Shifting ground : people, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history / edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan.

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.

viii, 310 pages ; 23 cm

First edition.

Introduction : People, animals, and mobility in India's environmental history / Mahesh Rangarajan and K. Sivaramakrishnan -- Conceiving ecology and stopping the clock : narratives of balance, loss and degradation / Kathleen D. Morrison -- From eminence to near extinction : the journey of the greater one-horned rhino / Shibani Bose -- Lions, cheetahs, and others in the Mughal landscape / Divyabhanusinh -- Environmental status and wild boars in princely India / Julie E. Hughes -- The imperial ambition of science and its discontents : animal breeding in nineteenth-century Punjab / Brian P. Caton -- Making room inside forests : grazing and agrarian conflicts in colonial Assam / Arupjyoti Saikia -- Nature and politics at the end of Raj : environmental management and political legitimacy in late colonial India, 1919-47 / Daniel Klingensmith -- How to be Hindu in the Himalayas : conflicts over animal sacrifice in Uttarakhand / Radhika Govindrajan -- Logjam : peasantization caused deforestation in Narmada Valley / Vikramaditya Thakur -- The 'tiger crisis' and the response : reclaiming the wilderness in Sariska Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan / Ghazala Shahabuddin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.