Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence

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1	Introduction: the materiality of liquescence
PART I Vision and space, ca. 1500–1750
	2	The shape of Babur’s lake: architecture and water in the central Indian frontier
	3	Water is a limited commodity: ecological aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614
	4	Lakes within lake-palaces: a material history of pleasure in 18th-century India
PART II Surface and depth, ca. 1750–1950
	5	Photos of the ocean: pearl fisheries, British colonialism and the Gulf of Manaar
	6	Deep time as intimate stranger: the age of water in the religious imagination at Girar, 1855
	7	From nallah to nadi, stream to sewer to stream: urban waterscape research in India and the United States
PART III  Materiality and infrastructure, ca. 1950–2015
	8	Water: its meanings and powers in the Indian Sufi tradition
	9	Developmental aesthetics: modernism’s ocular economies and laconic discontents in the era of Nehruvian technocracy
	10	A critical look into the existing practice of water governance in cities: the case of Chandernagore
	11	Making water media in 21st-century South Asia
PART IV Mediations
	12	The religious and affective actualities of the Yamuna: conversations with Pandit Premchand Sharma, Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi
	13	From Bundi to Delhi: water harnessing systems in semiarid regions
	14	You always step into the same river!
PART V  Afterthoughts
	15 Cosmographia universalis: environmental crisis and the water aesthetics of global South Asia
Index