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Author Philip, Kavita, 1964-

Title Civilizing natures : race, resources, and modernity in colonial South India / Kavita Philip.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- A local story : English mud -- Forests -- Plantations -- Ethnographers -- Christianity -- A global story : imperial science rescues a tree -- Conclusion.
Summary Annotation "An interdisciplinary exploration of science, nature, and race in colonial India."
Annotation Science was a central pillar of colonialism, but the converse holds true as well: colonialism profoundly shaped the character of nineteenth-century science. Civilizing Natures unravels unexpected relationships between science, technology, and administrative systems in colonial India from the 1850s to the 1930s, deepening our perspective on continuing conflicts over race, resources, and empire. Botanists, anthropologists, and foresters had their most important sources of data-nature and natives-located at colonial sites. In the hilly, forested regions of Madras Presidency, tribal populations were studied by ethnographers, managed by revenue officials, recruited by plantation contractors, and modernized by missionaries. Racial constructions of nature and modernity helped criminalize and domesticate unruly natives. This is a story about the construction of nature in southern India that is deeply local and irreducibly global. Through detailed case studies, Kavita Philip shows how race and nature are fundamental, to understanding colonial modernities. Through its insightful combination of methodologies from both the humanities and the social sciences, Civilizing Natures complicates our understandings of the relationships between science and religion, pre-modern and civilized, environment and society.
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Subject Science -- India, South -- History -- 19th century.
Science.
South India.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Science -- Social aspects -- India, South -- History -- 19th century.
Science -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Indexed Term Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Philip, Kavita, 1964- Civilizing natures. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004 0813533600 0813533619 (DLC) 2003005675 (OCoLC)51867943
ISBN 0813535352 (electronic book)
9780813535357 (electronic book)
9780813533605
0813533600 (Library Binding)
0813533619 (paperback ; alkaline paper)