Devika Shankar: An Encroaching Sea | Buch

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Beschreibung

Ecological and political instability have time and again emerged as catalysts for risky development projects along India's south-west coastline. Devika Shankar probes this complicated relationship between crisis and development through a focus on a port development project executed in Cochin in the first quarter of the twentieth century amidst significant political and ecological uncertainty. While ecological concerns were triggered by increasing coastal erosion, a political crisis was precipitated by a neighbouring princely state's unprecedented attempt to extend its sovereignty over the British port. This integrative environmental, legal, and political history brings together the history of British India and the princely states to show how these anxieties ultimately paved the way for an ambitious port development project in the final years of colonial rule. In the process it deepens our understanding of environmental transformations and development in modern South Asia and the uneven nature of colonial sovereignty.

Über den Autor

Devika Shankar is an assistant professor of history at the University of Hong Kong.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. A coast of curiosities; 2. Shifting sands and fluid frontiers; 3. A slippery sovereignty; 4. The making of a natural harbour; 5. A perilous port; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781009533683
ISBN-10:	1009533681
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Shankar, Devika
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Devika Shankar
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2024
Gewicht:	0,554 kg