Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India
As international attention continues to focus on large dam projects across Asia, it is worth noting that conflicts over the politics of and environmental changes caused by dams in India are not new. Population dislocation, siltation, disease, floods caused by catastrophic dam failure, raised water t...
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| description | As international attention continues to focus on large dam projects across Asia, it is worth noting that conflicts over the politics of and environmental changes caused by dams in India are not new. Population dislocation, siltation, disease, floods caused by catastrophic dam failure, raised water tables, high costs and low returns-all of these concerns, and others, can be discussed in the context of reservoir projects ten, one hundred, or even one thousand years old. In this paper, I identify some of the major issues in the political ecology of contemporary dam projects and show how these same issues have played out in southern India over the last thousand years, suggesting that historical attention to the cultural and political context of reservoir construction might help us to understand some aspects of contemporary conflicts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-547739112f094fce9a794d7b09a686d72022-12-21T19:45:00ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsConservation & Society0972-49230975-31332010-01-0183182195Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in IndiaMorrison KathleenAs international attention continues to focus on large dam projects across Asia, it is worth noting that conflicts over the politics of and environmental changes caused by dams in India are not new. Population dislocation, siltation, disease, floods caused by catastrophic dam failure, raised water tables, high costs and low returns-all of these concerns, and others, can be discussed in the context of reservoir projects ten, one hundred, or even one thousand years old. In this paper, I identify some of the major issues in the political ecology of contemporary dam projects and show how these same issues have played out in southern India over the last thousand years, suggesting that historical attention to the cultural and political context of reservoir construction might help us to understand some aspects of contemporary conflicts.http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2010;volume=8;issue=3;spage=182;epage=195;aulast=MorrisondamsdevelopmentSouth Asiairrigationsiltationtemplesreservoirsreligion |
| spellingShingle | Morrison Kathleen Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India Conservation & Society dams development South Asia irrigation siltation temples reservoirs religion |
| title | Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India |
| title_full | Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India |
| title_fullStr | Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India |
| title_short | Dharmic projects, imperial reservoirs, and new temples of India: An historical perspective on dams in India |
| title_sort | dharmic projects imperial reservoirs and new temples of india an historical perspective on dams in india |
| topic | dams development South Asia irrigation siltation temples reservoirs religion |
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