This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.

This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the ea

This monograph presents a comprehensive account of environmental history of India and its tribals from the late eighteenth onwards, covering both the colonial a

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotami

"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."—Mic