Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

IAN TALBOT AND AMIT RANJAN

PART 1

Urban Pasts, Contemporary Legacies

1 Partition, the Environment, and the Early Post-Independence Development of Lahore

IAN TALBOT

2 Written in Stone: Political Geologies of Small-Town India

THOMAS CROWLEY

3 A Shift From the "Devotional" to the "Natural" in Nineteenth-Century Lahore's Art Education

TAHIR KAMRAN

4 Building With a Conscience? Heritage, Design and Urban Space in Bombay

MANJIRI KAMAT

PART 2

The City and River Management

5 The Hooghly River and the Incomplete Mastery of the Natural World in British Colonial India

ROBERT IVERMEE

6 Political Economy of Dams in Colonial and Early Postcolonial India

AMIT RANJAN

7 Locating the Riparian Commons in Eastern South Asia: A Translocal Perspective

IFTEKHAR IQBAL

PART 3

Urban Growth in a Fragile Environment

8 Evolving Islandscapes in a Changing Climate: Male' City, Maldives

MIZNA MOHAMED AND MOHAMED INAZ

9 Analysing Human-Environment Coexistence: Urban Development and the Colombo Wetland Complex

DENNIS MOMBAUER AND VOSITHA WIJENAYAKE

10 Vanishing Rains: Deforestation, Declining Rainfall, and Desiccation in North East India With Special Reference to Cherrapunji, the "Rainiest Spot on the Globe"

SAJAL NAG

11 Reconstructing Thimphu: Balancing Tradition and Transition in Bhutan

SUSAN M. WALCOTT

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• Estudos regionais
• História da Ásia
• História social e cultural
• Planeamento urbano e municipal
• Geografia regional

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