Water histories of South Asia : the materiality of liquescence /: the materiality of liquescence. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati.
• Editors: Ray, Sugata; Venugopal, Maddipati
• Contents: Preface / by Monica Juneja -- Introduction: The materiality of liquescence / Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati -- The shape of Babur's Lake : architecture and water in the central Indian frontier / Tamara I. Sears -- Water is a limited commodity : ecological aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614 / Sugata Ray -- Lakes within lake-palaces : a material history of pleasure in 18th-century India / Dipti Khera -- Photos of the ocean : pearl fisheries, British colonialism and the Gulf of Manaar / Natasha Eaton -- When times were strange : water, geology and drawing in the religious imagination at Girar, 1855 / Venugopal Maddipati -- From nallah to nadi, sewer to stream : urban waterscape research in India and the United States / James L. Wescoat Jr. -- Water : its meanings and powers in the Indian Sufi tradition / Catherine B. Asher -- Developmental aesthetics : modernism's ocular economies and laconic discontents in the era of Nehruvian technocracy / Atreyee Gupta -- A critical look into the existing practice of water governance in cities : the case of Chandernagore / Gopa Samanta and Malay Ganguli -- Making water media in 21st-century South Asia / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- The religious and affective actualities of the Yamuna : conversations with Pandit Premchand Sharma, Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi / Padma D. Maitland -- From Bundi to Delhi : water harnessing systems in semiarid regions / Asim Waqif -- You always step into the same river! / Atul Bhalla -- Cosmographia universalis : environmental crisis and the water aesthetics of global South Asia / Partha Mitter.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.9100954; Water and civilization -- History; Water -- Social aspects -- South Asia -- History; Bodies of water -- Social aspects -- South Asia -- History; Material culture -- South Asia -- History; Visual communication -- Social aspects -- South Asia -- History; Water in art -- History; Art, South Asian -- History; Architecture -- South Asia -- History; Architecture; Art, South Asian; Civilization; Ecology; Material culture; Visual communication -- Social aspects; Water and civilization; Water in art; Water -- Social aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; ART / History / General; NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection; South Asia -- Civilization; South Asia -- Environmental conditions -- History; South Asia; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429242694; 0429242697; 9780429515873; 0429515871; 9780429519307; 0429519303; 9780429512445; 0429512449
• Related ISBNs: 9781138285316; 1138285315
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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