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Blood and Water : The Indus River Basin in Modern History / David Gilmartin.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilmartin, David, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture and state--Indus River Valley.
- Agriculture and state.
- Irrigation--Political aspects--Indus River Valley.
- Irrigation.
- Irrigation--Indus River Valley--History.
- Indus River Valley--Environmental conditions.
- Indus River Valley.
- Indus River Region--History.
- Indus River Region.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world's most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social, and environmental transformations that continued after the 1947 creation of the new states of India and Pakistan. In this first large-scale environmental history of the region, David Gilmartin focuses on the changes that occurred in the basin as a result of the implementation of the world's largest modern integrated irrigation system. This masterful work of scholarship explores how environmental transformation is tied to the creation of communities and nations, focusing on the intersection of politics, statecraft, and the environment.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- DEBATING THE POLITICS OF NATURE'S TRANSFORMATION
- THE SETTING: THE INDUS BASIN
- WATER, PASTORALISM, AND BALOCH IDENTITY
- BRITISH IRRIGATION AND THE MYTH OF THE BALOCH FRONTIER
- EMPIRE, IRRIGATION, AND TRIBAL IDENTITY
- PROPERTY, INDIVIDUAL, AND COMMUNITY
- COMMUNITY ON THE WASTE: COMMONS, ARIDITY, PASTORALISM
- "A LOCAL HABITATION AND A NAME": TERRITORY AND TAXATION
- STATUTE AND INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTIVITY
- THE DILEMMAS OF "CUSTOM" IN WATER MANAGEMENT
- WATER LORDS
- ENGINEERS AND WATER CONTROL
- WASTELANDS, CANALS, AND STATE POWER
- VISIONS OF ENVIRONMENT, VISIONS OF COMMUNITY
- A SYSTEM OF MANY PARTS
- NATIONALISM, WATER, AND THE PARTITION OF THE INDUS BASIN
- THE RIVER BASIN IDEA AND PROVINCIAL POLITICS
- STATECRAFT AND LOCAL COMMUNITY IN AN EVOLVING SYSTEM
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520355538
- 0520355539
- OCLC:
- 907924499
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