第24回南アジア・インド洋世界研究会
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Date & Time: 1st April 2010 3PM to 5PM
Venue: Room Number AA 401 (fourth floor), Research Building # 2, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Yoshida Campus, Kyoto University
Map: http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_y.htm
(No.34 on the map)
Rohan D'Souza, Associate Professor at the Department of History, Shiv Nadar University, India
Abstract:
Most writings on lands and rivers in South Asia have disingenuously accepted the "politics of separations." Land as property and river as resource, thus, are overwhelmingly recognized as distinct conceptual domains. Histories about land settlements, rent extraction, the burdens of revenue, legal ownership, or the commons have occupied discussions only as the political economy of the soil. Rivers, on the other hand, became a technical subject involving infrastructure and the biographies of engineering and control. Professor D'Souza will argue that this politics of separations acquired a defining force in the region only through the course of the long nineteenth century. An amphibian South Asia with its soil-water admixtures actually characterized its environmental and social worlds before being transformed into the reptilian terrain of colonial modernity.
Biography: Rohan D'Souza is Associate Professor at the Department of History, Shiv Nadar University, India and the author of *Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (1803-1946),*Oxford University Press, 2006. His edited books include *The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia* (Oxford University Press, 2011) and *Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays *(Orient BlackSwan: Hyderabad, 2012). His interests and research publications cover themes in environmental history, environmental politics, non-traditional security, sustainable development and modern technology