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Title Water histories of South Asia : the materiality of liquescence / edited by Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020

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Series Visual and media histories
Visual & media histories.
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
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Sugata Ray is Associate Professor in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His research focuses on the intersections amongearly modern and colonial artistic cultures, transterritorial ecologies and the natural environment. His publications include Climate Change and the Art of Devotion: Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850 (2019); Ecologies, Aesthetics and Histories of Art (coedited, 2019); and essays in journals such as The Art Bulletin, Art History and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. Venugopal Maddipati is Assistant Professor in the School of Design at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. His research focuses on geological thinking, architectural history and ecological histories. His publications include Gandhi and Architecture Against History: The Contemporaneity of Low-Cost Housing (forthcoming) and essays in journals and books, such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; Sarai Reader 09; Simon Starling/Superflex: Reprototypes, Triangulations and Road Tests; and LA, Journal of Landscape Architecture
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Subject Water and civilization -- History
Water -- Social aspects -- South Asia -- History
Bodies of water -- Social aspects -- South Asia -- History
Material culture -- South Asia -- History
Visual communication -- Social aspects -- South Asia -- History
Water in art -- History
Art, South Asian -- History
Architecture -- South Asia -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
ART -- History -- General.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Architecture
Art, South Asian
Civilization
Ecology
Material culture
Visual communication -- Social aspects
Water and civilization
Water in art
Water -- Social aspects
SUBJECT South Asia -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006002811
South Asia -- Environmental conditions -- History
Subject South Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ray, Sugata, editor.
Venugopal, Maddipati, editor.
ISBN 9780429242694
0429242697
9780429515873
0429515871
9780429519307
0429519303
9780429512445
0429512449