Blood and water : the Indus River basin in modern history
David Gilmartin (Author)
'Blood and Water' is a history of the political and environmental transformation of the Indus basin as a result of the modern construction in the region of the world's largest integrated irrigation system. The system was begun under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, and the resulting transformation continued after the region was divided between two new states, India and Pakistan, in 1947. It was a process deeply shaped, from the beginning, by colonial statecraft - and by the fissures within colonial policies and ideologies
eBook, English, 2016
University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2016