Drowned and Dammed
Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India
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9780199469130
Publication date:
20/07/2016
Paperback
290 pages
Price: 595.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199469130
Publication date:
20/07/2016
Paperback
290 pages
Rohan D’Souza
This book explores the idea and practice of flood control and arguing that it is a part of a political agenda, deeply implicated in the social, economic, and political calculations of capitalism in general and colonialism in particular. It argues for a comprehensive reconsideration of the debate on the colonial environmental watershed, its hydraulic legacy, and questions contemporary enthusiasm for flood control in post-independent India.
Rights: World Rights
Rohan D’Souza
Description
The water question in India has several contentious dimensions, be they inter-state river disputes, groundwater extraction by private corporations, farmer agitations for irrigation water, or urban anxieties over meeting water needs. Rohan D’Souza argues that the British project of flood control in the Orissa Delta was principally political in intent, aimed at anchoring their presence in the area. In Drowned and Dammed he comprehensively reconsiders the debate on the colonial environmental watershed and its hydraulic legacy in India.
Colonial capitalism sought to dominate the Orissa Delta’s many rivers by bringing about an unprecedented ecological rupture. Through the rubric of flood control, British rule instituted capitalist private property in land and re- shaped the region’s hydrology with physical infrastructures such as embankments, canal networks, and dams. The Orissa delta was thus dramatically transformed from a flood-dependent agrarian regime into a flood-vulnerable landscape.
About the Author
Rohan D’Souza is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Rohan D’Souza
Table of contents
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Delta’s Integrity and Agrarian Rhythm
Chapter Two: Capitalist Property and the ‘Calamity of Season’
Chapter Three: Embankments and its Discontents
Chapter Four: Delta in the Commodity-form
Chapter Five: The Great Denouement and After
Chapter Six: Production of the River
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Rohan D’Souza
Rohan D’Souza
Description
The water question in India has several contentious dimensions, be they inter-state river disputes, groundwater extraction by private corporations, farmer agitations for irrigation water, or urban anxieties over meeting water needs. Rohan D’Souza argues that the British project of flood control in the Orissa Delta was principally political in intent, aimed at anchoring their presence in the area. In Drowned and Dammed he comprehensively reconsiders the debate on the colonial environmental watershed and its hydraulic legacy in India.
Colonial capitalism sought to dominate the Orissa Delta’s many rivers by bringing about an unprecedented ecological rupture. Through the rubric of flood control, British rule instituted capitalist private property in land and re- shaped the region’s hydrology with physical infrastructures such as embankments, canal networks, and dams. The Orissa delta was thus dramatically transformed from a flood-dependent agrarian regime into a flood-vulnerable landscape.
About the Author
Rohan D’Souza is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Table of contents
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Delta’s Integrity and Agrarian Rhythm
Chapter Two: Capitalist Property and the ‘Calamity of Season’
Chapter Three: Embankments and its Discontents
Chapter Four: Delta in the Commodity-form
Chapter Five: The Great Denouement and After
Chapter Six: Production of the River
Conclusion
Appendix I
Appendix II
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
