| Project/Area Number |
20K12319
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 80010:Area studies-related
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
D'Souza Rohan 京都大学, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 教授 (60767903)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥130,000 (Direct Cost: ¥100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥30,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | River / Fish / Natural resource / Biological pulse / Large dams / Navigation / Environmental history / Rivers / Colonialism / Biological-Pulse / Environmental History / Floods / Anthropocene / Large Dams / Biological Pulse |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
In recent years a considerable scholarship has emerged on the rivers of South Asia. In the span of barely a decade, ten full-fledged monographs have thus far been published on the environmental histories of rivers in South Asia. Despite this overriding interests in the theme, however, the notion of the river itself has remained firmly rooted within the resource framework and little by way of mention has been made of the complexities of fisheries and the biological energies of these river systems. There is, therefore, a needed conceptual corrective that is required.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I would list three major achievements. The first is that I have successfully uncovered hitherto unseen archival sources which deal with the issue of fisheries in the Eastern deltas of colonial British India. I have also collected archival materials from the Madras and the Bengal state archives, which I am working for forthcoming research papers. The Second is that these sources have enabled me to make paper presentations in international conferences, workshops. In particular, the workshop in April 2023 at Duke University, USA. I was able to present compelling arguments based on my primary source material for a claim to understand India’s Eastern rivers as ‘biological pulses’ rather than as resource endowments. The Third is that my paper titled ‘Fins In the inland Ocean and the River as Pulse in Monsoon Asia’has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming book. The paper is entirely based on the research work and resources afforded by this Kaken.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
I helped uncover unseen and neglected primary sources on fisheries in Eastern India during the British colonial period. I am also the first to have effectively argued that the study of rivers in South Asia has been overwhelmingly treated as an economic resource rather than a biological pulse.
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