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agriculture and irrigation
agriculture and irrigation asia
Author_David Gilmartin
bahawalpur
baloch
baloch frontier
british colonial
british colonial irrigation
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ecology asia
environmental concerns asia
environmental history
environmental irrigation
environmental science
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indus basin
indus basin partition
indus river region
indus river valley
irrigation
partition
punjab
punjabi irrigation
river basin and partition
rivers in asia
south asian ecology
Product details
- ISBN 9780520355538
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2020
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
David Gilmartin is Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University and the author of Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan.
