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100	1		_aD'Souza, Rohan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDrowned and dammed : _bColonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India. _cRohan D'Souza.
264		1	_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press _c2016.
264		4	_c©2006
300			_axviii, 270 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aOxford India Paperbacks
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index.
505			_aIntroduction 1 Delta’s Integrity and Agrarian Rhythm 2 Capitalist Property and the ‘Calamity of Season’ 3 Embankments and its Discontents 4 Delta in the Commodity-form 5 The Great Denouement and After 6 Production of the River Conclusion
520	8		_aThe 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.
650		0	_aFlood control _xPolitical aspects _zIndia _zOdisha _xHistory.
650		0	_aFlood control _xEconomic aspects _zIndia _zOdisha _xHistory.
650		0	_aPolitical ecology _zIndia _zOdisha _xHistory.
651		0	_aOrissa (India) _xPolitics and government _y19th century.
651		0	_aIndia _xPolitics and government _y1765-1947.
830		0	_aOxford India paperbacks.
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