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'Cederloef allows us a long overdue introduction to work we need to explore further if we are to develop stronger analyses of our own local and regional environmental histories.' - HEATHER GOODALL, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney Cederloef's Landscapes and the Law is a landmark study that not only remaps, but reconstitutes the fields of environmental, legal, and colonial history. At its heart lies an effort to historicize the construction of sovereignty through the social process of making legal rights in nature. ... Cederloef challenges conventional understandings of how colonial sovereignty was secured and legitimized in forest and hill inner frontier tracts like the Nilgiris. She shifts historians' attention from a preoccupation with the implementation of law to the social process of making law, reminding us that we cannot understand how law works if we simply assume that the end result * in this case British territorial sovereignty * Landscapes and the Law is a significant contribution by offering a fresh and inno vative paradigm for understanding the colonial project in south Asia. The black box on the early modern colonial period is now flipped open to reveal power and agency as a kaleidoscope of possibilities rather than a static picture set in sepia tainted monochrome. * Rohan D'Souza, Economic & Political Weekly *

Landscapes and the Law is a significant contribution by offering a fresh and inno vative paradigm for understanding the colonial project in south Asia. The black box on the early modern colonial period is now flipped open to reveal power and agency as a kaleidoscope of possibilities rather than a static picture set in sepia tainted monochrome. --Rohan D'Souza, Economic & Political Weekly Cederloef's Landscapes and the Law is a landmark study that not only remaps, but reconstitutes the fields of environmental, legal, and colonial history. At its heart lies an effort to historicize the construction of sovereignty through the social process of making legal rights in nature. ... Cederloef challenges conventional understandings of how colonial sovereignty was secured and legitimized in forest and hill inner frontier tracts like the Nilgiris. She shifts historians' attention from a preoccupation with the implementation of law to the social process of making law, reminding us that we cannot understand how law works if we simply assume that the end result--in this case British territorial sovereignty--was the inevitable outcome. --Lauren Minsky, Environmental History 'Cederloef allows us a long overdue introduction to work we need to explore further if we are to develop stronger analyses of our own local and regional environmental histories.' - HEATHER GOODALL, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney

Landscapes and the Law is a significant contribution by offering a fresh and inno vative paradigm for understanding the colonial project in south Asia. The black box on the early modern colonial period is now flipped open to reveal power and agency as a kaleidoscope of possibilities rather than a static picture set in sepia tainted monochrome. --Rohan D'Souza, Economic & Political Weekly Cederloef's Landscapes and the Law is a landmark study that not only remaps, but reconstitutes the fields of environmental, legal, and colonial history. At its heart lies an effort to historicize the construction of sovereignty through the social process of making legal rights in nature. ... Cederloef challenges conventional understandings of how colonial sovereignty was secured and legitimized in forest and hill inner frontier tracts like the Nilgiris. She shifts historians' attention from a preoccupation with the implementation of law to the social process of making law, reminding us that we cannot understand how law works if we simply assume that the end result--in this case British territorial sovereignty--was the inevitable outcome. --Lauren Minsky, Environmental History 'Cederloef allows us a long overdue introduction to work we need to explore further if we are to develop stronger analyses of our own local and regional environmental histories.' - HEATHER GOODALL, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology Sydney

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Gunnel Cederlöf is Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Sweden. Her research spans modern Indian and British imperial history, and environmental and legal history. She was Professor of History at Uppsala University and has taught at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Among her publications are Founding an Empire on India's North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790-1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity (2014), Bonds lost : Subordination, Conflict and Mobilisation in Rural South India c. 1900-1970 (1997), At Nature's Edge: The Global Present and Long-Term History (2018 with M. Rangarajan), Subjects, Citizens and Law: Colonial and independent India (2017 with S. Das Gupta), and Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia (2006, 2012 with K. Sivaramakrishnan).

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