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ISBN | 9789352903429 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Bib. Info | viii, 267p.; 24 cm. Includes Bibliography, Index. |
Product Weight | 540 gms. |
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Based upon an in-depth empirical research, Development and Deforestation: Making of Urban Bombay studies the green dense in scaling the urbanization of Bombay in the nineteenth century. In particular, the book traces the principal consequences of the political intervention of the British in reshaping the ecological landscape of western India. In metamorphosing political intervention into the colonial control, the British botanists, conservators and military engineers undertook scores of forest surveys. Most significantly, timber trade dynamics were constructively utilized, which, regrettably resulted in a massive deforestation of western India. Such correlations between timbered commodity and urbanization, leading to subsequent deforestation are understudied.