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The East India Company and the Natural World

Workshop held by the Centre for World Environmental History

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Friday 8^th June 2007, Russell Buildings 33

10.45 - 11.00 Introduction: Vinita Damodaran (Â鶹ӳ»­)

11. 00 - 12.00 Panel 1: EIC as agents of environmental change

Vinita Damodaran (Â鶹ӳ»­)

Settlement narratives of Singhbhum and the collection of
ethnographic knowledge

Daniel Rycroft (University of East Anglia)

Sherwill and the construction of an imperial landscape: the
Rajmahal Hills in the mid nineteenth century

Discussant: Pauline von Hellermann (Â鶹ӳ»­)

12.00 - 13.00 Panel 2: EIC and scientific networks.

Deepak Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Botanical Explorations and the East India Company:
Revisiting Plant Colonialism

Mark Harrison (Oxford University)

Beyond the Boundaries of Empire: Nathaniel Wallich (1786-
1854) and the Transmission of Botanical Knowledge to Europe

 Discussant: Alan Lester (Â鶹ӳ»­)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 15.00 Panel 3: EIC and scientific networks.

Jim Endersby (Cambridge University)

'A sort of wicked satisfaction': Joseph Hooker and the Flora
Indica

Henry Noltie (Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh)

Robert Wight and his European collaborators

Discussant: Alan Lester (Â鶹ӳ»­)

15.00 - 16.00 Panel 4: EIC Administrative responses: Irrigation and Flood
Control

Rohan DSouza (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Mischievous River and Evil Shoals: The East India Company and
the Bengal Rivers

Peter Mollinga (University of Bonn)
Learning and unlearning in water resources management history
in South Asia: the cases of irrigation and flood control

Discussant: Esha Shah (Institute of Development Studies)

16.00 - 16.30 Tea

16.30 - 17.00 Panel 5: EIC and observations of environmental change

Alfred Grove (Cambridge University)

The complexity of the El Niño-Indian famine relationship
in the era of the East India Company

Discussant: Don Funnell (Â鶹ӳ»­)

17.00 - 18.00 Roundtable discussion