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This book underscores the colonial psyche in articulating conservation policies and uncovers strategies that have been overlooked in the literature on the Environmental history of the Bombay Presidency. Drawing on rich archival sources and some significant secondary literature, this book traces the history of citified infrastructural developments in building warships, houses, bungalows, public buildings, railways and in the manufacturing of furniture in Bombay and the Bombay Presidency that eventually triggered urbanization. Correspondingly, the subject of deforestation of western India in three distinctive phases and ensuing afforestation, which fed the needs of the empire, is also highlighted.

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Louiza Rodrigues is Professor and Head in the Department of History, Ramnarain Ruia College, Mumbai. Her area of specialization is Environmental History, Urban History, Genealogy, and Modern India. She has to her credit major research projects from the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute of Mumbai, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Mumbai University and Exeter University for Gulf Studies, UK.

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