how they have systematically brought wildlife under state control with a commercial motive. An important contribution to the environmental history of India, this book is an essential interdisciplinary resource for scholars and researchers of history, colonialism, wildlife studies, economic history, ecological studies, environmental history, Indian history, South Asian studies and development studies.