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Ecology and Equity

The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

By: Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha

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Ecology and Equity

The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

By: Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha

Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem. Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and environmental conflict on the global scale. The authors argue that the root of this conflict is competition within different social groups and between different economic interests for natural resources. Radical both in its critique of the causes of crisis in India and in its proposals for ecological reform, Ecology and Equity is essential reading for all concerned for the Third World's in the world.

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Routledge

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1135634882

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9781135634889

A Walk Up The Hill

Living with People and Nature

By: Madhav Gadgil

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A Walk Up The Hill

Living with People and Nature

By: Madhav Gadgil

Madhav Gadgil was born in Pune in 1942, just as Salim Ali's superbly illustrated Book of Indian Birds was published. Influenced by his birdwatcher father, he learnt to recognize birds from their pictures even before he could read. He is an unusual combination of a person fascinated by the diversity of the natural world, of the landscapes and the life they support, as well as the diversity of cultures and lifestyles of the people firmly rooted to India's soil. He has dedicated himself to intellectual pursuits ranging over mathematics, natural and social sciences, history and public policy. This book is an account of his life walking up and down the country's hills and dales, watching peacocks dance and elephants prance, living among fisherfolk on the west coast, horticulturists on Western Ghats, and the tribals of Manipur and Maharashtra, all the while being a part of a vibrant scientific community.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357082212

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9789357082211

This Fissured Land

An Ecological History of India

By: Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha

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An Ecological History of India

By: Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha

A masterful study. . . . It does for ecological history what the writings of Marx and Engels did for the study of class relations and social production."—Michael Adas, Rutgers University

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Univ of California Press

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0520082966

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9780520082960

Ecological Journeys

The Science and Politics of Conservation in India

By: Madhav Gadgil

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Ecological Journeys

The Science and Politics of Conservation in India

By: Madhav Gadgil

The Essays In This Book Deal With Many Facets Of The Natural World And The World Of Humans, And How The Two Impinge On Each Other. The Author`S Detailed Studies Of Hunting And Gathering Communities Led Him To Controversially Champion Traditional Methods Of Conserving Nature. The Merits Of State-Sponsored Conservation Initiatives Are Weighed Up In His Work, As Is Planned `Development`. He Argues Passionately Against Directing Energy, Water And Raw Materials Towards Intensive Agriculture And Urban Development At At The Cost Of The Rural Poor. He Calls For Radical Changes In The Indian Polity So That People Are Not Denied Basic Information And Therefore Prevented From Participating In Development Issues. These Essays Stimulate And Provoke Us To Think For Ourselves About The Natural World And Our Relationship With It, Urging Us To Take A Hand In Shaping It.

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Orient Blackswan

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8178241129

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9788178241128

Ecological Journeys

The Science and Politics of Conservation in India

By: Madhav Gadgil

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The Science and Politics of Conservation in India

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Orient Blackswan

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8178241129

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Unfinished Innings

Recollections and Reflections of a Civil Servant

By: Madhav Godbole

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Unfinished Innings

Recollections and Reflections of a Civil Servant

By: Madhav Godbole

The author s seeking premature retirement eighteen months before the due date in March 1993 as the Union Home Secretary, was widely reported and extensively debated in the media. In his memoirs Mr Godbole narrates the events that prompted his decision to resign from government service. The author interestingly accompanies the reader behind the scenes, to the world of Indian bureaucracy and realpolitik.

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498

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Orient Blackswan

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8125008837

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9788125008835

The Web of Freedom

J. C. Kumarappa and Gandhi’s Struggle for Economic Justice

By: Venu Madhav Govindu,Deepak Malghan

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The Web of Freedom

J. C. Kumarappa and Gandhi’s Struggle for Economic Justice

By: Venu Madhav Govindu,Deepak Malghan

In June 1929, a thirty-seven-year-old chartered accountant dressed in Western clothes walked into the Khadi Bhandar on Kalbadevi Road, Bombay, to be ‘measured up’ for a dhoti. Having never worn one in his life, he had no idea that dhotis came in fixed lengths. Weeks ago, the same man had filed an affidavit to change his name from Joseph Chelladurai Cornelius to Joseph Cornelius Kumarappa. Discarding an alien name and attire, the anglicized professional was rapidly transforming into a dogged fighter for social justice. Freedom fighter, economic philosopher, environmentalist, and Gandhian constructive worker, Kumarappa (1892–1960) was a man of many parts. He wrote extensively on political economy and simultaneously championed the cause of rural India, both under British Raj and after Independence. If Gandhi’s swaraj was more than political self-rule, it was Kumarappa who gave it economic content and meaning. A rare thinker who married theory with practice, Kumarappa challenged received wisdom on industrialization and modernity. Based on extensive archival research, this volume presents the fascinating story of his life, work, and ideas that have a strikingly contemporary resonance.

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Oxford University Press

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0190990554

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9780190990558

This Fissured Land

An Ecological History of India

By: Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha

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This Fissured Land

An Ecological History of India

By: Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha

Using a general theory of ecological history, the authors provide a fresh interpretation of India's history, including an ecological account of the caste system and a sociological analysis of resource use. Madhav Gadgil, a professor of ecological sciences, and Ramachandra Guha, a professor of sociology, present in this volume a collaborative perspective on the subcontinent which is rare, pathbreaking, and long overdue.

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0195633415

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9780195633412

Ecology and Equity

The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

By: Madhav Gadgil,Ramachandra Guha

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The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

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1135634955

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Dragonflies of India, a Field Guide

By: K. A. Subramanian,Madhav Gadgil

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Dragonflies of India, a Field Guide

By: K. A. Subramanian,Madhav Gadgil

Study an initiative of the Lifescape Project.

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8174801928

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Ecology and Equity

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Unfinished Innings

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The Web of Freedom

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This Fissured Land

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Dragonflies of India, a Field Guide

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