Drowned and damned: colonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India

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The volume explores the idea and practice of flood control and argues that this is a part of a political agenda, deeply implicated in the social, economic, and political calculations of capitalism in general and colonialism in particular. It argues for a comprehensive reconsideration of the debate on the colonial environmental watershed, its hydraulic legacy and questions contemporary enthusiasm for flood control in post-independent India.

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Full title :Drowned and damned : colonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India / Rohan D'Souza.

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Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New Delhi [etc.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006.

Notes

Bew. van proefschrift Jawaharlal Nehru University.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 264 p., [1] vouwkrt. : : ill. ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0195682173, 9780195682175
oclc:ocn899084686
LC Classification:TC503
Dewey Decimal:333.9100954133

Subjects

56.30 hydraulic constructions Capitalism colonialism environmental impact flood control Flood control -- Economic aspects Flood control -- Economic aspects -- In… Flood control -- Political aspects -- I… geschiedenis History hoogwaterbeheersing India India -- Odisha kapitalisme Koloniale politiek kolonialisme Landscape and Environmental History of … milieueffect Orissa overstromingen