Drowned and dammed [electronic resource] : colonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India / Rohan D'Souza.

D'Souza, Rohan.
Call Number
333.9100954133
Author
D'Souza, Rohan.
Title
Drowned and dammed colonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India / Rohan D'Souza.
Publication
New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 264 p.) : maps.
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.
Subject
Flood control India Orissa.
Imperialism Economic aspects.
Orissa (India) Politics and government 19th century.
India Politics and government 1765-1947.
Multimedia
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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.
Subject
Flood control India Orissa.
Imperialism Economic aspects.
Orissa (India) Politics and government 19th century.
India Politics and government 1765-1947.
Multimedia