Syllabus
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Course Code: HIS-E-46(i) Course Name: Environmental History of India-II |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Colonial Intervention and Environmental Change: British Economic Policies and the Process of Colonialization; Colonialism and Nature – British Vision towards Environmental Issues; Over Exploitation of Natural Resources; Technological Development, Industrialization and its Impact on Land Use, Agriculture and Forests; Agricultural and Forest Acts; Large scale Hydraulic Engineering: Colonial Projects | |
| 2 | Indian Nationalism and Environmental Issues: Resistance of Peasants and Tribals to Colonial Agricultural and Forest Policies; Indian Nationalism and Nature: Visions on Gandhi and Nehru towards Environmental Issues; Colonial Inheritance and Development and Deprivation in Free India: Dams, Mines, Hydro Projects, Electric Projects | |
| 3 | Independent India and Environmental Change-I: Environmental Regulations and Policies in India; Emergence of Environmental Movements in India – Chipko Movement, Narmada Bachao Movement, Silent Valley in Kerela, Mining, River Protection and Water Disposal Group; Why Big Dams became Popular in Independent India – Nationalism, Socialism and Planning: Social and Environmental Critiques; Animals and Politics in India | |
| 4 | Independent India and Environmental Change-II: Global Environmental Problems/Concerns and its Impact on India – Climate Change, Ozone Layer Depletion, Global Warming and Nuclear Disaster; International Conventions and Environmental Planning in India; Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Policies in India; Ideas of Contesting Development | |
