Velayutham Saravanan (Author)
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 2020
Language: English
Physical Details: 243
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)
...MoreReview Aditya Ramesh (October 2021) Review of "Water and the environmental history of modern India". Technology and Culture (pp. 1235-1236).
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