Mahesh Rangarajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1115700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahesh Rangarajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Rangarajan |
| SIGNATURE | RANGARAJAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nehru Memorial Museum & Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
At Nature's Edge
In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam, or the Namib desert and the east African savannah all have in common a long-time human presence and the many ways people have modified nature. With research in six Asian and African countries, the authors come together to…
Setting the Game of Ferocity and Innocence
The details in the Jahangirnama are much a query in nature and the desires of emperor to show the crack of dawn for the herculean task of knowledge creation which was undertaken by the intriguing and truth searching mind of him. Much of the record created by Jahangir is an effort to assert for his own royal status, affirm the warrior instinct and tocast self as a protector and spiritual elements. The noting around the flora and fauna and his hunt…
Shifting Ground
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction—those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders, farmers, townspeople), eras (colonial, post-colonial), and so on. The limitations of these sharp divides are brought to the forefront when there is …
Animals With Rich Histories
This article explores how far animals are or are not endowed with a sense of history. The century-long history of lion-human interaction in the lions' last habitat in Asia-in India's Gir Forest, Gujarat State-is the focal point of analysis. In turn, there have been longer-term shifts since ancient and medieval times. Aside from two specific phases of breakdown, Gir's lions rarely attack people. To comprehend why this is so, both the lions and hum…
Predicaments of power and nature in India
Political leaders and the media, corporations and popular movements, are all engaged with issues of how to strike a balance with nature more than ever before. Climate change and the loss of biological diversity, the threat of nuclear contamination and the issues of wider ecological security of the underprivileged, are all among the issues that jostle for attention. With recent regime-shifts on the global political arena, commitments that were ear…
Striving for a balance
Indira Gandhi's life (1917-1984) spanned much of the twentieth century. She was Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy for two spells that totaled fifteen years. To this day, her environmental legacy remains one that divides critics from admirers. One sees it as a defense against ecological impoverishment, especially in her initiation of wildlife preservation and environmental conservation. The other views these as thin legitimization fo…
Relocation from Protected Areas
Environmental Issues in India
Polity, Ecology and Landscape
The Raj and the natural world
The Indian general elections of 1996
Impact of Capitalism on the Forests of Central India
Environmental Histories of South Asia
Ecological histories of South Asia are going through a growth phase. Within a few years of the first ecologically informed study of a peasant movement, there has been a welter of fresh monographs. From an initial focus on forests and irrigation, the agenda is also broadening out to include a range of sectors, from small dam systems to urban air pollution, from changing attitudes to fauna to histories of science. Yet, the unifying theme largely re…
Imperial agendas and India's forests
Making of a popular debate: The Indian Forester and the emerging agenda of state forestry in India, 1875-1904
Imperial agendas and India's forests
Making of a popular debate: The Indian Forester and the emerging agenda of state forestry in India, 1875-1904
Animals With Rich Histories
This article explores how far animals are or are not endowed with a sense of history. The century-long history of lion-human interaction in the lions' last habitat in Asia-in India's Gir Forest, Gujarat State-is the focal point of analysis. In turn, there have been longer-term shifts since ancient and medieval times. Aside from two specific phases of breakdown, Gir's lions rarely attack people. To comprehend why this is so, both the lions and hum…
The Raj and the natural world
Shifting Ground
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction—those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders, farmers, townspeople), eras (colonial, post-colonial), and so on. The limitations of these sharp divides are brought to the forefront when there is …
Polity, Ecology and Landscape
Setting the Game of Ferocity and Innocence
The details in the Jahangirnama are much a query in nature and the desires of emperor to show the crack of dawn for the herculean task of knowledge creation which was undertaken by the intriguing and truth searching mind of him. Much of the record created by Jahangir is an effort to assert for his own royal status, affirm the warrior instinct and tocast self as a protector and spiritual elements. The noting around the flora and fauna and his hunt…
Imperial agendas and India's forests
Making of a popular debate: The Indian Forester and the emerging agenda of state forestry in India, 1875-1904
Environmental Histories of South Asia
Ecological histories of South Asia are going through a growth phase. Within a few years of the first ecologically informed study of a peasant movement, there has been a welter of fresh monographs. From an initial focus on forests and irrigation, the agenda is also broadening out to include a range of sectors, from small dam systems to urban air pollution, from changing attitudes to fauna to histories of science. Yet, the unifying theme largely re…
The Indian general elections of 1996
Impact of Capitalism on the Forests of Central India
The Raj and the natural world
Polity, Ecology and Landscape
Environmental Issues in India
Relocation from Protected Areas
Predicaments of power and nature in India
Political leaders and the media, corporations and popular movements, are all engaged with issues of how to strike a balance with nature more than ever before. Climate change and the loss of biological diversity, the threat of nuclear contamination and the issues of wider ecological security of the underprivileged, are all among the issues that jostle for attention. With recent regime-shifts on the global political arena, commitments that were ear…
Striving for a balance
Indira Gandhi's life (1917-1984) spanned much of the twentieth century. She was Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy for two spells that totaled fifteen years. To this day, her environmental legacy remains one that divides critics from admirers. One sees it as a defense against ecological impoverishment, especially in her initiation of wildlife preservation and environmental conservation. The other views these as thin legitimization fo…
Animals With Rich Histories
This article explores how far animals are or are not endowed with a sense of history. The century-long history of lion-human interaction in the lions' last habitat in Asia-in India's Gir Forest, Gujarat State-is the focal point of analysis. In turn, there have been longer-term shifts since ancient and medieval times. Aside from two specific phases of breakdown, Gir's lions rarely attack people. To comprehend why this is so, both the lions and hum…
Shifting Ground
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction—those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders, farmers, townspeople), eras (colonial, post-colonial), and so on. The limitations of these sharp divides are brought to the forefront when there is …
At Nature's Edge
In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam, or the Namib desert and the east African savannah all have in common a long-time human presence and the many ways people have modified nature. With research in six Asian and African countries, the authors come together to…
Setting the Game of Ferocity and Innocence
The details in the Jahangirnama are much a query in nature and the desires of emperor to show the crack of dawn for the herculean task of knowledge creation which was undertaken by the intriguing and truth searching mind of him. Much of the record created by Jahangir is an effort to assert for his own royal status, affirm the warrior instinct and tocast self as a protector and spiritual elements. The noting around the flora and fauna and his hunt…
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