| ID | 152633 |
| Call Number | 363.73/Gho/X01063 |
| Title Proper | The Shattered Earth : Histories of climate, catastrophe, and the Wilderness |
| Other Title Information | ed. by |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ghose, Mili |
| Publication | Delhi, Primus Books, 2024. |
| Description | xviii+349p Hb |
| Contents | PART I : CLIMATE AND HISTORY ;/ Donald J. Hughes: Climate Change: a history of environmental knowledge ;/ Ronald E. Doel: An unanticipated legacy: how cold war military concerns created knowledge about global climate change ;/ Sajal Nag: Changing weather, changing lives: Deforestation, climatic change, and its impact on North-East India ;/ Kaushik Roy: Managing the environment: Disease, sanitation, and the Army in British India, 1859-1913 ;/ Ruby Maloni: Sailing with the monsoon: Indian ocean and the history of trade routes ;/ PART II : ECOLOGY, FORESTS, AND THE WILD ;/ Ranjan Chakrabarti: Rifle and romance in the jungle: Hog hunting and tiger shooting in Colonial India ;/ Dipanwita Dasgupta: Adaption, migration, and challenges: Impact of climate change in Sub-Himalayan Bengal ;/ Sahara Ahmed: Colonial pasts and legacies: forests, climate change, and disaster management in the Northern circle, c1860s-1870s ;/ Iftekhar Iqbal: Environmental histories in Eastern South Asia: towards a transregional trajectory ;/ Nirmal Kumar Mahato: Environmental change, resource scarcity, and changing Gender Relations in Manbhum, 1860-1956 ;/ PART III : CATASTROPHES ;/ Rajib Handique: Natural disasters in history: The 1950 earthquake in Assam ;/ Mili Ghose: The cyclone of 1876 in the Bay of Bengal: The forgotten catastrophe ;/ Tirthankar Ghosh: Natural calamities, colonialism and society: Rainfall, flood, and famine in North Bengal, 1850-1900 ;/ Sekhar Mahapatra: The famine of 1770: The catastrophe that struck forest dwellers in South-Western Bengal ;/ Index. |
| Standard Number | 978-93-5852-903-6 |
| Classification Number | 363.73 |