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Taming the waters : the political economy of large dams in India

Title: Taming the waters : the political economy of large dams in India / Satyajit Singh.
Author: Singh, Satyajit.
Publication: Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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xiv, 270 pages; 22 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-264) and index.

Contents

1. Irrigation: Equity and Sustainability -- Development and Sustainability -- Irrigation: An Alternate Perspective -- 2. Irrigation, History and Ecological Change in India -- Irrigation and State in Pre-British India -- Irrigation in British India -- 3. State, Classes and Irrigation Development in India -- Irrigation Planning in India -- Politics of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Green Revolution and Large Dams -- 4. Economic Evaluation of Large Dams -- Returns from Irrigation -- Small versus Large: Which is 'Cost Efficient'? -- Economic Audit of Large Dams -- 5. Unsustainable Irrigation -- Ecological Impact of Large Dams -- Developing Environmental Economics -- 6. Winners and Losers -- Irrigation: A 'Public Good'? -- Displacement and Resettlement -- 7. Green Movements and Alternatives -- Green Movements and Hydraulic Property Rights -- Alternatives in Irrigation -- Alternatives in Hydro-Power -- Concluding Remarks.

ISBN

0195640519
9780195640519

LCCN

97903282

OCLC

ocm38948070
38948070
SCSB-9573759

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Princeton University Library