NOTES
INTRODUCTION
1. Carter, Road.
2. Thomas, Colonialismâs Culture, 2.
3. Taussig, Shamanism, 334â5.
4. Writers sometimes referred, as in Europe, to the âenvironsâ of a town or village. The term âecologyâ was similarly not used in scientific literature in India before the 1900s.
5. For example, Arnold, Colonizing; Grove, Damodaran, and Sangwan, Nature; Harrison, Climates.
6. Cohnâs other modalities were historiography, surveying, enumeration, museology, and surveillance, though clearly some of these, especially the last, overlap with observation and travel. Cohn, Colonialism, 5â11.
7. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism.
8. A classic statement of this was Thomson, âNatives;â but many Europeans believed India capable of environmental amelioration, including measures that would eliminate disease, curb drought, transform agriculture and facilitate white settlement. This book is not primarily concerned, however, with European acclimatization in the tropics. See Anderson, Cultivation; Harrison, Climates; Livingstone, âClimateâs Moral Economy.â
9. Cosgrove and Daniels, Iconography, 1; also Cosgrove, âSocial Formation.â
10. Notably Carter, Road; Griffiths and Robin, Ecology; Neumann, Imposing Wilderness. See also the âIntroductionâ to Beinart and McGregor, Social History, 4â6, 14â15, for the importance of landscape traditions in colonial Africa.
11. Green, Spectacle. The landscape as âthe work of the mindâ has also been tellingly discussed by Schama, Landscape, though, as will be evident from the early chapters of this book, in this case the âmemoryâ evoked by Indian landscapes was often of landscapes that lay elsewhereâin Britain or in âtropicalâ Brazil and the West Indies.
12. Drayton, Natureâs Government, and Guha, Rule. While excellent in its coverage of the metropolitan forces behind nineteenth-century âimprovement,â and especially those that emanated from Kew Gardens, Draytonâs study fails to recognize the extent to which such ideas and practices had acquired a dynamic force of their own within colonial territories like India by the early decades of the century and were not dependent upon repeated stimulus from Kew. Equally, as this study will try to show, economic botany was only one of the ways in which botany served the empire and its colonizing ambitions.
13. As in the case of French and German influences on âscientific forestryâ in late nineteenth-century India: see Rajan, âImperial Environmentalism.â
14. Said, Orientalism.
15. Not all historians would agree: see Harrison, Climates, for a dissenting view. The main arguments for the present claim will be found here in chapters 4â6.
16. See Dunlap, Nature.
17. Bayly, Empire; Raj, âColonial Encounters.â For the âdialogicâ idea, see Irschick, Dialogue.
18. E.g., Dirks, âIntroduction.â
19. Pratt, Imperial Eyes, 4, 6.
20. As this book is concerned with European travel, it does not seek to address the question of Indian travel and its relation to the âcolonial gaze,â about which a significant literature has begun to emerge: e.g., Grewal, Home, chapter 4.
21. E.g., Sangwan, âStrength.â
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