111 research outputs found
Book Review: Anuj Bhuwania, Courting the People: Public litigation in Post Emergency India
No full text Anuj Bhuwania, Courting the People: Public litigation in Post Emergency India. Delhi: Cambridge University Press. 2017. 166 pages. ₹495. </jats:p
Writing the Historical Mystery
No full textOne of the current stars of the mystery world, medieval historian Sharan Newman is the author of the acclaimed Catherine LeVendeur series, set in Medieval France, the first of which (Death Comes As Epiphany) won the Macavity Award as the best new mystery of 1993. Author of the Guinevere Trilogy and mystery fiction on the Kansas prairies during the 1890s, she has three times been nominated for the Agatha Award
From source to sink
No full text This article examines the making of a modern colonial city through the rhetoric of ‘improvement’ and ‘progress’ in relation to water. The reference is to the history of water in the city of Delhi and what may be called ‘the first science of environment’ in a colonial urban context, with a focus not so much on the ‘extent’ of water supply and drainage, and its (in)adequacy in the colonial city, as on concerns around the ‘(im)purity’ of water, narratives of pollution, technologies of purity and the transformations they effected in a colonial context. In doing so it hopes to build upon a rich tradition of writings on urban water, its modernisation as also its location within a colonial regime, being suggestive of a framework in which we may consider water both as infrastructure and as environment, as much a network of pipes and drains as matters of pollution and well-being, as much a story of the search for and protection of the source as of the fate of the sink into which it ultimately flows. </jats:p
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