Colonial Engineering and the Making of Modern Rivers in South Asia
Buchanan Tower Room 1197, 1873 East Mall, VancouverThe immense flowing rivers of South Asia were turned into modern rivers through the course of British colonial rule in the nineteenth century. The introduction of colonial hydraulic infrastructure, in essence, was to sustain land as legal claim and to be imagined as permanent ownership. Rohan D’Souza is Assoc. Prof. at Kyoto University.