TY  - BOOK
AU  - D'Souza,Rohan
TI  - Drowned and dammed :colonial capitalism and flood control in Eastern India
T2  - Oxford India Paperbacks
SN  - 9780199469130(pb)
AV  - DS485.O66 D82 2016
U1  - 333.910095475 DSO/Dro 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Flood control
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - India
KW  - Odisha
KW  - History
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Political ecology
KW  - Orissa (India)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 1765-1947
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -