Description:
This book surveys the intersections between water systems and the phenomenology of visual cultures in early modern, colonial, and contemporary South Asia.
Review Quotes:
'This eclectic collection of essays attempts to capture an ineffable quality of waterscapes: that they shape imaginations and actions in ways both fluid and enduring. At a time when the challenge of climate change calls for creative cultural politics, this exploration of ways of seeing and being is all the more valuable.'
Amita Baviskar, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India
"This beautifully produced volume, printed on fine glossy paper, is a joy to hold and read. Ray (Univ. of California, Berkeley) and Maddipati (Ambedkar University Delhi, India) have put together a luxurious book of 14 chapters and 122 plates, in both black and white and color, to explore the material culture of water in oceans, dams, rivers, and lakes, from antiquity to the present.This is a wonderful contribution by Routledge and the contributors."
--R. D. Long, Eastern Michigan University, CHOICE, January 2020 Vol. 57 No. 5