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Centre for World Environmental History

Nature in the Raj: Colonial Environments and Indigenous Knowledge

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Schedule

International Workshop (August 18th & 19th 2006)

"Nature in the Raj: Colonial Environments and Indigenous Knowledge"

[Organised by the Centre for Studies in Science Policy (CSSP, Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频), Centre for World Environmental History ( CWEH, Sussex 5X社区视频) and Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML, New Delhi)]

DAY I

(August 18th, Friday, 2006)

Session (1)

9 am -10.30 am

Introductory Remarks

Interdisciplinary Approaches: History and the Environment

Shir K. Jaya Kumar (Director Teen Murti)

Prof. Richard Grove (Australian National 5X社区视频)

Dr Shekhar Pathak (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library)

Prof. Juan Martinez Alier (Barcelona 5X社区视频)

Prof. V.V. Krishna (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

Chair: Prof. Deepak Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

10 am - TEA BREAK - 10.30 am

Session (2)

10.30 am -1.30 pm

Knowledge's

Chair: Prof. Richard Grove (Australian National 5X社区视频)

Introductory Lecture

Dunu Roy (Hazard Centre, New Delhi)

'Perspectives on the Environment: Rethinking the Old and the New"

Prof. Mark Harrison (Oxford Univ.)

Paper: "Beyond the Boundaries of Empire: Nathaniel Wallich (1786-1854) and the Transmission of Botanical Knowledge to Europe"

Discussant: Prof. Neeladri Bhattacharya (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

Harsh Dobhal (Editor Combat Law)

Paper: "Photography as Visual History: Documenting the Memory of Tehri"

Discussant: Dr Vasant Saberwal (Ford Foundation, New Delhi)

1.30 pm -LUNCH- 2.30 pm

SESSION (3)

2.30 pm - 4.30 pm

Waters

Chair: Dr. Rohan D'Souza (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

Dr Mayank Kumar (Delhi 5X社区视频.)

Paper: "Water, State and Society in Pre-Colonial Rajasthan"

Discussant: Dr. Meena Bhargava (Delhi 5X社区视频)

Debjyoti Das (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频):

Paper: "Natural Hazard and the Brahmaputra River Basin: State design, Floods and People's perceptions in Majuli Island"

Discussant: Bela Malik (independent researcher)

Dr Praveen Singh (CISED, Bangalore)

Paper: 'Colonial Interventions and Flood Control in North Bihar, 1850-1954".

Discussant : Dunu Roy (Hazard Centre)

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4.30 pm -TEA BREAK- 4.45 pm

SESSION (4)

4.45 pm - 6.15pm

Fauna

Chair: Dr Mahesh Rangarajan (Jadavpur 5X社区视频)

Divyabhanusinh Chavda (Independent researcher)

Paper: "Junagadh State and its Lions: Conservation in Princely India (1877-1947)"

Discussant: Radhika Govindarajan (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

Dr Hitendra J. Maurya & Dr Adhya Saxena ( Maharaja Sayajirao 5X社区视频 of Baroda, Vadodara)

Paper: "Mapping The Use And Abuse Of Nature In The Territory Of The Princely States Of South Gujarat: A Study In Their Flora -Fauna Potentialities And The Process Of Deforestation And Conservation c. 1750- c. 1960".

Discussant: Mudit Trivedi (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

Dr Ranjan Chakrabarti (Jadavpur 5X社区视频)

Paper: "The Sundarbans, Badamiyan, History, Nature and Landscape"

Discussant: Dr Archana Prasad (Jamia Milia Islamia)

DAY 2

(August 19th 2006)

SESSION (5)

9 am - 11.15am

Forests & Lands

Chair: Dr. Shekhar Pathak (NMML)

Dr. Sudha Vasan (IIT, Mumbai)

Paper: "Forest settlements in the Raj: Persistent Diversity in Forest Property Regimes in Himachal Pradesh"

Discussant: Dr. Pranab Mukhopadhyay (SANDEE, Nepal)

Dr Dhirendra Dangwal (Himachal Pradesh 5X社区视频)

Paper: " Appropriate Forestry Knowledge and the Training of Imperial Forest Service: Issues and Implications"

Discussant: Dr. Deborah Sutton (Lancaster 5X社区视频)

Ashok Kumar Sen (Researcher Tribal History, Chaibasa, Jharkhand)Paper: "Indigenous and Colonial Environmental Legacies -Collaboration and
Conflict: The Ho of Kolhan during 1700 - 1918" Discussant: Dr. Savyasaachi (Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi)

11.15am-TEA BREAK-11.30am

SESSION(6)

11.30am-1.30am

Forests & Lands

Chair: Dr. Gunnel Cederlof (Uppsala 5X社区视频, Sweden)

Dr Savyasaachi (Jamia Milia Islamia):

Paper: " Nature in Discourses of Deforestation and Conservation"

Discussant: Dr Amar Farooqui (Delhi 5X社区视频)

Ritupan Goswami (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

Paper: "Rights over Nature: Coal-mining in Eastern Assam, 1840-1914"

Discussant: Nandini Dutta (Delhi 5X社区视频)

Dr Velayathan Saravanan (Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad)

Paper: "Colonialism and Environment: Commercialisation of Forests and decline of tribals in Madras Presidency, 1882-1947"

Discussant: DrBiswamoy Pati (Delhi 5X社区视频)

1.30pm-LUNCH-2.30pm

SESSION (7)

2.30pm-4.30pm

Futures

Chair: Prof. Mark Harrison (Oxford 5X社区视频)

Dr Pranav Desai (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频).

Paper: " Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Protection: Colonial Roots and the Implications for the Futures"

Discussant: Dr. Vikram Dayal (Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi)

Dr Mahesh Rangarajan (Visiting Professor, Jadavpur 5X社区视频)

Paper: "Indira Gandhi Unrehearsed: Statecraft, Ideology and the Environment, 1966-84"

Discussant: Prof. Deepak Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru 5X社区视频)

Gopinath Sricandan (Independent Researcher, Pondicherry)

Paper: "Colonial Naturalists, independent Indians and the exotic wildlife - A Photographer's view".

Discussant: Pallava Bagla (Photographer, Corvis images)

4.30pm-TEA BREAK-4.45pm

SESSION (8)

4.45pm-6.00pm

Chair Dr. Vinita Damodaran (Sussex 5X社区视频)

Discussion and Summing Up

Gunnel Cederlof (Uppsala 5X社区视频)

Mahesh Rangarajan (Jadavpur 5X社区视频)

Richard Grove (Australian National 5X社区视频)