Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (Oxford India Paperbacks) Book Information:

The water question in India has several contentious dimensions, be they inter-state river disputes, groundwater extraction by private corporations, farmer agitations for irrigation water or urban anxieties over meeting water needs. Rohan DSouza argues that the British project of flood control in the Orissa Delta was principally political in intent, aimed at anchoring their presence in the area. In Drowned and Dammed he comprehensively reconsiders the debate on the colonial environmental watershed and its hydraulic legacy in India. Colonial capitalism sought to dominate the Orissa Deltas many rivers by bringing about an unprecedented ecological rupture. Through the rubric of flood control, British rule instituted capitalist private property in land and re- shaped the regions hydrology with physical infrastructures such as embankments, canal networks and dams. The Orissa delta was thus dramatically transformed from a flood-dependent agrarian regime into a flood-vulnerable landscape.

• Book Type :

Higher Education Textbooks

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

290 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

978019946913

• Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (Oxford India Paperbacks) Published On :

20 Jul 2016

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