Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991

by Sumit Guha

Book Overview

Drawing on a rich collection of sources, Sumit Guha demonstrates how the ideology of indigenous cultures, developed in recent years out of the notion of a pure and untouched ethnicity, is in fact rooted in nineteenth-century racial and colonial anthropology. Challenging this view, he traces the processes by which the apparently immutable identities of South Asian populations took shape, and how these populations interacted with civilizations beyond...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521640784
• ISBN13: 9780521640787
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"