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Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991 (Hardcover)
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Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
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Drawing on a rich collection of sources, Sumit Guha's 1999 book
reconstructs the history of the forest communities in western India
to explore questions of tribal identity and the environment. In so
doing, he demonstrates how the ideology of indigenous cultures,
developed out of the notion of a pure and untouched ethnicity, is
in fact rooted in nineteenth-century racial and colonial
anthropology. As a challenge to this view, the author traces the
processes by which the apparently immutable identities of South
Asian populations took shape, and how these populations interacted
politically, economically and socially with civilizations outside
their immediate vicinity. While such theories have been discussed
by scholars of South-East Asia and Africa, this study examines the
South Asian case. Sumit Guha's penetrating and controversial
critique will make a significant contribution to that literature.
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