Book ID: CBB932612637

Water and the environmental history of modern India (2020)

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Velayutham Saravanan (Author)


Bloomsbury Academic


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 243
Language: English

This important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions. In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply and their consequences for ecology, the environment and livelihoods have been given scant attention. Velayutham Saravanan's comprehensive account of both the colonial and post-colonial periods corrects this shortcoming in the field's literature and gives a holistic understanding of the problem and its full historical roots. (Publisher)

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Review Aditya Ramesh (October 2021) Review of "Water and the environmental history of modern India". Technology and Culture (pp. 1235-1236). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Skelton, Leona J.
Bivar, Venus
Thomas, Pradip
Joshua Grace
Butler, Christina Rae
McElwee, Pamela D.
Concepts
Colonialism
Environmental history
Postcolonialism
Rivers
Environmental policy
Flood control
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
18th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
India
Canada
China
Africa, Sub-Sahara
South Asia
South Carolina (U.S.)
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