| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents; About the Author; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Hydraulic Past: Irrigation and State Formation; Chapter 2. Rise of the Colossus; Chapter 3. The Future of Flow Irrigation; Chapter 4. Wells and Welfare; Chapter 5. Diminishing Returns?; Chapter 6. Aquifers and Institutions; Chapter 7. Can the Anarchy be Tamed?; Chapter 8. Thriving in Anarchy; Endnotes; Glossary of Hindi and Other Terms; References; Index |
| Summary |
In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. Taming the Anarchy is about the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control. It is about both the massive benefi |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781936331598 |
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1936331594 |
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