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  title info:
    title: Water histories of south Asia
    sub title: the materiality of liquescence
  name:
    name part: Ray, Sugata
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Venugopal, Maddipati
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial and contemporary south Asia from the 16th century to the present. Bringing together contributions by art and architecture historians, artists, architects, geographers, maritime historians and environmental activists from India, Europe and the United States, the volume situates water in an expansive relational domain. It covers disciplines as diverse as literary studies, environmental humanities, sustainable design, urban planning and media studies. The chapters explore the ways in which material cultures of water generate technological and aesthetic acts of envisioning geographies and make an intervention within political, developmental and cultural discourses. A critical interjection in the sociologies of water in the subcontinent, the book brings art history into conversation with current debates on climate change, and examines the artistic, architectural, engineering, religious, scientific and environmental facets.
  table of contents: Preface / by Monica Juneja -- Introduction: The materiality of liquescence / Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati -- The shape of Babur's Lake : architecture and water in the central Indian frontier / Tamara I. Sears -- Water is a limited commodity : ecological aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614 / Sugata Ray -- Lakes within lake-palaces : a material history of pleasure in 18th-century India / Dipti Khera -- Photos of the ocean : pearl fisheries, British colonialism and the Gulf of Manaar / Natasha Eaton -- When times were strange : water, geology and drawing in the religious imagination at Girar, 1855 / Venugopal Maddipati -- From nallah to nadi, sewer to stream : urban waterscape research in India and the United States / James L. Wescoat Jr. -- Water : its meanings and powers in the Indian Sufi tradition / Catherine B. Asher -- Developmental aesthetics : modernism's ocular economies and laconic discontents in the era of Nehruvian technocracy / Atreyee Gupta -- A critical look into the existing practice of water governance in cities : the case of Chandernagore / Gopa Samanta and Malay Ganguli -- Making water media in 21st-century South Asia / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- The religious and affective actualities of the Yamuna : conversations with Pandit Premchand Sharma, Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi / Padma D. Maitland -- From Bundi to Delhi : water harnessing systems in semiarid regions / Asim Waqif -- You always step into the same river! / Atul Bhalla -- Cosmographia universalis : environmental crisis and the water aesthetics of global South Asia / Partha Mitter.
  note: edited by Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: az-----
  subject:
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    topic: Water and civilization
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Water
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Bodies of water
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Material culture
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Visual communication
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Water in art
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Art, South Asian
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: South Asia
    topic: Environmental conditions
    topic: History
  classification: DS339 .W38 2019
  classification: 333.9100954
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    title info:
      title: Visual & media histories
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 181202
    record change date: 20191021075946.0
    record identifier: in00004067829