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Rivers divided : Indus basin waters in the making of India and Pakistan / Daniel Haines.
LIBRA JZ3705.I55 H35 2016x
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haines, Daniel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Indus River--Water rights.
- India--Relations--Pakistan.
- Pakistan--Relations--India.
- Pakistan.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 264 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- 1 The Problem of Territory 19
- Territory in nationalist thought 20
- Divided lands, divided rivers 27
- Kashmir 29
- Conclusion 33
- 2 Territorial Hydro-Logics 35
- Use development imperative 36
- Towards a water dispute 40
- India's hydro-logic: absolute sovereignty 43
- Pakistan's hydro-logic: territorial integrity 49
- Conclusion 58
- 3 Sovereignty Entanglements in Kashmir 59
- Legal arguments and sovereign realities 61
- Sovereignty, water and Kashmir 65
- The Mangla Dam 70
- Kashmir and the Indus Waters Treaty 76
- Conclusion 79
- 4 Punjab's Riverine Borderlands 83
- Making places national 86
- Islands and river geography 96
- 1960 and beyond 99
- Conclusion 105
- 5 Spaces of Cooperation 107
- 'A Punjab powder keg' 109
- The 'natural' object of development 115
- Jumping scales 117
- The failure of cooperation 121
- Conclusion 128
- 6 Negotiating International Politics 131
- Playing politics 133
- Moments of opportunity 138
- Paying for geopolitics 144
- Conclusion 151
- 7 The Phantom of Cooperation 155
- Two river disputes in divided Bengal 159
- The Indus precedent 166
- Sovereignty redux 170
- Conclusion 176.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 019064866X
- 9780190648664
- OCLC:
- 951452911
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