‘Today’s climate crisis is rooted in British imperial rule this impacted India’s nature’

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Congratulations! You have successfully cast your vote Login to view result is professor of history and environmental studies at Ashoka University. Speaking toat Times Evoke, he discusses how imperial Britain shaped the world’s environment:There were two major points of departure. First, from about 1760 to 1940, India became part of a transcontinental political formation, initially with the East India Company, then with the crown.India played a critical role in the protection of British power worldwide — the forces recruited from here came from the agrarian hinterland. By 1800, there were around 2,00,000 such troops. By WWII, there were two million....