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Those wanting more info/details or wishing to attend please contact
organisers at envhistasia@hotmailcom or richardhgrove@hotmail.com or
deepak_jnu@yahoo.co.in
Richard Grove (University of Sussex/ANU)
Conference on the Environmental History of Asia
Jawarhalal Nehru University
(4th-7th December, 2002), New Delhi
organised by Centre for World Environmental History (University of Sussex)
and Zakir Hussain Centre, Jawarhalal Nehru Uiversity, New Nelhi
as first conference of the International Environmental History Association
December 4th, 2002
Inauguration
(9.30 am -10.30 am)
Welcome Address
Prof. Karuna Chanana
Inaugural Address
Sh. Chandiprasad Bhatt
Introductory Remarks
Dr. Richard Grove
Dr. Deepak Kumar
(Tea Break 10.30 am to 10.45 am)
Session I
(10.45 am to 12.30 pm, December 4th, 2002 )
[Discourses & Policy : Situating Forests and Debating History]
Chair: Prof. David Washbrook (Oxford University)
Ravi Rajan (UCal, Santa Cruz): Knowledge Hybrids and Alternative
Modernities: A Historical Perspective
Michael Mann( Univ. Halle): Correcting the effects of deforestation: the
ganga Jamuna Doab at the end of the nineteenth century
Dhirendra Dangwal (Univ. Himachal Pradesh) : Scientific Forestry and
Sustainable Management in India: Myth and Reality
Discussant : Mahesh Rangarajan (Cornell Univ)
(Lunch 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm)
Session II
(2.00 pm to 3.30pm, December 4th, 2002 )
[Discourses & Policy : Situating Forests and Debating History]
Chair : Majid Siddiqui
Deborah Sutton (Univ of Lancaster) : "What a Splendid Wood": Natural
Forests and Exotic Planatations in the Colonial Nilgiris in the 19th Century
Sudha Vasan (Delhi University): Reserving Forests: Ideology of Permanence
Abdul Thaha (Osmania University): Forest Policy and Ecological Change in
Hyderabad State
Discussant : Nandini Sundar
Session III
(2.00 pm to 3.30pm, December 4th, 2002 )
[Irrigation: History and Technology]
Chair : Harbans Mukhia
Nirmal Sen Gupta (MIDS, Chennai): Institutions and Engineering: A
Comparison of Developments of Irrigation Designs In South Asian Conditions
G.P. Sharma (Jamia, New Delhi): Irrigations, Agrarian Conflict and the
colonial state: South Bihar (1880-1920)
D.R. Sikka (New Delhi): Major developments in the study of Indian Monsoons
and Monsoon Droughts in Historical Perspectives
Discussant: S. Irfan Habib (NISTADS)
(Tea Break 3.30pm to 3.45 pm)
Session IV
(3.45 pm to 5.15pm, December 4th, 2002 )
[Disease Ecology and Sanitation]
Chair : Nirmal Sen Gupta
Arabinda Samanta (Univ. of Burdwan) : Flood, Famine and Fever: Ecological
Construction of a Vicious Cycle in Colonial Bengal
Shirish N. Kavadi: Hookworm control, Sanitation and Public Health in the
Madras Presidency: The Rockefeller Campaign 1920-1928
Drub Kumar Singh (CHS, JNU): Cholera at two contrasting sites and cholera
in two contrasting pathies: A study in Nineteenth Century India
Discussant : Prof. Biswamoy Pati
Session V
(3.45 pm to 5.15pm, December 4th, 2002 )
[Interpreting Trends and Understanding Transformations: Perspectives on
the Environment]
Chair : Mridula Mukherjee
Mayank Kumar: Ecological History of Medieval India
(Satyawati College)
K. Lenin Babu ( Bangalore University): Changing Trends in Environmental Law
1972-2002
Aniket Alam (JNU): The Geography of Colonialism in the Western Himalayas
Laxman Satya (Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania): A Brief History of
British Imperialism and its Impact on the Berar Deccan
Discussant : Gunnel Cederlof
December 5th 2002
Session VI
(9.30 am to 11.00 am, December 5th, 2002)
[Conservation, Common Property and Decentralisation]
Chair : Shekhar Pathak
Ashwini Chatre (Duke University): The Mirage of Permanent Boundaries:
Conflict of Prescriptive conservation agendas and contingent state-society
relationships
Nehal A. Farooquee: Indigenous Knowledge, Community decision making and
conservation of natural resources in Uttaranchal Himalaya
Arun Bandhopadhyay (Univ. Calcutta): Three Issues from Common Property
resources Management: The History of Village Forestry in Post-colonial
South Asia
Discussant : Dr. Neeladhari Bhattacharya (CHS, JNU)
(Tea Break 11.00 am to 11.15 am)
Part II of Session VI
(11.15am to 12.45 pm, December 5th 2002)
Rajshekar Basu (Rabrindra Bharati Univ., Kolkata): Wastelands and the
debate on the Paraiyan issue in the late 19th century Tamil-Nadu
Gunnel Cederlof (Uppsala Univ., Sweden): The Agency of the Colonial
Subject: Claims and Rights in Early Nineteenth Century Nilgiris.
Discussant : Dr. Neeladhari Bhattacharya (CHS, JNU)
Session VII
(11.15am to 12.45 pm, December 5th 2002)
[Water Disputes and Water Users]
Chair : Nirmal Sen Gupta
Radha D'Souza (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand): The Tungabhadhra Disputes:
Law Technology and Inter-state water disputes under colonial rule
Pranab Mukhopadhyay (Goa University): Land-water Use in Goa under changing
Institutional reforms
Rekha Ranade (Univ. Pune): Water, Environment and the City of Pune in the
18th century.
Chetan Singh (H.P. Univ, Simla): Impact of Colonial Policy on Traditional
Water Management System in Shimla
Discussant : Rohan D'Souza (Univ. Sussex)
(Lunch break 12.45.pm to 2.00 pm, December 5th 2002)
Session VIII
(2.00pm to 3.30 pm, December 5th 2002)
[Disease Ecology and Sanitation]
Chair : Aditya Mukherjee
Mridula Ramana (Univ. Mumbai, SIES College): Perspectives on Sanitation:
Officials, Indian Doctors and Voluntary Organisation, Bombay 1900-1919
Rais Aktar (Univ. of Kashmir): Environment History of Health and Disease in
Kashmir during 1850-1900
Jayanta Bhattacharya : The Body, Epistemology and Colonial India: in Search
of a faux pas
Discussant: Dhruv Raina (JNU)
Session IX
(2.00pm to 3.30 pm, December 5th 2002)
[Nature as Culture]
Chair : Sucheta Mahajan
Tristram Stuart (Cambridge): Hinduism and Concepts of Nature in the 17th
century
Subashish Biswas (Calcutta): Christian Theology and Environmentalism in
India: Changing Perspectives
Kamlesh Mohan: (Punjab Univ.) Peasantry and Ecology: A View from the
Punjabi Folklore
Discussant : Aniket Alam
(Tea Break 3.30pm to 3.45pm)
Session X
(3.45pm to 5.15pm, December 5th 2002)
[Wildlife and Game: Perspectives and Policy]
Chair : Dilbagh Singh
Mahesh Rangarajan (Cornell Univ.): Faunal Extinctions and Colonial
Anxieties: Conservation Debates in Colonial India (870-1930)
Brijeshwar Oli and Sanjay Ghildiyal (Uttaranchal, Govt. P.G. College ):
Indian Spotted Dove (Ghughuti): Natural History and Folk Tradition in
Uttranchal
K.K. Trivedi (JNU): Ecology of Wild Animals in Mughal India
Discussant : Ravi Rajan (UC Santa Cruz)
Session XI
(3.45pm to 5.15pm, December 5th 2002)
[ Environmental Histories: Regional Perspectives]
Chair : Ranabhir Chakrabarthy (CHS, JNU)
Jayeeta Sharma : Towards an Environmental History of Assam
(Cambridge)
Shekhar Pathak : Environmental Histories in Uttaranchal
(Kumaon University)
Aparna Vaidic : The Wild and Eden: Forests of the Andaman Islands
Discussant : Bela Malik
December 6th 2002
Session XII
(9.30am to 11.00am, December 6th 2002)
[The Forest Site as Identity and Resistance]
Chair ; Beppe Karlson
Sanjukta Dasgupta (Calcutta): Colonial Forest Policy and Tribal Identity: A
Case Study of the Ho people of Singbhum
Daniel Rycroft (Univ. of Sussex): Environments and Visual Representation:
Adivasi identity in transit
Mahua Sarkar (Jadavpur University): In Search of a Social Ecology of
Tribal Resistance in Chotanagpur (1793-1878)
Smriti Kumar Sarkar (Kalyani University): Unseen Sources and Unknown
History: Exploring the Self-Image of the Forest-based Iron-smelting Tribes
of India 18th to 20th Centuries.
Discussant : Vinita Damodaran
Session XIII
(9.30am to 11.00am, December 6th 2002)
[Nature as Culture]
Chair : Visha Menon (Fellow, NMML)
G. Devanayagam (Tamil University): Cultural Landscape of Tamil-Nadu in
Pre-Christian Era
Rima Bartlett (Univ. College, London): From Planning to Placing: The role
of Plant names in Polynesian Thought
T.V. Venkateswaran (Trivandrum): "Nature" in popular culture representation
of the natural world in the popular science texts during the early
twentieth century in the Tamil-Nadu
Discussant : Deborah Sutton
(Tea Break 11.00am to 11.15 am)
Session XIV
(11.15am to 12.45pm, December 6th 2002)
[Forest Rights and Forest Economies]
Chair: Muhua Sarkar
Archana Prasad (Teen Murti): Non-Timber produce Economy in Jharkhand and
Chattisgarh 1850-2000
B.G. Karlsson (Uppasala University): Having Rights in forests: Conflicts of
Prescriptive conservation agendas and contingent state-society relationships
P.P. Bhojvaid : The Roots of sustainable forest management in India and
Southeast Asia
Discussant : Ashwini Chatre
Session XV
(11.15am to 12.45pm, December 6th 2002)
[National and Wilderness Areas: Debating Forests and Protection]
Chair : Mahesh Rangarajan
Ananya Mukherjee (University of Reading): Wilderness Areas: Genesis and Myths
Anjali Ravi: India's first National Park: The Creation of the Halley
National Park
Lutfun Rasul Saikia and Ajanta Bordoloi: National Parks of Assam : the
Treasure Trove.
Nelu Sharma (University of Pondicherry): History of Protected Areas in Kashmir
Discussant : Sunita Narain
(Lunch Break 12.45pm to 2.00pm, December 6th 2002)
Session XVI
(2.00pm to 3.30pm, December 6th 2002)
[River Control: History and Technology]
Chair : Nasir Tyabji
Anula Attanayake (University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka): River Control and
Hydraulic Technology in Pre-Colonial Sri-Lanka
Rohan D'Souza (Uni. of Sussex): "Protecting the Land and Regulating
Rivers": Colonial Agendas for Flood Control in Deltaic Orissa (1803-1928)
Eswar B. Rao (IIT, Chennai): Colonial Discourse on Dam technology and its
Consequences: A Study of Godavari Anicut
Discussant : Dunnu Roy
Session XVII
(2.00pm to 3.30pm, December 6th 2002)
[Agrarian History and the Environment]
Chair : Richard Grove (Univ. of Sussex)
Alka Michael (JNU): Crop Culture and Control: The Significance of Rice
Cultivation in the Brahmaputra Valley during the Pre-Ahom Period.
Ajit Menon (Trivandrum): Colonial Construction of "agrarian fields " and
"forests" in the Koli Hills and their present day legacy.
Bela Malik : "Yams and Sal": Taungya Cultivation in North East India
(JNU)
Discussant : Michael Mann (Univ. of Halle)
(Tea Break, 3.30pm to 3.45, December 6th 2002)
Session XIX
(3.45pm to 5.15pm, December 6th 2002)
[Ideology, Water and Public Works]
Chair: Prof. S. Bhattacharya
David Biggs (Univ. of Seattle): Historical and Cultural Dimensions of
Water in the Mekong Delta
Himanshu Prabha Ray (JNU): Water and environmental equilibrium: Buddhism
in Ancient South Asia: a Case Study.
Peter Schmitthenner (Virginia Tech): The environmental and cultural legacy
of colonial hydraulic projects in South Indian Deltas.
Christopher Hill (University of Colorado): Imperial Design: The Royal
Indian Engineering College and Public Works in Colonial India
Discussant : Nasir Tyabji
Session XX
(3.30pm to 5.15pm, December 6th 2002)
[Impacts and Historical Process: Reconsiderations on the Environment]
Chair: Indivar Kamtekar (CHS, JNU)
Harini Nagendra (Univ. of Indiana): Forests and Decentralization in Nepal:
Views across Time and Space.
Gordon Ingram (Vancouver): "Detecting the Past": Satellite Imagery in
Exploring Impacts of Historical Processes on land use and forest cover in
the Salt Range, Punjab, Pakistan
Stig Toft Madsen (NIAS, Denmark) : Risks, Interests and Choices in a
Farmers Movement in India.
Discussant : Rajat Dutta (CHS, JNU)
DECEMBER 7th, 2002
Session XX
(10.00am to 12.00pm, December 7th 2002)
[ Reflections on Environmentalism]
Chair: Deepak Kumar
Chitrabrata Palit (Jadavpur University): Two Cheers for the Environment:
Tagore and Gandhi
Keith Patrick Knuuti (East-West Center, Hawaii): "Weak States" and "Strong
States" : Political Use of the Environment in Pre-Modern Japan.
Santanu Chacraverti (Kolkata): Environmentalism: The thoughts of a worried
activist.
Discussant: Tristam Stuart
(Lunch Break 12.00pm to 1.30 pm)
Session XXI
(1.30 pm to 3.00pm, December 7th 2002)
Documentary Films by Vasant Saberwal
(Tea break 3.00pm to 3.15pm)
Session XXII
(3.15pm to 3.45pm, December 2002)
Slide Talk by Henry Noltie (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh)
on the Botanical Gardens of Edinburgh and India
Closing Session
(4.00pm to 6.00pm, December 2002)
PANEL DISCUSSION
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