Does Environmental History Matter?: Shikar, Subsistence, Sustenance and the Sciences

Ranjan Chakrabarti was previously Vice-Chancellor of Vidyasagar University and Netaji Subhas Open University. He is currently Hony. Visiting Professor at Jadavpur University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Royal Global University, Guwahati. He was a Senior Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University, USA (1994-5), and a recipient of the prestigious Charles Wallace Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), the Alexander O'Vietor Memorial Fellowship (at Brown University) and twice recipient of the Alfred Bell Memorial Fellowship at the Forest History Society (at Duke University). His notable publications include, among others, Order and Disorder in Early Colonial Bengal, 1800-1860; Climate Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta; A History of the Modern World; and Dictionary of Historical Places.