| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Ajay Skaria. Hybrid Histories: Forests, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India. (Studies in Social Ecology and Environmental History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 324. $35.00.

This is a bold attempt to offer complex, multilayered and interweaving narratives of the pasts of the hill peoples of western India in the regions inland from Surat and Daman. It constitutes an exercise not only in social ecology and environmental history but also in oral accounts and redefinitions and refigurings of the relationships between Indians and British imperial rulers, seeking to cast aside the modernist thrust of most history writing. A central theme is the manner in which ascriptions of masculinity and femininity were given to specific activities and particular peoples, both among themselves and by the British. Another is the way in which conflicting cultures not only construct the environment in socially meaningful ways but also set about transforming it in order to fulfill social, economic, and cultural norms. . . .

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