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Blood and Water
The Indus River Basin in Modern History
Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
AcknowledgmentsMaps1. INTRODUCTION: COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT2. IRRIGATION AND THE BALOCH FRONTIER3. COMMUNITY ON THE WASTE: THE VILLAGE AND THE COLONIAL PROPERTY ORDER4. STATUTE AND CUSTOM IN WATER LAW5. SCIENCE, THE STATE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT6. THE RIVER BASIN AND PARTITION7. THE INDUS WATERS TREATY AND ITS AFTERLIVESNotesBibliographyIndex
David Gilmartin is Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University and the author of Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan.
ISBN-13:
9780520960831
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
376
Autor:
David Gilmartin
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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