• Dr. Sebastian Joseph

Colonial interventions in the management of Indian environment had not been adverse to Indian interests on all occasions. Genuine concern on the part of scientifically knowledgea-ble colonial officers created a welter of documents on Indian nature including whether, defor-estation, desertification and decline of fertility of the land. These documents apart from point-ing to the profligate nature of the coloniser in natural resource exploitation had also connected such profligacy with the poor living condition it would exert on the vulnerable Indian popula-tion, especially, the farmers and adivasis. Environmentalism was enmeshed with humanism in such reports and surveys, but the colonial administrative authorities prevailed and enacted sole-ly for the continued extraction of land and natural resources in India. The paper pin points the dichotomous relation between the scientific texts and the political context of colonial rule.

forest, weather, environment, dessicationism

"TEXT AND PRETEXT: REPORT WRITING AND LAW MAKING ON ‘NATURE’ IN COLONIAL INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.c633-c640, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208269.pdf

"TEXT AND PRETEXT: REPORT WRITING AND LAW MAKING ON ‘NATURE’ IN COLONIAL INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppc633-c640, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208269.pdf