Christopher V. Hill (University of Colorado)

submitted: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 14:39:55 MST

Christopher V. Hill
Associate Professor of History
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Address:

Department of History
University of Colorado
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Box 7150
Colorado Springs, CO  80933-7150

Phone:  (719) 593-3538
Fax:  (719)  593-3582
e-mail:  cvhill@uccs.edu

Interests: 

Colonial India
Bihar
Bengal
Orissa
Kosi River
Mahanadi River
Environmental History
Agrarian History
Public Works
Water and Forest Resources

Major Publications:

"Philosophy and Reality in Riparian South Asia:  British Famine Policy
and Migration in Colonial Bengal,"  Modern Asian Studies (25:2, 1991).

"Water and Power:  Riparian Legislation and Agrarian Control in Colonial
Bengal,"  Environmental History Review (14:4, 1990).

"Santhal Bataidars in Purnia District:  The Ecological Evolution of the
Sharecropping System,"  Economic and Political Weekly (XXII:34, 1987).

Forthcoming:

*River of Sorrow:  Environment and Agrarian Control in North India, The
Kosi River and Purnia District, 1770-1990*

"Ideology and Public Works:  `Managing' the Mahanadi River in Colonial
North India."