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100			_a"Cederlof, Gunnel"
245		0	_aLandscapes and the law
260			_aRanikhet
260			_bPermanent black
260			_c2008
300			_a300p.
365			_b9000
365			_dRS
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. It is concerned thus with the social history of legal processes and the making of law. The book is focused equally on the multitude of colliding claims to land and resources, and the complex ways by which customary rights in nature 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 legal claims justifying land acquisition. Popular resistance strategies against such exploitation are analysed, and a cross-cultural comparison made between early legal processes and social history in India, New Zealand, and North America.
650			_aEnvironmental politics
942			_cB _2ddc