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The rule of water : statecraft, ecology and collective action in south India / David Mosse ; with assistance from M. Sivan.
Penn Museum Library HD1698.I42 S686 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mosse, David, author.
- Series:
- Oxford India paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water-supply--Social aspects--India, South.
- Water-supply.
- Human ecology--India, South.
- Human ecology.
- Water-supply--Political aspects--India, South.
- Water-supply--Political aspects.
- Water-supply--Social aspects.
- South India.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- Study conducted at the Ramnad District of Tamil Nadu, India.
- This book uses long-term anthropological fieldwork, oral histories and detailed archival work to explore the changing ecology, political significance and cultural meaning of water in south India. Focusing on the ancient and complex "tank" irrigation systems of a coastal plains region, the book develops an account of the interplay between social and political organization and the ecology of water flows. --amazon.com
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction: The Social Ecology and Ideology of Water
- 2. A Tank-Irrigated Landscape: The View from Afar
- 3. Water and Power in a Warrior State: Landscape and Memory
- 4. Water and Rule in Two Zamindaris: Colonial Governance and Political Failure
- 5. Water and Society in a Red-Soil Village
- 6. Water and Society in a Black-Soil Village
- 7. Ecological Zones and the Culture of Collective Action
- 8. Irrigation Bureaucracy and the Colonial Construction of Community Management
- 9. From State Bureaucracy to People's Participation: A New Moral Economy for Water?
- 10. Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes glossary.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-332) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mosse, David. Rule of water.
- ISBN:
- 0195672208
- 9780195672206
- 0195661370
- 9780195661378
- OCLC:
- 51106851
- Online:
- Publisher description
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