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History And The Changing Horizon

Author: Amit Bhattacharyya, Mahua Sarkar

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Categories: General, History, Political Science
Year September 2014
Pages XVIII + 346
Binding HB
Size 5.5″/8.5″
ISBN 9789380677705

 

Whenever we discuss issues on environment, science etc. we do it in a particular historical context. The present volume comprising fourteen articles covers aspects of the history of science and environment  as reflected within different social systems.

It includes articles on Kashimbazar, Podu cultivation in tribal Odisha and the Lodha tribe. It seeks to establish the link between the Moist movement in Odisha with social changes as also rise of fascism and the creation of the atom bomb and the communities of Indonesia. The last piece is on environmental protection in early Soviet Russia. This book is likely to be of interest to researchers, social scientists, historians and general readers.

Introduction

Keynote Address

A preliminary note on Science, Technology, Society and Market: Six propositions

Prof. G. Haragopal

Section A: Ecology and Technology: From the Ancient to Modern India

1. From the Oxus to the Indus: Geographical Landscape and Migration of Technological Tradition, c. 300 BCE-100 СЕ.

Suchandra Ghosh

2. Dust Storms over Citadels of  North-West India and Afghanistan (A Case Study of Environmental Disturbances occurred during the Early Medieval Period)

Prof. G.S.L. Devra

3. Land use, Tenancy Rights, and Rent in the late Eighteenth Century Western Bengal:

An Introduction to the Caldecott Manuscript

Ratan Dasgupta

Section B: Capitalism/Imperialism and Indigenous Culture

4. Rice: Culture and Cultivation from Pre-Green revolution to Post-Green Revolution

Anupam Paul

5. Social Systems, Science and The Indigenous Beliefs : A Case-study of the People of the Sundarbans in Contemporary West Bengal

Mahua Sarkar

Section C: Man and Nature

6. Kasimbazar: A Theatre of War between Man and Nature

Gargi Chattopadhyay

7. Podu: Encountering a ‘Primitive’ Mode of Subsistence in Tribal Odisha

Debasree De

8. Crafting a Green Sphere: The Lodhas Reconsidered

Sutapa Ghosh Dastidar

Section D: People’s Movements and Social Changes

9. The Maoist Movement and Socio-economic Changes:

A Case Study of Gadchiroli in Maharastra

Amit Bhattacharyya

10. Globalized Capitalism, Environmental Destruction and Resistance: The Story of the anti-POSCO movement in Odisha

Partho Sarothi Ray

Section E: Imperialism and Other Countries

11. Rise of Fascist and Nazi Totalitarianism, Migration of Scientists and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb

Javanta Sthanapati

12. Caught between Traditions and Modernity; The Communities of Indonesia Sumita Sen

Section F: Environment and the Experience of Socialism

13. Early Soviet Commitment to Environment Protection and its Decline

Kunal Chattopadhyay

Amit Bhattacharyya, Mahua Sarkar

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