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Drowned and dammed colonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India
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Drowned and dammed [electronic resource] : colonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India / Rohan D'Souza.
ISBN
9780199082094 (ebook) :
Published
New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 264 p.) : maps.
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Summary
Exploring the practice of flood control, this work argues that this is a part of a political agenda, implicated in the calculations of capitalism. It also argues for a 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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Oxford scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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September 01, 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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