Hydraulic city : : water and the infrastructures of citizenship in Mumbai / / Nikhil Anand.

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found...

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Place / Publishing House:Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Interlude. A city in the sea
  • Chapter 1. Scare cities
  • Interlude. Fieldwork
  • Chapter 2. Settlement
  • Interlude. Renewing water
  • Chapter 3. Time Pé (on time)
  • Interlude. Flood
  • Chapter 4. Social work
  • Interlude. River/sewer
  • Chapter 5. Leaks
  • Interlude. Jharna (spring)
  • Chapter 6. Disconnection
  • Interlude. Miracles.