Blood and Water : The Indus River Basin in Modern History

Gilmartin, David

University of California Press（2020/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 376 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520355538
• DDC分類 954.91

Full Description

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

Acknowledgments
Maps

1. INTRODUCTION: COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT
2. IRRIGATION AND THE BALOCH FRONTIER
3. COMMUNITY ON THE WASTE: THE VILLAGE AND THE COLONIAL PROPERTY ORDER
4. STATUTE AND CUSTOM IN WATER LAW
5. SCIENCE, THE STATE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
6. THE RIVER BASIN AND PARTITION
7. THE INDUS WATERS TREATY AND ITS AFTERLIVES

Notes
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Index