Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Copyright Contents List of plates List of tables List of contributors Foreword Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: the materiality of liquescence PART I Vision and space, ca. 1500–1750 2 The shape of Babur’s lake: architecture and water in the central Indian frontier 3 Water is a limited commodity: ecological aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614 4 Lakes within lake-palaces: a material history of pleasure in 18th-century India PART II Surface and depth, ca. 1750–1950 5 Photos of the ocean: pearl fisheries, British colonialism and the Gulf of Manaar 6 Deep time as intimate stranger: the age of water in the religious imagination at Girar, 1855 7 From nallah to nadi, stream to sewer to stream: urban waterscape research in India and the United States PART III Materiality and infrastructure, ca. 1950–2015 8 Water: its meanings and powers in the Indian Sufi tradition 9 Developmental aesthetics: modernism’s ocular economies and laconic discontents in the era of Nehruvian technocracy 10 A critical look into the existing practice of water governance in cities: the case of Chandernagore 11 Making water media in 21st-century South Asia PART IV Mediations 12 The religious and affective actualities of the Yamuna: conversations with Pandit Premchand Sharma, Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi 13 From Bundi to Delhi: water harnessing systems in semiarid regions 14 You always step into the same river! PART V Afterthoughts 15 Cosmographia universalis: environmental crisis and the water aesthetics of global South Asia Index