The Tropics and the traveling gaze : India,landscape and science 1800 - 1856 / David Arnold
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TextSeries: Nature, culture, conservation seriesPublication details: New Delhi : Permanent Black, 2005Description: x, 298p. 22cmISBN: - 8178241293
- 304.20954 ARN
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| 304.2095 MIS Habitat Asia : | 304.2095 WHY The Spatial geography of rural economies / | 304.20954 AHM Social geography of India / | 304.20954 ARN The Tropics and the traveling gaze : | 304.20954 DHA Regional environmental history : | 304.20954 GAD This fissured land ; an ecological history of India / | 304.20954 HIL South Asia : |
This is a book about land, as well as about India-as that region of almost continental proportions came to be known to European travelers in the first half of the nineteenth century. Science and travel in colonial India is seen here as part of an interrelated process of observation and appropriation. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze is concerned with responses to an unfamiliar landscape, about the land as an object of colonial fear and desire, utility and aesthetics; it seeks to show how India, in passing under British control, was evaluated in ways that combined scenic delight and practical opportunity with a harsher appraisal of the country as a land of death and disease, of desolation and deficiency.
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