Ecological Nationalisms

Gunnel Cederlof is associate professor of history, Uppsala University, Sweden. K. Sivaramakrishnan is professor of anthropology and international studies and director of the South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies, at the University of Washington. The other contributors are Nina Bhatt, Vinita Damodaran, Claude A. Garcia, Urs Geiser, Götz Hoeppe, Bengt G. Karlsson, Antje Linkenbach, Wolfgang Mey, Kathleen D. Morrison, J. P. Pascal, and Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: Ecological Nationalisms: Claiming Nature for Making History / K. Sivaramakrishnan and Gunnel CederlofPart One | Regional Natures, Nations, and Empire2. Environmental History, the Spice Trade, and the State in South India / Kathleen D. Morrison3. The Toda Tiger: Debates on Custom, Utility, and Rights in Nature, South India 1820-1843 / Gunnel Cederlof4. Contested Forests in North-West Pakistan: The Bureaucracy between the "Ecological," the "National," and the Realities of a Nation's Frontier / Urs GeiserPart Two | Competing Nationalisms5. Indigenous Forests: Rights, Discourses, and Resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002 / Vinita Damodaran6. Nature and Politics: The Case of Uttarakhand, North India / Antje Linkenbach7. Indigenous Natures: Forest and Community Dynamics in Meghalaya, North-East India / Bengt G. Karlsson8. Sacred Forests of Kodagu: Ecological Value and Social Role / Claude A. Garcia and J.-P. PascalPart Three | Commodified Nature and National Visions9. Knowledge Against the State: Local Perceptions of Government Interventions in the Fishery (Kerala, India) / Gotz Hoeppe10. Shifting Cultivation, Images, and Development in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh / Wolfgang Mey11. Forest Managementin a Pukhtun Community: The Construction of Identities / Sarah Southwold-Llewellyn12. "There Is No Life Without Wildlife": National Parks and National Identity in Bardia National Park, Western Nepal / Nina BhattBibliographyIndex

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