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TRADITIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS OF INDIA
Publisher:
Aryan Books International
| Author:
Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty et al.
| Language:
English
| Format:
Harback
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Aryan Books International
Author:
Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty et al.
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The book is based on seminar proceedings on Traditional Water Management Systems organised by the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and held in four components, at Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Pune and Bhandara. Apart from presenting history of water management in India from ancient to contemporary times, this book brings out managerial, legal and financial problems which stand in the way of recycling of local water harvesting structures. Simple techniques of conserving water, farmer managed irrigation systems, law and policy of water management, study of tanks, recharging of springs, Chalcolitic irrigation in Pune Distt. etc. are some of the topics dealt with in detail. As the theme of the seminar suggests, site-specific examples of various water management systems have been given from archaeological record and contemporary contexts. This book has thirty three articles as well as suggestions and recommen-dations written by eminent scholars, which will prove useful in implementing various programmes. The papers bring out the fact that traditional water harvesting strategies continue to be relevant in development planning today. Such themes are not generally tackled by research organisations and govern-mental institutions. This work should, therefore, be a welcome addition to all libraries interested in the history and development of water management in India.
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The book is based on seminar proceedings on Traditional Water Management Systems organised by the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal and held in four components, at Bhopal, Ahmedabad, Pune and Bhandara. Apart from presenting history of water management in India from ancient to contemporary times, this book brings out managerial, legal and financial problems which stand in the way of recycling of local water harvesting structures. Simple techniques of conserving water, farmer managed irrigation systems, law and policy of water management, study of tanks, recharging of springs, Chalcolitic irrigation in Pune Distt. etc. are some of the topics dealt with in detail. As the theme of the seminar suggests, site-specific examples of various water management systems have been given from archaeological record and contemporary contexts. This book has thirty three articles as well as suggestions and recommen-dations written by eminent scholars, which will prove useful in implementing various programmes. The papers bring out the fact that traditional water harvesting strategies continue to be relevant in development planning today. Such themes are not generally tackled by research organisations and govern-mental institutions. This work should, therefore, be a welcome addition to all libraries interested in the history and development of water management in India.
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An M.P.A. in Public Administration and Ph.D. in Art History from Harvard University, Dr. Kalyan Kumar Chakravarty (IAS, 1970) is a serving Secretary to the Government of India, on deputation to the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi as its Trustee and Member Secretary. Dr. Chakravarty has published and lectured extensively on anthropology, museology, archaeology, art history and on bio-cultural diversity. He has held charge of various sectors like Education and Culture, Environment and Forests, Science and Technology and Manpower Planning. He has headed the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums in Madhya Pradesh, the National Museum of Mankind at Bhopal and the National Museum at Delhi. His lifelong focus has been on rebuilding bridges between arts and life, culture and development, communities and public purpose institutions, and on regenerating local knowledge systems in the management of natural resources in contemporary contexts. Dr. Gyani Lal Badam, a leading quaternary geologist and palaeontologist, has established the discipline of palaeontology at the Deccan College Postgraduate and Research Institute, Pune, where his academic interests diversified to include river valleys and water harvesting structures in central and peninsular India. A Fullbright scholar-in-residence earlier at Oregon University, he has published extensively on palaeo-environmental and ecological issues. At present, Dr. Badam is a Senior Consultant assisting the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in New Delhi to establish nexus between natural and social sciences, and is providing scientific inputs in cultural informatics. Dr. Vijay Paranjpye, is basically a plant ecologist and worked for sometime as a faculty member in a local college in Pune before joining Econet, a Non-Goverment Organisation. He became interested in areas like traditional water management, study of dams on the Narmada and other river valleys in Maharashtra and also in ecological constrain
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