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The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856

The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856

Arnold, David John
Sivaramakrishnan, K.

Paperback

Series: Culture, Place, and Nature

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 0295993839
ISBN13: 9780295993836
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Jun 1 2014
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Through its close examination of the correlation between tropicality and otherness, and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, the book offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. It will be of interest to historians of the environment, science, and colonialism; South Asianists; and cultural and environmental anthropologists and geographers.

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