Parhaat Environmental History Podcastit (2025)

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Construction of Big Monuments in Era of Climate Change 1:57

6M ago1:57

1:57

Climate Change in India

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Bengal Delta: Formation as a ‘Frontier Zone’ 1:01:31

1+ y ago1:01:31

1:01:31

In this talk I explain how the eastward shift of the Ganga and consequential silt deposition in Bengal over the centuries have led to new land formation and settlements.

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Four Pests Campaign in China 15:28

1+ y ago15:28

15:28

The episode tells you the story of Mao’s mobilisation of people to kill pests and birds in China in late 1950s and early 60s, and how it had negatively affected country’s economy and health.

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Big Dams as ‘Creative Destruction’ 1:11:15

1+ y ago1:11:15

1:11:15

Why should we call big dams as ‘creative destruction’? In the present talk we will see how the Twentieth century witnessed big Dam constructions all around the globe and why they were considered the symbols of economic development. How through such creation, humans tried to dominate nature. We will see that the problem lies in the philosophy of man…

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Ecological Imperialism and Transfer of Eucalyptus from Australia to India 58:43

2y ago58:43

58:43

The episode discusses the introduction of eucalyptus in India and brings into the analysis Alfred Crosby’s hypothesis of Ecological Imperialism. In the later part of the episode the case of Andaman Island showcases the unique qualities of ecological imperialism.

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Social History of the Mughal Army 55:58

2y ago55:58

55:58

The discussion brings into focus the works of Dirk Kolff and Jos Gommans.

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Shershah’s Relations with Rajputs 1:11:40

2+ y ago1:11:40

1:11:40

Vipul Singh explains how the much celebrated Akbar’s Rajput Policy was already experimented by Shershah in the mid-Ganga basin. In that sense Shershah’s Relationship with the Purabia Rajputs was precursor to Mughal-Rajput relations.

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अहोम साम्राज्य की स्थापना: धान की गीली खेती एवं मिलिशिया प्रणाली 29:40

4+ y ago29:40

29:40

एक शक्तिशाली अहोम साम्राज्य की स्थापना कैसे हुई और इसके उदय एवं पतन दोनों में मिलिशिया प्रणाली की भूमिका क्या रही इस वार्ता का मुख्य बिंदु है .

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देशज या वर्नैक्युलर साहित्य 36:19

4+ y ago36:19

36:19

प्रारम्भिक आधुनिक काल के क्षेत्रीय इतिहास लेखन में देशज साहित्य कैसे उपयोगी हैं और इसको कब से इतिहासकारों ने ऐतिहासिक श्रोत के रूप में देखना शुरू किया .

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Story of the Ahom Success in the Brahmaputra Valleys 34:57

4+ y ago34:57

34:57

The lecture talks about their success story right from their migration in to Assam to introduction of militia system and wet rice cultivation.

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Story of Madhumalti: The Context 25:47

4+ y ago25:47

25:47

This lecture is about the 16 the century Vernacular Literature Madhumalti. I tell you the significance of the text as a historical source.

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Padmavat as a Historical Source 47:46

4+ y ago47:46

47:46

How do we use Jayasi’s Padmavat as a historical source?

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ऐतिहासिक श्रोत पद्मावत 36:19

4+ y ago36:19

36:19

हम पद्मावत को एक ऐतिहासिक श्रोत के रूप में किस प्रकार इस्तेमाल कर सकते हैं .

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Vernacular Literature 2: Premakhyans as Media of its Time 22:31

4+ y ago22:31

22:31

What the three linked historical processes that we find in the Premakhyans or Love Stories?

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Vernacular Literature 1: Vernaculars as Source of History 25:00

4+ y ago25:00

25:00

In this talk Vipul Singh tells you how historians in the past have erred by reducing the vernacular text’s historicity to facticity, which is not correct.

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Flood Management in Bihar: Environment Friendly and Hard Structures of Control 14:29

4+ y ago14:29

14:29

In this talk Dr Vipul Singh traces the history of flood control and advocates the benefits of traditional embankments in a riverine flood plain of mid-Ganga basin.

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मध्य गंगा क्षेत्र की भौगोलिक बाधाएँ 1:04:58

4+ y ago1:04:58

1:04:58

लिबेरमन की एक्सपोज्ड ज़ोन की आलोचनात्मक व्याख्या

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लिबेरमन के एक्सपोज़्ड ज़ोन की परिकल्पना 23:49

4+ y ago23:49

23:49

हिंदी

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Exposed Zone Hypothesis of Victor Lieberman 45:44

4+ y ago45:44

45:44

The lecture tells you about the protected and exposed zones hypothesis given by Victor Lieberman in his book Strange Parallels.

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अन्य अभिलेख एवं प्रॉक्सी रेकार्ड 1:14:31

4+ y ago1:14:31

1:14:31

पूर्वी भारत के इतिहास को पढ़ने के लिए कौन से श्रोत उपयोगी हो सकते हैं

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Beyond Politics and Economy: Towards a New Approach 52:21

4+ y ago52:21

52:21

What are the new ways of studying history? Where does environmental history fit in?

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क्षेत्रीय राज्यों के इतिहास की प्रासंगिकता 27:21

4+ y ago27:21

27:21

भारत के मध्यकालीन इतिहास में क्षेत्रीय राज्यों के इतिहास की खामोशी के पीछे क्या कारण हैं ?

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Eastern India in Transition 0:32

4+ y ago0:32

0:32

Why History of Regions in India are significant?

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Eastern India in Transition 38:14

4+ y ago38:14

38:14

This is the first episode of Eastern India in Transition Series. In this Vipul Singh talks about the significance of regional histories and reasons behind its long neglect in Indian mainstream historiography.

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Resources exploitation and nature protection in the border lands of Qing China 25:01

6y ago25:01

25:01

Much research has been devoted to the impact of the expanding European empires and settler colonies in the 18thand 19thcenturies and their impacts on nature and resources. Not much attention has been paid to a similar story unfolding at the same time in Qing China: the increasing expansion of the exploitation of natural resources such as fur, mushr…

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Incendiary politics: histories of Indigenous Burning and Environmental Debates in Australia and the United States 28:51

6+ y ago28:51

28:51

The 2018 wildfires around the globe have been dramatic, prompting headlines about the world being on fire. The 2018 fire season is unusual in that so many places are experiencing major fires at the same time. California and some areas in Australia were hard hit, but these places are used to wildfires. The political aftermath of catastrophic firesto…

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The timber frontier of Northern Sweden: a history of ecological and social transformation 27:21

6+ y ago27:21

27:21

Sweden is one of the largest timber exporters in Europe. The country has been an exporter since at least the early modern period. That is not surprising because pine and spruce forests cover large parts of northern Sweden. These forests are part of the single largest land biome on earth, stretching along the pole circle of Eurasia and North America…

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Forestry in northern Europe: National Histories, Shared Legacies 36:41

7y ago36:41

36:41

Forest history in Europe is often focussed on individual nation states. It is true that all European countries have unique forest histories played out in their national contexts. But there are common traits that all northern European countries share. For example, modern forestry started as an enlightenment project aimed at rationally managing resou…

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Kangaroos and tanks: histories of militarised landscapes in Australia 24:11

7y ago24:11

24:11

Military operations can have repercussions for environments and landscapes a long way from the battlefields. In the case of Australia most military action during the 20th century happened far from its shores, apart from the incidental bombing by the Japanese of Darwin and a few other northern coastal towns during World War II. It is therefore surpr…

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The Watery ally: military inundations in Dutch history 33:21

7+ y ago33:21

33:21

For centuries, the Dutch have fought against their arch-enemy: water. But, during the Dutch War of Independence in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Dutch found an ally in their arch enemy. Their struggle against Spain seemed almost hopeless because the rebels were facing the best trained, supplied and funded European army of that era. As the underd…

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Water pollution in the Dutch Peat Colonies of Groningen, 1850-1980 13:17

8y ago13:17

13:17

In the mid-19th century the first potato starch and strawboard factories were established in the Groningen Peat Colonies (Veenkoloniën) in the Northern Netherlands. The number of factories increased until there more than thirty in 1900. These industries brought jobs but also water pollution and stench caused by the released thousands of cubic metre…

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Water resilience in Western Australia since European Colonisation 36:31

8+ y ago36:31

36:31

When European Settlers arrived in Western Australia they brought their own conceptions of water security and agriculture with them. Initially the land around what is now Perth was presented as a green and pleasant land. But the reality was very different. The water supply of south Western Australia fluctuates throughout the year and as a result, gr…

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Environmental History of Tidal Power in the Severn Estuary 34:31

8+ y ago34:31

34:31

In recent decades the interest in renewable energy from sources such as wind, solar and tidal power has steadily increased. However, this interest in harnessing “mother nature’s” energy is not new. Over the past 160 years the Severn estuary has been the focus of numerous proposals to provide a transport route over the estuary, improve navigation an…

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Cultured nature: The Nature Scenery Act of the Netherlands 32:02

8+ y ago32:02

32:02

When thinking of national parks most people think of famous examples like Yellow Stone and Yosemite in the United States or the Serengeti in Tanzania. These parks are large in scale with an emphasis on wild life conservation and the preservation of scenic landscapes. Human activity and presence are restricted and regulated and people are visitors. …

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Contested climate: the debate on the climatic influence of forests - episode 2 20:23

9y ago20:23

20:23

How does one go about researching over a century of newspapers on the topic of the climatic influence of forests resulting in a few million hits? This was the daunting task facing Stephen Legg, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in History in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University. His research into the 1…

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Contested climate: the debate on the climatic influence of forests – episode 1 28:27

9y ago28:27

28:27

Dating back to classical antiquity in the western world, the contested notion that climate was changing due principally to the human impact on forests was strongly revived in the mid-nineteenth century. Foresters and botanists, many of whom were employed as public servants, led the revival. They argued on the basis of the lessons of history and sci…

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Somerset, a ‘green and pleasant’ energy landscape? 22:01

9y ago22:01

22:01

With its agro-pastoral landscape of hedgerows, fields, and rolling hills and levels, often-sleepy Somerset may be the very picture of rural England – the quintessential ‘green and pleasant land’. To reinforce this, the area gained a variety of landscape and environmental designations over the course of the twentieth century, including Exmoor Nation…

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The Oldest Geordie: Environmental History of the River Tyne 26:56

9y ago26:56

26:56

Rivers are at the heart of defining the identity and lifestyle of many cities around the world, and that is nowhere stronger than in Newcastle on Tyne in the Northeast of England on the banks of the River Tyne. The people who live on the banks of the Tyne are fiercely proud of their river. Once the river was an industrial powerhouse of the British …

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Religion and the Origins of American Environmentalism 34:00

9+ y ago34:00

34:00

Ever since Lynn White’s 1967 essay on “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis”, it is common to read in many publications that Christianity is both too anthropocentric and not much concerned with the protection of nature and the environment. Subsequently the environmental movement has developed along very secular lines using science to underpi…

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Out of this world: environmental history of near-Earth space 32:46

9+ y ago32:46

32:46

Since the early days of the Space Age spent rocket stages, decommissioned satellites, and rubbish of all kinds have contaminated near-Earth space. At present more than 100 million pieces of human-made debris ranging in size from dead satellites to flecks of paint whiz around the Earth at incredibly fast speeds. This cloud of space junk poses a thre…

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The UK National Grid: history of an energy landscape and its impacts 25:01

10y ago25:01

25:01

We take electricity for granted and do not think of where it comes from when we switch on a light or use an electrical appliance. But behind the electricity coming out of a wall socket lays an entire energy landscape of poles, wires, electrical substations and power stations. It is imposed on the landscape like a gigantic web, a grid that has becom…

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Environmental history of a hydrological landscape: the soughs of Derbyshire 22:31

10y ago22:31

22:31

Under the Peak District of Derbyshire is an subterranean network of drainage tunnels, the so-called soughs that were used to drain the lead mines of the region. Up till the 16th century most lead mining In the Peak District done on the surface and miners followed horizontal seams. By then the surface seams were exhausted and miners had to sink shaf…

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Tin: a historical perspective on a networked resource 34:21

10y ago34:21

34:21

The history of human civilization is closely linked to the exploitation of mineral resources. It is no coincidence that the periodization of prehistory and antiquity has been chosen according to the main metals in use: stone, bronze and iron. It shows the centrality of the exploitation and production of these mineral resources in human history. Sin…

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Climate variability and population dynamics in prehistoric Australia 25:01

10+ y ago25:01

25:01

The first people to settle in Australia, ancestors of present day Aboriginals, arrived in Australia about 50,000 years ago. They took advantage of the lower sea levels that were the norm throughout the last 100,000 years and were the result of a cooling global climate - part of the last ice age cycle. The first people who entered Australia encounte…

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Who is responsible for global warming? 16:28

10+ y ago16:28

16:28

Who is responsible for global warming? That is a question that has dominated recent climate negotiations, most notably the failed 2009 climate convention in Copenhagen. Developing countries were putting the responsibility for historic carbon emissions and thus global warming on the developed nations. Developed nations on the other hand demanded tha…

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The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progresss 28:37

10+ y ago28:37

28:37

Australia is a country of extremes: it can be extremely hot and dry but also wet and prone to very big floods and its soils are poor and thin. Regardless of these extremes farmers have carved out livelihoods in his hostile environment. It is the story of how Australian farmers have tried to grow food and cotton, and conserve the environment, with a…

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Origins, entanglements and civic aims of the early forestry movement in the United States 34:41

11y ago34:41

34:41

While the origins of forestry in the United States have been the topic of sustained interest amongst environmental and forest historians, the history of the early forestry movement itself remains neglected. This is partly due to the manner in which later professional foresters often air brushed their “forest sentimentalist” predecessors out of the …

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A sustainable common future? The Brundtland Report in historical perspective 35:21

11y ago35:21

35:21

The term sustainability and phrase sustainable development were popularised with the publication of Our Common Future, a report released by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987. Also known as the Brundlandt report, it introduced the widely quoted definition of sustainable development: -development which meets the needs of the…

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Environmental Humanities: something new under the sun? 26:46

11y ago26:46

26:46

Solutions to environmental issues such as climate change, toxic waste, deforestation and species extinction, have been mainly framed as scientific, technological and economic problems. The slow progress of dealing with these issues has made us realise that science and technology do not have all the answers. Increasingly the humanities are called up…

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Events in the collective environmental memory of humanity 25:01

11y ago25:01

25:01

What are the most important events in the collective environmental memory of humanity? In the spring of 2013 a group of environmental historians from around the globe was confronted with this very question. They were asked to nominate one event that, in their opinion, should be part of this collective memory. This was part of a survey for a special…

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