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020			_a9780199499748
082			_a304.20954 CED
100			_aCederlöf, Gunnel
245			_aLandscapes and the law: environmental politics, regional histories, and contests over nature
260			_aNew Delhi: _bOxford University Press, _c2019.
300			_axxvii, 293p.: _bill; pbk.: _c22cm.
504			_aIncludes Bibliography and Index
520			_aLandscapes and the Law is situated at the crossroads of environmental, colonial, and legal history. It examines the role of law in consolidating early colonial rule from the perspective of people’s access to nature in forests and hill tracts. This major interdisciplinary study is thus concerned with the social history of legal processes and the making of law, being as relevant today as it was when first published a decade ago. The book is focused equally on the multitude of colliding claims for access to land and resources, and the complex ways in which customary rights are redefined and codified for the purpose of securing and legitimizing colonial sovereign rule. Basing her archival and field work on the Nilgiri Hills in South India, Gunnel Cederlöf explores conflicting perceptions of nature and political visions that are projected onto landscapes and people. She traces debates on property and land rights, and how the empirical sciences merge with the legal claims justifying land acquisition. Popular resistance strategies to such exploitation are analysed, and a cross-cultural comparison made between early legal processes and social history in India, New Zealand, and North America. https://india.oup.com/product/landscapes-and-the-law-9780199499748
650			_aEnvironment Policy
650			_aLegal History
650			_aHuman Ecology
650			_aEnvironmental Law
650			_aColonies--Law and Legislation
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