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- Book Title
- The Kuhls of Kangra
- Publication Name
- Kuhls of Kangra : Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya
- Title
- The Kuhls of Kangra
- EAN
- 9780295984919
- ISBN
- 9780295984919
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release Year
- 2005
- Release Date
- 30/09/2005
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya
- ISBN-10
- 0295984910
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Genre
- Science Nature & Math
- Series
- Culture, Place, and Nature Ser.
- Contributor
- K. Sivaramakrishnan (Series edited by)
- Subject
- Development / General, Land Use, Development / Economic Development, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Natural Resources, Agriculture / Irrigation
- Subject Area
- Technology & Engineering, Nature, Law, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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In the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed kuhl systems - intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels - for their rice and wheat farming. Over the years, earthquakes and floods have repeatedly destroyed villagers' kuhls. More recently, increasing nonfarm employment has drawn labor away from kuhl maintenance and from farming itself. Prevailing theories of common property resource management suggest that such conditions should cause the kuhls to die out; instead, most have beentransformed and remain alive and well. In this book, Mark Baker offers a comprehensive explanation for the durability of the kuhls of Kangra in the face of recurring environmental shocks and socioeconomic change. In addition to describing how farmers use and organize the kuhls, he employs varied lines of theory and empirical data to account for the persistence of most kuhls (and the demise of a few) in the late twentieth century. Into his explanatory framework he incorporates the history of regional politics and economics as they affected kuhls during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods; the role of state involvement in kuhl construction and management; the benefits of exchanges of labor and water among members of networked kuhls; and the ways in which kuhl systems are embedded in and reproduce core cultural beliefs and practices. Scholars interested in common property resource regimes have long focused on self-organizing, community-based irrigation systems. Yet their theories cannot entirely account for the durability of common property regimes under the extreme conditions of ecological stress, economic change, and social differentiation that exist in Kangra. Baker adds new dimensions to such theories by reaching beyond them to incorporate "exogenous" factors such as the roles statemaking practices play in common property resource regimes, the importance of networks in buffering individual resource regimes from environmental stress, and the ways in which regimes are sites for reproducing and occasionally contesting the relations that constitute place and region. In doing so, he advances a new way of thinking about community-based systems of resource management--a timely subject given recent trends in many countries toward the devolution of authority over natural resource management from government to rural communities.
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295984910
ISBN-13
9780295984919
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44779354
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Kuhls of Kangra : Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Development / General, Land Use, Development / Economic Development, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Natural Resources, Agriculture / Irrigation
Publication Year
2005
Series
Culture, Place, and Nature Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Technology & Engineering, Nature, Law, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2005-000291
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Hd1289.I5b35 2005
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"The Kuhls of Kangra represents a significant contribution to land and resource use issues in south Asia and offers a trenchant, grounded critique of common property resources theory." Vinay K. Gidwani, University of Minnesota"Of interest to anthropologists and historians of India, I expect this to become one of the major classics in the field." Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University
Table of Content
Preface Introduction 1. An Explanatory Tapestry 2. The Dynamic Landscape of Kuhl Irrigation 3. Statemaking and Irrigation in Kangra 4. Patterns of Change 5. Networks of Interdependence 6. Dynamic Regimes, Enduring Flows Appendix 1: A Note on Methods Appendix 2: Two Kuhl Stories Recounted by Shyam Lal Sharma Appendix 3: Summary Characteristics of Kuhl Regimes of the Neugal Watershed Notes Glossary References Index
Copyright Date
2005
Dewey Decimal
333.91/3/095452
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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