Indian Vistas of Environment

Environment History has gripped the attention of scholars all over the world. In this penultimate round of struggle for co-existence between man and nature, we have arrived at the last stage of survival strategy. Therefore, environmental issues has come to the forefront of all disciplines. History coordinates the views from the past to the future. It provides the hindsight to this emerging area of disconcert to mankind. were this stages of environmental degradation? What lesons can we draw from the past experience? This volume proves this past for the answers to the future. About The Author:- Dr. Chittabra Palit, M.A. (Cal., Ph.D. (Cantab), FRAS (London) is a Professor of History at jadavpur University, Kolkata and a renowned hitorians of sciences. He was a member of the National Commission for History of Science (1998-2001) and a grantee fo Indian National Science Academic since 1998. His major books on history of science include Science and Nationlism, Scientific Bangal History of Medicine in india (ed.)Sciences, Technology Medicine and Environment in Indoa : Historical Perspectives (ed.). Dr. Mahua Sarkar, M.A. (J.U.) Ph.D. (J.U.) is a Professor of History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. At reputed scholars in Environmental Studies her major work is Justice in a Gothic Edifice: A History of the Calcutta High Court. She has numerous research papers on Enviromental History ti her credit. Contents:- Preface. • List of Contributors. • Introduction. • Understandifgn the History of Environment. • The Chuar rebellion of 1799 : An Ecological Approach. • Jim Corbett and His Love for Nature : A Critical Review from the Perspective of the History of Indian Environment. • Declining Flora and Fauna of Frontier Bengal (1870-1930). • Man and the Beast : Changing Perspectives from Punthi to Prose. • A Study of Environmental Damage in Britain and Bengal during the Nineteenth Century and its Reflections in the Novels of Few English and Bengali authors. • Artistic Impressions of the Famine and Environment : A Case Study of the Bengal Famine (1943). • In Search of Football Ground : Development and Problems of Open Space in Twentieth Century Urban Bengal. • Local Self Government and Sanitation in Clonial Bengal 1920-47. • Environmental Protection and Sanitainalble Development : A peep into the Earth Charter. • Organic Tea Farming for Maintaining Environment Quality. • Environmental Crisis and Human Rights : A Historical Perspective. • Colonial Exploitation of Indian Forestry. • Globalizatioin and rthe Indian Cosmetic Industry. • Index. • The Title 'Indian Vistas of Environment written/authored/edited by C. Palit, M. Sarkar', published in the year 2007. The ISBN 9788178355962 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 208 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Environment. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-