Historiography of Nature's Despoliation: A Study of Exploitation of Himalayan Resources Jena Narayan1,*, Parida Swagatika2 1Department of English and Foreign Languages, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, (A Deemed to be Universities), Chennai, India 2SRM School of Management, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, (A Deemed to be Universities), Chennai, India *Corresponding author: jnarayan83@gmail.com
Online published on 31 May, 2018. Abstract The Himalayas, which has been customarily regarded as a land of natural sanctity and divine beauty, has not been free from exploitation for centuries. As a part of imperialistic motif of different intruders, the land has experienced years of plunder and destruction of natural resources. The present paper intends to study the ecological history of the Himalayas to examine how the historical events of invasion coupled with exploitation of resources at different levels and in different forms has lead to changing in the natural morphology of the land and brought into a changed pattern in the geo-bio-physical and natural system of the land. In the wake of modern industrial development, due to a steep rise in the demand for natural resources, the exploitation has increased manifold; that has posed threat to local human and non-human living system in the mountain. Top Keywords Natural resource, Himalayas, exploitation. Top |