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India's Railway History: A Research Handbook

India's Railway History: A Research Handbook

John Hurd II

Velayutham Saravanan. “Commercialisation of forests, environmental negligence and alienation of tribal rights in Madras Presidency: 1792–1882”. IESHR. 35, 2 ( June): 125–46. —— 2003. Velayutham Saravanan. “Colonial commercial forest ...
Labour and poverty: studies on Uttar Pradesh

Labour and poverty: studies on Uttar Pradesh

U. Kalpagam

Pradesh,. 1947-2002*. Velayutham Saravanan Until the late eighteenth century or till colonial intervention, the tribals were managing forest resources out of which they made their livelihood/subsistence without any restriction. Previous rulers imposed no curbs on this. After colonial intervention, the forest resources were alienated/ controlled to meet the imperial requirements as well as commercial pursuits in different parts of the Indian subcontinent (Saravanan 1994 , 1998, 1999, 2001; ...
Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism ...

Sacred Groves and Local Gods: Religion and Environmentalism ...

Eliza F. Kent

Historian Velayutham Saravanan describes at least two other theories, based on ancient Tamil Sangam literature composed roughly between 100 bce to 300 ce. One posits that the Malaiyalis were Aryan migrants from the north who settled in ...
Enslaved Innocence: Child Labour in South Asia

Enslaved Innocence: Child Labour in South Asia

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Velayutham Saravanan the problem the problem ofchild labour in India continues to persist in different sectors of the economy both in the rural and the urban areas .the reasons for this have been attributed to several factors both at the macro- ...
Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using historical ...

Embedding Agricultural Commodities: Using historical ...

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Using historical evidence, 1840s–1940s Willem van Schendel. forest for their livelihood see Madhav Gadgil and Ramachandra Guha, This fissured land: an ecological history of India. (Delhi: Oxford, 1992); Velayutham Saravanan, ...
Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy: Indian Perspective

Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy: Indian Perspective

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Chapter 16 Export Earning Industries vs Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Tirupur Knitwear Industries in Tamil Nadu, 1980-2005 Velayutham Saravanan I. Introduction Environment and sustainable development has been accorded ...
Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India,1792–1947

Colonialism, Environment and Tribals in South India,1792–1947

Velayutham Saravanan

Crime of Anonymity«, in Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.P. Thompson and Cal Winslow (eds), Albin's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England, New York: Pantheon Books, 1975, p. 255; Ranajit Guha ...
Social Action

Social Action

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Velayutham Saravanan* I. The Argument Setting The government has initiated the liberalisation process in the industrial sector since the early 1980s, which concentrated mainly on the urban areas. Later, in early 1990s, the liberalisation policies further accentuated into different sectors of the economy leading to privatisation and globalisation. These liberalisation policies have minimised the state''s responsibility thereby encouraging privatisation in different sectors of the economy ...

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