Rivers, Dams and landscapes: Engaging with the modern on contested grounds

Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research

Volumn , Issue 9789400727977, 2014, Pages 125-147

  Werner, Hanna ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development discourse; India; Large dams; Modernity; Resistance; Social visions; Tehri Dam

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031732072     PISSN: 18797180     EISSN: 18797199     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2798-4_7     Document Type: Chapter

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