2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The Great Hydraulic Transition: colonial engineers and modern rivers in South Asia
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16K01981
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
デスーザ ローハン 京都大学, アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科, 准教授 (60767903)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | Floods / Colonial Engineering / Environmental History / Dams / Perennial Irrigation / Embankments |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
For the second phase (2017), I have completed most of my second round of data collection (Delhi, Guwahati, Roorkee: February 22nd to March 15th ). I have also presented my arguments in workshops and conferences.
I presented my major findings in two internationals conferences:
a) ‘The Great Hydraulic Transition: Colonial engineering and the making of Modern Rivers in South Asia’, Asian Research Institute, National University Singapore, Singapore, 4th September 2017.
b)‘Sustainability against “Safe Operating Space”: India’s cusec-megawatt rivers and writing environmental history in the Anthropocene’, Environmental Justice and Sustainable Citizenship, Global Asia Initiative (GAI) at Duke and Duke Kunshan University, Conference on Environmental Humanities in Asia, Kunshan (China), May 22-24, 2017.
I have completed and submitted articles in two peer reviewed journals. One to the journal Geoforum has completed the peer review process and I am required to complete some corrections before the piece may be reconsidered for publication. I am awaiting the peer review from the second journal, Environmental History.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
As stated above.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The last leg of my field work is required to be completed in London, United Kingdom. I am hoping to complete two weeks of research at the British Library Office to study the India Office Records and Private Papers.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Travel plan needed to be changed according to the availability of materials.
I wish to use the funds for field work to the United Kingdom. I will be consulting the British Library and specially their India Office Private Papers Collection.
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Research Products
(4 results)
