Velayutham Saravanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Velayutham Saravanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Velayutham |
| FAMILY NAME | Saravanan |
| SIGNATURE | SARAVANAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jamia Millia Islamia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature
Journal Article Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Get access Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 263. Cloth $57.00. Velayutham Saravanan Velayutham Saravanan Jamia Millia Islamia, India Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Water and the Environmental History of Modern India
This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted…
Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India
Subalterns v. state institutions
This article attempts to analyse the nexus between different departments of the state administration viz., forest, police and revenue, in the violation of the human rights of the tribal communities in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu in India during the last decade of the twentieth century (1990–2000). Further, it also looks into the nexus between the forest department and politicians in extracting forest resources. On the one hand, the stat…
Political Economy of the Recognition of Forest Rights Act, 2006
Politics has played havoc with tribals and the environment during the post-Independence period in India. Even after fi fty years of Indian planning, deprived groups, and tribals in particular, continue to remain underdeveloped, with their living conditions deteriorating further. Taking a historical perspective, this article seeks to capture the political undercurrents of economic policy-making towards tribals and tribal development planning and s…
Environmental History of Tamil Nadu State, Law and Decline of Forest and Tribals, 1950-2000
Environment and sustainable development have been accorded great emphasis since the last quarter of the twentieth century. In India, the environmental protection is enshrined in the Constitution of India (42nd Amendment) under the Directive Principles of State Policy in 1977. According to Article 48A, 'State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife in the country'. Article 51A(g) enjoins upo…
Colonial Agrarian Policies in the Tribal Areas of Madras Presidency
This article analyses the colonial agrarian policies applied to the tribal areas of the Salem and Baramahal region of Madras Presidency during the survey and settlement period (1872–1947). It argues that those setting the colonial agrarian policy did not consider the economic disadvantages of the hill areas and forest-oriented tribal economy and treated them in line with the plains; mainly to extract the maximum land revenue. The article shows an…
Colonialism and coffee plantations
This article attempts to analyse how the colonial project of establishing coffee plantations disturbed the self-subsistent traditional tribal system, damaged the ecology, and resulted in environmental decline in the Shervaroy hills of Madras Presidency during the nineteenth century. The thrust of the argument is that the colonial administration was least concerned about the tribal peopleÌs customary rights over forest resources, and their traditi…
Colonial commercial forest policy and tribal private forests in Madras Presidency
The article attempts to highlight the colonial commercial forest policy vis-à-vis tribal private forests in the Kalrayan hills of Salem and Baramahal region of Madras Presidency during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1792-1881). Further, it analyses the different strategies employed by the colonial government to encroach upon private forests, dis regarding the traditional rights of the tribals. It concludes that the British administ…
Political revival of casteism in Tamil Nadu
This article attempts to analyse the behaviour of the ruling political parties and the consequences of emerging casteism in Tamil Nadu during the last thirty years of Dravidian rule in a historical perspective. It argues that, instead of getting eradicated, the caste system has got revived and vertical polarisation amongst castes has taken place in Tamil Nadu, which is undeniably a threat to the secular democratic system
Technological Transformation and Water Conflicts in the Bhavani River Basin of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1970
This article examines in a historical perspective (1930-1970) the water conflicts that have occurred due to technological transformation in water lifting devices (viz.: electric and oil-engine pumpsets) in the agricultural sector in the old Kalingarayan channel and new Lower Bhavani Project canal of the Bhavani River Basin in Tamil Nadu. It discusses the consequences of technological transformation leading to water conflicts between the head-reac…
Social transformation and caste conflict in a village in Tamil Nadu
This paper attempts to assess the causes as well as the consequences of the social conflict in Saranatham village in 1948. The first section attempts to reconstruct the agrarian relations of the pre-conflict period i.e., 1947. The second section explains the origin of social movements by the labouring class (Scheduled Castes) and their role in the social transformation in that village. The third section discuses the causes of the conflict and the…
Commercialisation of forests, environmental negligence and alienation of tribal rights in Madras Presidency
Colonialism and coffee plantations
This article attempts to analyse how the colonial project of establishing coffee plantations disturbed the self-subsistent traditional tribal system, damaged the ecology, and resulted in environmental decline in the Shervaroy hills of Madras Presidency during the nineteenth century. The thrust of the argument is that the colonial administration was least concerned about the tribal peopleÌs customary rights over forest resources, and their traditi…
Political Economy of the Recognition of Forest Rights Act, 2006
Politics has played havoc with tribals and the environment during the post-Independence period in India. Even after fi fty years of Indian planning, deprived groups, and tribals in particular, continue to remain underdeveloped, with their living conditions deteriorating further. Taking a historical perspective, this article seeks to capture the political undercurrents of economic policy-making towards tribals and tribal development planning and s…
Colonial commercial forest policy and tribal private forests in Madras Presidency
The article attempts to highlight the colonial commercial forest policy vis-à-vis tribal private forests in the Kalrayan hills of Salem and Baramahal region of Madras Presidency during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1792-1881). Further, it analyses the different strategies employed by the colonial government to encroach upon private forests, dis regarding the traditional rights of the tribals. It concludes that the British administ…
Environmental History of Tamil Nadu State, Law and Decline of Forest and Tribals, 1950-2000
Environment and sustainable development have been accorded great emphasis since the last quarter of the twentieth century. In India, the environmental protection is enshrined in the Constitution of India (42nd Amendment) under the Directive Principles of State Policy in 1977. According to Article 48A, 'State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife in the country'. Article 51A(g) enjoins upo…
Subalterns v. state institutions
This article attempts to analyse the nexus between different departments of the state administration viz., forest, police and revenue, in the violation of the human rights of the tribal communities in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu in India during the last decade of the twentieth century (1990–2000). Further, it also looks into the nexus between the forest department and politicians in extracting forest resources. On the one hand, the stat…
Colonial Agrarian Policies in the Tribal Areas of Madras Presidency
This article analyses the colonial agrarian policies applied to the tribal areas of the Salem and Baramahal region of Madras Presidency during the survey and settlement period (1872–1947). It argues that those setting the colonial agrarian policy did not consider the economic disadvantages of the hill areas and forest-oriented tribal economy and treated them in line with the plains; mainly to extract the maximum land revenue. The article shows an…
Technological Transformation and Water Conflicts in the Bhavani River Basin of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1970
This article examines in a historical perspective (1930-1970) the water conflicts that have occurred due to technological transformation in water lifting devices (viz.: electric and oil-engine pumpsets) in the agricultural sector in the old Kalingarayan channel and new Lower Bhavani Project canal of the Bhavani River Basin in Tamil Nadu. It discusses the consequences of technological transformation leading to water conflicts between the head-reac…
Commercialisation of forests, environmental negligence and alienation of tribal rights in Madras Presidency
Commercialisation of forests, environmental negligence and alienation of tribal rights in Madras Presidency
Technological Transformation and Water Conflicts in the Bhavani River Basin of Tamil Nadu, 1930-1970
This article examines in a historical perspective (1930-1970) the water conflicts that have occurred due to technological transformation in water lifting devices (viz.: electric and oil-engine pumpsets) in the agricultural sector in the old Kalingarayan channel and new Lower Bhavani Project canal of the Bhavani River Basin in Tamil Nadu. It discusses the consequences of technological transformation leading to water conflicts between the head-reac…
Social transformation and caste conflict in a village in Tamil Nadu
This paper attempts to assess the causes as well as the consequences of the social conflict in Saranatham village in 1948. The first section attempts to reconstruct the agrarian relations of the pre-conflict period i.e., 1947. The second section explains the origin of social movements by the labouring class (Scheduled Castes) and their role in the social transformation in that village. The third section discuses the causes of the conflict and the…
Political revival of casteism in Tamil Nadu
This article attempts to analyse the behaviour of the ruling political parties and the consequences of emerging casteism in Tamil Nadu during the last thirty years of Dravidian rule in a historical perspective. It argues that, instead of getting eradicated, the caste system has got revived and vertical polarisation amongst castes has taken place in Tamil Nadu, which is undeniably a threat to the secular democratic system
Colonial commercial forest policy and tribal private forests in Madras Presidency
The article attempts to highlight the colonial commercial forest policy vis-à-vis tribal private forests in the Kalrayan hills of Salem and Baramahal region of Madras Presidency during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1792-1881). Further, it analyses the different strategies employed by the colonial government to encroach upon private forests, dis regarding the traditional rights of the tribals. It concludes that the British administ…
Colonialism and coffee plantations
This article attempts to analyse how the colonial project of establishing coffee plantations disturbed the self-subsistent traditional tribal system, damaged the ecology, and resulted in environmental decline in the Shervaroy hills of Madras Presidency during the nineteenth century. The thrust of the argument is that the colonial administration was least concerned about the tribal peopleÌs customary rights over forest resources, and their traditi…
Colonial Agrarian Policies in the Tribal Areas of Madras Presidency
This article analyses the colonial agrarian policies applied to the tribal areas of the Salem and Baramahal region of Madras Presidency during the survey and settlement period (1872–1947). It argues that those setting the colonial agrarian policy did not consider the economic disadvantages of the hill areas and forest-oriented tribal economy and treated them in line with the plains; mainly to extract the maximum land revenue. The article shows an…
Environmental History of Tamil Nadu State, Law and Decline of Forest and Tribals, 1950-2000
Environment and sustainable development have been accorded great emphasis since the last quarter of the twentieth century. In India, the environmental protection is enshrined in the Constitution of India (42nd Amendment) under the Directive Principles of State Policy in 1977. According to Article 48A, 'State shall endeavour to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forests and wildlife in the country'. Article 51A(g) enjoins upo…
Political Economy of the Recognition of Forest Rights Act, 2006
Politics has played havoc with tribals and the environment during the post-Independence period in India. Even after fi fty years of Indian planning, deprived groups, and tribals in particular, continue to remain underdeveloped, with their living conditions deteriorating further. Taking a historical perspective, this article seeks to capture the political undercurrents of economic policy-making towards tribals and tribal development planning and s…
Subalterns v. state institutions
This article attempts to analyse the nexus between different departments of the state administration viz., forest, police and revenue, in the violation of the human rights of the tribal communities in the Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu in India during the last decade of the twentieth century (1990–2000). Further, it also looks into the nexus between the forest department and politicians in extracting forest resources. On the one hand, the stat…
Environmental History and Tribals in Modern India
Water and the Environmental History of Modern India
This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions: * Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins? * Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted…
Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature
Journal Article Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Get access Pratik Chakrabarti. Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. Pp. xii, 263. Cloth $57.00. Velayutham Saravanan Velayutham Saravanan Jamia Millia Islamia, India Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
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