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Damodaran, Vinita, Kathayat, Gayatri, Sinha, Ashish, Breitenbach, Sebastian F M, Tan, Liancheng, Spotl, Christoph, Li, Hanying, Dong, Xiyu, Zhang, Haiwei, Ning, Youfeng, Allan, Robert J, Edwards, Lawrence R and Cheng, Hai (2022) Protracted Indian monsoon droughts of the past millennium and their societal impacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (39). e2207487119 1-9. ISSN 1091-6490

Damodaran, Vinita (2022) And red flows the Koina river: Adivasi resistance to the ‘loot’ of their land and resources in eastern India, 1980–2020. Modern Asian Studies, 56 (5). pp. 1642-1671. ISSN 1469-8099

Damodaran, Vinita and Padel, Felix (2018) Investment-induced displacement in central India. A study in extractive capitalism. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 38 (2). pp. 396-411. ISSN 1089-201X

Damodaran, Vinita (2017) Janaki Ammal, C.D. Darlington and J.B.S. Haldane: Scientific encounters at the end of Empire. Journal of Genetics, 96 (5). pp. 827-836. ISSN 0022-1333

Aisher, Alex and Damodaran, Vinita (2016) Introduction: human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens. Conservation and Society, 14 (4). pp. 293-304. ISSN 0972-4923

Allan, Rob, Endfield, Georgina, Damodaran, Vinita, Adamson, George, Hannaford, Matthew, Carroll, Fiona, Macdonald, Neil, Groom, Nick, Jones, Julie, Williamson, Fiona, Hendy, Erica, Holper, Paul, Arroyo-Mora, J. Pablo, Hughes, Lorna, Bickers, Robert and Bliuc, Ana-Maria (2016) Toward integrated historical climate research: the example of Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 7 (2). pp. 164-174. ISSN 1757-7780

Basu, Paul and Damodaran, Vinita (2015) Colonial histories of heritage: legislative migrations and the politics of preservation. Past and Present, 226 (Supp10). pp. 240-271. ISSN 0031-2746

Damodaran, Vinita (2013) Gender, race and science in twentieth century India: E.K. Janaki Ammal and the history of science. History of Science, 51 (3). pp. 283-307. ISSN 0073-2753

Damodaran, Vinita (2013) Indigenous agency: customary rights and tribal protection in Eastern India,1830–1930. History Workshop Journal, 76 (1). pp. 85-110. ISSN 1363-3554

Damodaran, Vinita (2007) Famine in Bengal: a comparison of the 1770 famine in Bengal and the 1897 famine in Chotanagpur. Medieval History Journal, 10 (1-2). pp. 143-181. ISSN 0971-9458

Damodaran, Vinita (2006) [Review] N C Durham (2005) Environmentality: technologies of government and the making of subjects. Journal for Asian Studies, 65 (4). pp. 837-838. ISSN 0021-9118

Grove, Richard and Damodaran, Vinita (2006) Imperialism, Intellectual Networks and Environmental Change: Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History, 1676-2000: Part II. Economic and Political Weekly, 41 (42). pp. 4497-4505. ISSN 0012-9976

Damodaran, Vinita (2006) The politics of marginality and the construction of indigeneity in Chotanagpur. Postcolonial Studies, 9 (2). pp. 179-196. ISSN 1466-1888

Damodaran, Vinita (2006) Colonial constructions of the 'tribe' in India: the case of Chotangapur. Indian Historical Review, 33 (1). pp. 44-76. ISSN 0376-9836

Damodaran, Vinita (2002) Gender, forests and famine in nineteenth century Chotanagpur, India. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 9 (2). pp. 133-163. ISSN 0971-5215

Damodaran, Vinita (2002) History, landscape and indigeneity in Chotanagpur, 1850-1980. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 25 (2). pp. 77-110. ISSN 0085-6401

Damodaran, Vinita (2001) Empires and images. History of European Ideas, 27 (2). pp. 181-189. ISSN 0191-6599

Damodaran, Vinita (1997) Environment ethnicity and history in Chotanagpur India 1850-1970. Environment and History, 3 (3). pp. 273-298. ISSN 0967-3407

Damodaran, Vinita (1995) Famine in a forest tract: ecological change and the causes of the 1897 famine in Chotanagpur, Northern India. Environment and History, 1 (2). pp. 129-158. ISSN 0967-3407

Damodaran, Vinita (1995) Bihar in the 1940s: Communities, riots and the state. Journal of South Asian Studies, 18 (S001). pp. 153-176. ISSN 0085-6401

Damodaran, Vinita (1992) Azad Dastas and dacoit gangs: The congress and underground activity in Bihar, 1942-44. Modern Asian Studies, 26 (3). pp. 417-450. ISSN 0026-749X

Damodaran, Vinita (1990) Violence in the countryside: agrarian unrest and communal rioting in Bihar 1946. Studies in History, 6 (1). pp. 67-94. ISSN 0257-6430

Book Section

Damodaran, Vinita (2022) Looking beyond the apocalypse: environmental crisis, colonial environmentalism and Eastern India’s tribal communities. In: Kowalewski, Jakub (ed.) The Environmental Apocalypse Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Climate Crisis. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032038063

Damodaran, Vinita, D’Souza, Rohan and Dey, Subir (2021) Uncertainty and environmental change: Kutch and Sundarbans as environmental histories of climate change. In: Mehta, Lyla, Adam, Hans Nicolai and Srivastava, Shilpi (eds.) The politics of climate change and uncertainity in India. Routledge, London, pp. 27-82. ISBN 9781032190792

Damodaran, Vinita (2021) Mosques, Gopurams, varied waters and stormy seas: built and natural environments of early Nineteenth Century Madras. In: Dickenson, Victoria (ed.) Women, Environment, and Networks of Empire: Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in Madras. McGill Queen's University Press, Toronto. (Accepted)

Damodaran, Vinita (2020) Climate, environment, and the colonial experience. In: Mayhew, Robert J and Withers, Charlie W J (eds.) Geographies of knowledge: science, scale, and spatiality in the nineteenth century. Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context . John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 215-234. ISBN 9781421438542

Damodaran, Vinita, Hamilton, James and Allan, Rob (2019) Climate signals, environment, and livelihoods in the Long Seventeenth Century in India. In: Mukherjee, Ayesha (ed.) A cultural history of famine: food security and the environment in India and Britain. Routledge Environmental Humanities . Routledge, Oxon, pp. 52-70. ISBN 9781138230927

Grove, Richard and Damodaran, Vinita (2018) Natural worlds. In: Loomba, Aniya (ed.) Cultural history of Western empires, 1450-1650. The Cultural Histories Series, 3 . Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 77-101. ISBN 9781474242752

Damodaran, Vinita, Allan, Rob, Ogilvie, Astrid E J, Demarée, Gastron R, Gergis, Joëlle, Mikami, Takehiko, Mikhail, Alan, Nicholson, Sharon E, Norrgård, Stefan and Hamilton, James (2018) The 1780s: global climate anomalies, floods, droughts, and famines. In: White, Sam, Pfister, Christian and Mauelschagan, Franz (eds.) The Palgrave handbook of climate history. Palgrave, London, pp. 517-550. ISBN 9781137430205

Damodaran, Vinita (2018) The impact of the anthropocene in the locality: Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century. In: Bhagwat, Shonil (ed.) Conservation and development in India: reimagining wilderness. Earthscan Conservation and Development . Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138922334

Damodaran, Vinita (2017) The locality in the Anthropocene: perspectives on the environmental history of Eastern India. In: Elliott, Alex, Cullis, James and Damodaran, Vinita (eds.) Climate Change and the Humanities. Palgrave, London, pp. 93-116. ISBN 978113755124-5

Damodaran, Vinita (2015) Environmental history. In: International encyclopaedia of the behavioural and social sciences, 2nd Edition. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 747-755. ISBN 9780080970868

Damodaran, Vinita (2015) East India company, famine and ecological conditions in eighteenth century Bengal. In: Damodaran, Vinita, Winterbottom, Anna and Lester, Alan (eds.) East India Company and the natural world. Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History . Palgrave, London, pp. 80-101. ISBN 9781349491094

Damodaran, Vinita (2013) Towards an environmental history of Chotanagpur: the land and the forests of Chotanagpur in the nineteenth century. In: Singh, Lata and Pati, Biswamoy (eds.) Colonial and contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand. Primus, Delhi, pp. 59-90. ISBN 9789380607924

Damodaran, Vinita (2012) Environmental history and empire, a survey of the field. In: Levine, Philippa and Marriott, John (eds.) The Ashgate research companion to modern imperial histories. Ashgate Research Companions . Ashgate. ISBN 9780754664154

Damodaran, Vinita (2012) Colonialism, imperialism and environmental history. In: Encyclopaedia of life support systems. UNESCO Publishing-Eolss Publishers, Oxford.

Damodaran, Vinita (2011) Globalisation and sacred adivasi landscapes of Eastern India. In: Daly, Patrick and Winters, Tim (eds.) Routledge handbook of heritage in Asia. Routledge, pp. 311-327. ISBN 9780415600453

Damodaran, Vinita (2011) Customary rights and resistance in the forests of Singhbhum. In: Rycroft, Daniel J and Dasgupta, Sanqeeta (eds.) The politics of belonging in India: becoming Adivasi. Routledge, pp. 103-118. ISBN 9780415600828

Damodaran, Vinita (2011) The British Raj, Gandhi and his practice of politics in India in the 1930s and 1940s. In: Harris, Mary, Csaba, Levai and Agnarsdottir, Anna (eds.) Global encounters, European identities. PLUS: Pisa University Press, Pisa, pp. 157-168. ISBN 9788884927385

Damodaran, Vinita (2009) Globalization and tribal histories in eastern India. In: McNeill, J R, Pádua, José Augusto and Rangarajan, Mahesh (eds.) Environmental history: as if nature existed. Oxford University Press India. ISBN 9780198064480

Damodaran, Vinita (2009) Environment and empire: a major theme in world environmental history. In: Harris N, Mary and Lévai, Csaba (eds.) Europe and its empires. Creating links and innovative overviews for a new history research agenda for the citizens of a growing Europe (3). PLUS-Pisa University Press, Pisa, pp. 129-139. ISBN 9788884925572

Grove, Richard and Damodaran, Vinita (2009) Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History. In: Sorlin, Sverker and Warde, Paul (eds.) Nature's End: History and the Environment. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230203464

Damodaran, Vinita (2007) Tribes in Indian history. In: Chakrabarti, Ranjan (ed.) Situating environmental history. Manohar. ISBN 9788173046834

Damodaran, Vinita (2006) Indigenous forests: rights, discourses, and resistance in Chotanagpur, 1860-2002. In: Cederlof, Gunnel and Sivaramakrishnan, K (eds.) Ecological nationalisms: nature, livelihoods, and identities in South Asia. Culture, place, and nature: studies in anthropology and environment . University of Washington Press. ISBN 9780295985312

Damodaran, Vinita (2006) Rights discourses and resistance in Chotangapur. In: Cederlof, Gunnel and Shivaramakrishnan, K (eds.) Ecological nationalisms: nature, livelihoods and identities in South Asia. Culture, place, and nature: studies in anthropology and environment . University of Washington Press, pp. 115-150. ISBN 9780295985312

Damodaran, Vinita (2006) British colonial perceptions of race and tribe in India in the nineteenth century. In: Levai, C (ed.) Europe and the world. Edizoni, pp. 161-175.

Grove, Richard and Damodaran, Vinita (2006) Imperialism and environmental change: unearthing the origins and evolution of global environmental history from Edmond Halley to John Richards: 1676-2000. In: Chakrabarti, Ranjan (ed.) Does environmental history matter?: shikar, subsistence, sustenance, and the sciences. Readers Service, Kolkata, pp. 35-86. ISBN 8187891610

Damodaran, Vinita (1997) Introduction. In: Grove, Richard H, Damodaran, Vinita and Sangwan, Satpal (eds.) Nature and the orient: The environmental history of south and southeast Asia. Studies in social ecology and environmental history . Oxford University Press, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780195638967

Conference or Workshop Item

Damodaran, Vinita and Unnithan, Maya (2000) Emerging perspectives on postcolonial India. In: International Conference on Identities, Nation State and Global Culture, UNIV SUSSEX, BRIGHTON, ENGLAND.

Book

Damodaran, Vinita (1993) Broken promises: Popular protest, Indian nationalism and the Congress party in Bihar, 1935-1946. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195629798

Edited Book

Damodaran, Vinita and D'Souza, Rohan, eds. (2020) Commonwealth forestry & environmental history: empire, forests and colonial environments in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia and New Zealand. Primus books, New Delhi. ISBN 9789389850178

Damodaran, Vinita, Martin, Maxmillan and Dsouza, Rohan, eds. (2019) Geography in Britain after World War II: nature, culture and etchings in time. Palgrave, Switzerland. ISBN 9783030283223

Elliott, Alex, Cullis, James William Storrs and Damodaran, Vinita, eds. (2017) Climate change and the humanities. Palgrave, London. ISBN 9781137551245

Damodaran, Vinita, Winterbottom, Anna and Lester, Alan, eds. (2015) The East India Company and the natural world. Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History . Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills. ISBN 9781137427267

Kumar, Deepak, Damodaran, Vinita and D'Souza, Rohan, eds. (2011) The British empire and the natural world: environmental encounters in South Asia. Oxford University Press India, New Delhi. ISBN 9780198069706

Damodaran, Vinita and Unnithan-Kumar, Maya (2004) Postcolonial India: History, Politics and Culture. Manohar.

Unset (2003) Postcolonial India: history, politics, and culture. Manohar Publishers and Distributors. ISBN 9788173043819

Grove, Richard H, Damodaran, Vinita and Sangwan, Satpal, eds. (1998) Nature and the Orient: Environmental History of South and South East Asia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 195638964

Edited Special Journal Issue

Aisher, Alex and Damodaran, Vinita, eds. (2016) Human-nature interactions through a multispecies lens. Conservation and Society, 14 (4). ISSN 0972-4923