Water : Growing understanding, emerging perspectives / edited by Mihir Shah and P.S. Vijayshankar.

Contributed articles.

"EPW."

"Essays from Economic and political weekly"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Introduction. I. Water Resources Development and Management: Large Dams: 1.Narmada Project: The Case Against and an Alternative Perspective/Baba Amte. 2.Alternative Restructuring of the Sardar Sarovar: Breaking the Deadlock/Suhas Paranjape and K.J. Joy. 3.Institutional Vacuum in Sardar Sarovar Project: Framing Rules-of-the-Game /Jayesh Talati and Tushaar Shah. 4.Irrigation Privatisation in India: Options, Issues and Experience/R. Maria Saleth. 5.Institutional Reforms in Canal Irrigation System: Lessons from Chhattisgarh/Dinesh K. Marothia.II.Groundwater: 6.Drawing Down the Buffer: Science and Politics of Groundwater Management in India/Marcus Moench. 7. Ecologically and Socially Embedded Exchange: Gujarat Model of Water Markets/Navroz K. Dubash.8. Out of Sight, Out of Mind : Absence of Groundwater in Water Allocation of Narmada Basin/Rahul Ranade. 9.India s Groundwater Challenge and the Way Forward/P. S. Vijayshankar, Himanshu Kulkarni and Sunderrajan Krishnan. II. Historical Perspectives: 10. Water and Waste: Nature, Productivity and Colonialism in the Indus Basin/David Gilmartin. 11. Questioning Masculinities in Water/Margreet Zwarteveen. 12. Colonialism, Capitalism and Nature: Debating the Origins of Mahanadi Delta s Hydraulic Crisis (1803 1928)/Rohan D Souza.13. Well Irrigation in Gujarat: Systems of Use, Hierarchies of Control/David Hardiman. 14. Indigenous Irrigation in South Bihar: A Case of Congruence of Boundaries/Niranjan Pant. III. Social and Political Dimensions: 15. Contexts and Constructions of Water Scarcity/Lyla Mehta. 16. Socio-economic Implications of Depleting Groundwater Resource in Punjab: A Comparative Analysis of Different Irrigation Systems/Anindita Sarkar. 17. Caste, Gender and the Rhetoric of Reform in India s Drinking Water Sector/Deepa Joshi. 18. Million Revolts in the Making/Biksham Gujja, K.J. Joy, Suhas Paranjape, Vinod Goud and Shruti Vispute.19. Cauvery Dispute: A Lament and a Proposal/Ramaswamy R. Iyer. IV. Economic Concerns: 20. Efficiency of Water Use in Agriculture/A. Vaidyanathan, in collaboration with K. Sivasubramaniyan.21. Measuring the Marginal Value of Water and Elasticity of Demand for Water in Agriculture/E. Somanathan and R. Ravindranath. 22. Get the Price Right : Water Prices and Irrigation Efficiency/Isha Ray. 23. The Indian Monsoon, GDP and Agriculture/Sulochana Gadgil and Siddhartha Gadgil. V. Regional Perspectives: 24. Understanding Agrarian Impasse in Bihar/Avinash Kishore. 25. Co-Management of Electricity and Groundwater: An Assessment of Gujarat s Jyotirgram Scheme/Tushaar Shah and Shilp Verma. 26. Kick-starting a Second Green Revolution in Bengal/Aditi Mukherji, Tushaar Shah and Partha Sarathi Banerjee. 27. Punjab Water Syndrome: Diagnostics and Prescriptions/Himanshu Kulkarni and Mihir Shah. VI. National Overview: 28. Interlinking of Peninsular Rivers: A Critique/A. Vaidyanathan. 29. Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan/Mihir Shah. For decades after independence, Indian planning ignored the need for sustainability and equity in water resource development and management. There was just one way forward, that of harnessing the bounty in our rivers and below the ground, and this strategy had almost completely unquestioned acceptance. It was only in the 1990s that serious questions began to be raised on the wisdom of our understanding and approach to rivers. Around the same time, the sustainability of our strategy of groundwater development under the Green Revolution also began to be interrogated.