Growing numbers of fee-paying 'volunteers' leave the UK each year to work on international
nature conservation projects. Powerful advocates argue that such volunteering offers active …

A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a
Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providing employment and commanding a …

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of
the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is also home to a violent movement for …

The editors utilize their 50 years of combined experience in professional engagement with
the behaviour and ecology of wild felids to draw together a unique network of the world's …

In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the
northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the …

This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free
definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Features a brief introduction to …

This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the 'next
pandemic'and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation …

The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth
century, it had become one of the world's most heavily irrigated and populated river basins …

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, Asia was at the heart of international efforts to
create a new utopia: a world free from disease. This is a political, intellectual and social …

The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its
valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do we know of this river's rich …