Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence

ISBN-13: 9781138285316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 316 str.

Sugata Ray; Venugopal Maddipati

Opis

This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial, and contemporary South Asia.

Spis treści

Foreword 1. Introduction: The Materiality of Liquescence PART I. Vision and Space, ca. 1500–1750 2. The Shape of Babur’s Lake: Architecture and Water in the Central Indian Frontier 3. Water is a Limited Commodity: Ecological Aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614 4. Lakes Within Lake-Palaces: A Material History of Pleasure in 18th-Century India PART II. Surface and Depth, ca. 1750–1950 5. Photos of the Ocean: Pearl Fisheries, British Colonialism and the Gulf of Manaar 6. Deep Time as Intimate Stranger: The Age of Water in the Religious Imagination at Girar, 1855 7. From Nallah to Nadi, Stream to Sewer to Stream: Urban Waterscape Research in India and the United States PART III. Materiality and Infrastructure, ca. 1950–2015 8. Water: Its Meanings and Powers in the Indian Sufi Tradition 9. Developmental Aesthetics: Modernism’s Ocular Economies and Laconic Discontents in the Era of Nehruvian Technocracy 10. A Critical Look into the Existing Practice of Water Governance in Cities: The Case of Chandernagore 11. Making Water Media in 21^st-Century South Asia PART IV. Mediations 12. The Religious and Affective Actualities of the Yamuna: Conversations with Pandit Premchand Sharma, Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi 13. From Bundi to Delhi: Water Harnessing Systems in Semiarid Regions 14. You Always Step into the Same River! PART V. Afterthoughts 15. Cosmographia Universalis: Environmental Crisis and the Water Aesthetics of Global South Asia