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In 1947, British India - the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh - emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as illustrated by the author, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube-wells that are drawing groundwater without permits or hindrances. This book examines the development of this chaos and the prospects to bring it under control.
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About the Author Preface Introduction 1. The Hydraulic Past: Irrigation and State Formation 2. Rise of the Colossus 3. The Future of Flow Irrigation 4. Wells and Welfare 5. Diminishing Returns? 6. Aquifers and Institutions 7. Can the Anarchy be Tamed? 8. Thriving in Anarchy Endnotes Glossary of Hindi and Other Terms References Index
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Tushaar Shah is a senior adviser to the director general at the International Water Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka.