Download or read book The East India Company and the Natural World written by V. Damodaran and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the deep and lasting impacts of the largest colonial trading company, the British East India Company on the natural environment. The contributors – drawn from a wide range of academic disciplines - illuminate the relationship between colonial capital and the changing environment between 1600 and 1857.