The Hindu. Monday, April 4, 2011

"This book outlines a new and refreshing template for studies in environmental history and colonialism in South Asia.  By foregrounding the problem of ‘predicament,’ this book compellingly discusses environmental change and colonial power as being mutually shaped by contingency, surprise, dissonance, elisions and inevitably frustration."

"This book outlines a new and refreshing template for studies in environmental history and colonialism in South Asia.  By foregrounding the problem of ‘predicament,’ this book compellingly discusses environmental change and colonial power as being mutually shaped by contingency, surprise, dissonance, elisions and inevitably frustration."