Yaaminey Mubayi, "Water and Historic Settlements"
English | ISBN: 0367723689 | 2022 | 150 pages | PDF | 16 MB
English | ISBN: 0367723689 | 2022 | 150 pages | PDF | 16 MB
This book explores the manner in which human societies understood and managed scarce water resources. Focusing on the arid, rain shadow region of Marathwada, it documents the panoramic history of this region’s most important resource – water. It shows how water delineates the establishment of political authority, marks the intersection of networks of trade and pilgrimage and is the bearer of identity through community memories.
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