Author: CleghornPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Forests and Gardens of South India
Author: CleghornThe Forests and Gardens of South India
Author: Hugh Francis Clarke CleghornPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Forest Trees of South India
Author: S.G. Neginhal IFSPublisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1647606373
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
• Contains descriptions of 988 Trees belonging to 87 families. • Has 568 pages, 255 black and white photographs and 193 line drawings of Trees. • Separate photographs provided for the Evergreen, Deciduous, Scrub and Mangrove Trees. • Sacred, Rare, Endemic, Ornamental, Fruit-bearing, Littoral Trees are tabulated. • Contains Maps of Forests of South India and Western and Eastern Ghats. • This book is brought out after a gap of more than a century after Bourdillon’s The Forest Trees of Travancore (1908). • The book is also equally useful wherever Tropical Evergreen, Deciduous and Scrub Forests exist in Peninsular India.
Dr.H.F.C. Cleghorn Founder of Forest Conservancy in India
Author: SubbarayaluPublisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 9383808543
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
On the advent of British rule, there was unprecedented pressure on the forests for commercial exploitation. This led to their denudation, which in turn caused the silting of rivers, resulting in poor flow of water, leading to famine. Among the East India Company Surgeons there were some who were ardent nature lovers and who showed keen interest in the preservation of natural wealth. This book is a tribute to one of those veteran Surgeons, Dr. H. F. C. Cleghorn, who was instrumental in introducing Forest Conservation not only in South India, but also in the Punjab, and all over the Indian Empire. Dr. Cleghorn was under the East India Company serving as military Surgeon in the Madras Presidency. For his pioneering works, Dr. Cleghorn was conferred the title ‘The Founder of Forest Conservancy in India’. He retired in 1869 and returned to Scotland. There again, he ensured that an exclusive course in Forestry was included in the Syllabi of the University of Edinburgh, and he also got involved in the selection of personnel for Indian Forest Service. His collection of plant drawings and books finds a place in Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh. This book is a deep narrative on how Dr. Cleghorn organized Forest Conservancy on an all India basis and how he got people like R. H. Beddome, the Naturalist, to work with him. His association with the formation of botanical gardens at Lal Bagh, Bangalore, and Udhagamandalam, are interestingly captured.
Empire and Environmental Anxiety
Author: J. BeattiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230309062
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how environmental anxieties led to increasing state resource management, conservation, and urban reform.
Modernizing Nature
Author: S. Ravi RajanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199277966
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
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The Forest Flora of North-West and Central India
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368831828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The Bradley Bibliography: Arboriculture-economic properties of woody plants
Author: Alfred RehderPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia
Author: Edward BalfourPublisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Imperialism and the natural world
Author: John M. MacKenziePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526123673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Imperial power, both formal and informal, and research in the natural sciences were closely dependent in the nineteenth century. This book examines a portion of the mass-produced juvenile literature, focusing on the cluster of ideas connected with Britain's role in the maintenance of order and the spread of civilization. It discusses the political economy of Western ecological systems, and the consequences of their extension to the colonial periphery, particularly in forms of forest conservation. Progress and consumerism were major constituents of the consensus that helped stabilise the late Victorian society, but consumerism only works if it can deliver the goods. From 1842 onwards, almost all major episodes of coordinated popular resistance to colonial rule in India were preceded by phases of vigorous resistance to colonial forest control. By the late 1840s, a limited number of professional positions were available for geologists in British imperial service, but imperial geology had a longer pedigree. Modern imperialism or 'municipal imperialism' offers a broader framework for understanding the origins, long duration and persistent support for overseas expansion which transcended the rise and fall of cabinets or international realignments in the 1800s. Although medical scientists began to discern and control the microbiological causes of tropical ills after the mid-nineteenth century, the claims for climatic causation did not undergo a corresponding decline. Arthur Pearson's Pearson's Magazine was patriotic, militaristic and devoted to royalty. The book explores how science emerged as an important feature of the development policies of the Colonial Office (CO) of the colonial empire.