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Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History

By DAVID GILMARTIN

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0520285298, 9780520285293
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6807153 bytes)
Pages
376\377
Time added
2017-08-21 10:18:13
Environmental Economics;Economics;Business & Money

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.

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