Deepak Kumar, Vinita Damodaran and Rohan D'Souza: IntroductionPart I. Environmental Imaginations and Empire1. Aparna Vaidik: The Wild Andamans: Island Imageries and Colonial Encounter2. Daniel Rycroft: Walter Sherwill and the Visual Representation of Colonial Authority in Mid-nineteenth Century India by Daniel RycroftPart II. Making Natural Resources for Empire3. Christopher V. Hill: Imperial Design: The Royal Indian Engineering College and Public Works in Colonial India4. Deborah Sutton: Redeeming Wood by Destroying the Forest: Shola, Plantations and Colonial Conservancy on the Nilgiris in the Nineteenth Century5.

Jayeeta Sharma: Making Garden, Erasing Jungle: The Tea Enterprise in Colonial AssamPart III. Impacts and Negotiations: The Empire's Ecological Footprints6. B. Eswara Rao: Taming Liquid Gold' and Dam Technology: A Study of the Godavari Anicut7. Praveen Singh: Flood Control in North Bihar: An Environmental History from the 'Ground-Level' (1850-1954)Part IV. Cultures Reshape Empire8. Peter L. Schmitthenner: The Environmental and Cultural Legacy of Colonial Hydraulic Projects in Two South Indian Deltas9.

Asoka Kumar Sen: Collaboration and Conflict: Environmental Legacies and the Ho of Kolhan (1700 - 1918)Part V.The Long Ecological Shadows of Empire10. D. G. Donovan: Forests at the Edge of Empire: The Case of Nepal11. S. Abdul Thaha: Forest Policy and Ecological Change in Hyderabad State (1867-1948)Notes on Contributors.