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Water histories of South Asia : the materiality of liquescence / edited by Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati.
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- Book
- Series:
- Visual & media histories
- Visual and media histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture.
- History.
- Art, South Asian.
- Water in art.
- Visual communication--Social aspects.
- Visual communication.
- Material culture.
- Bodies of water.
- Social aspects.
- Water--Social aspects.
- Water.
- Water and civilization.
- Environmental conditions.
- South Asia--Civilization.
- South Asia.
- Civilization.
- South Asia--Environmental conditions--History.
- Water and civilization--History.
- Water--Social aspects--South Asia--History.
- Bodies of water--Social aspects--South Asia--History.
- Material culture--South Asia--History.
- Visual communication--Social aspects--South Asia--History.
- Water in art--History.
- Art, South Asian--History.
- Architecture--South Asia--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Preface / by Monica Juneja
- Introduction: The materiality of liquescence / Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati
- The shape of Babur's Lake : architecture and water in the central Indian frontier / Tamara I. Sears
- Water is a limited commodity : ecological aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614 / Sugata Ray
- Lakes within lake-palaces : a material history of pleasure in 18th-century India / Dipti Khera
- Photos of the ocean : pearl fisheries, British colonialism and the Gulf of Manaar / Natasha Eaton
- When times were strange : water, geology and drawing in the religious imagination at Girar, 1855 / Venugopal Maddipati
- From nallah to nadi, sewer to stream : urban waterscape research in India and the United States / James L. Wescoat Jr.
- Water : its meanings and powers in the Indian Sufi tradition / Catherine B. Asher
- Developmental aesthetics : modernism's ocular economies and laconic discontents in the era of Nehruvian technocracy / Atreyee Gupta
- A critical look into the existing practice of water governance in cities : the case of Chandernagore / Gopa Samanta and Malay Ganguli
- Making water media in 21st-century South Asia / Bishnupriya Ghosh
- The religious and affective actualities of the Yamuna : conversations with Pandit Premchand Sharma, Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi / Padma D. Maitland
- From Bundi to Delhi : water harnessing systems in semiarid regions / Asim Waqif
- You always step into the same river! / Atul Bhalla
- Cosmographia universalis : environmental crisis and the water aesthetics of global South Asia / Partha Mitter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780429242694
- 0429242697
- Publisher Number:
- 99982532959
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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