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An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860–1950 - Couverture rigide

Shankar, Devika

 
9781009533683: An Encroaching Sea: Nature, Sovereignty and Development at the Edge of British India 1860–1950
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ISBN 10 : 1009533681 ISBN 13 : 9781009533683
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. Devika Shankar probes this complicated relationship between crisis and development through a focus on a port development project executed in Cochin in the first quarter of the twentieth century amidst significant political and ecological uncertainty. While ecological concerns were triggered by increasing coastal erosion, a political crisis was precipitated by a neighbouring princely state's unprecedented attempt to extend its sovereignty over the British port. This integrative environmental, legal, and political history brings together the history of British India and the princely states to show how these anxieties ultimately paved the way for an ambitious port development project in the final years of colonial rule. In the process it deepens our understanding of environmental transformations and development in modern South Asia and the uneven nature of colonial sovereignty.

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Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. Devika Shankar probes this complicated relationship between crisis and development through a focus on a port development project executed in Cochin in the first quarter of the twentieth century amidst significant political and ecological uncertainty. While ecological concerns were triggered by increasing coastal erosion, a political crisis was precipitated by a neighbouring princely state's unprecedented attempt to extend its sovereignty over the British port. This integrative environmental, legal, and political history brings together the history of British India and the princely states to show how these anxieties ultimately paved the way for an ambitious port development project in the final years of colonial rule. In the process it deepens our understanding of environmental transformations and development in modern South Asia and the uneven nature of colonial sovereignty.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1009533681
ISBN 13 
9781009533683
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
276
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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