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One valley and a thousand: dams, nationalism and development/ Daniel Klingensmith

By: Klingensmith, Daniel Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xiv, 315 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0195687833Subject(s): Tennessee Valley Authority | Damodar Valley Corporation | Dams--Economic aspects | Dams--Political aspects | Dams--Social aspectsDDC classification: 320.54

Contents:

Foreword / Mahesh Rangarajan -- Introduction: Dams and Development after Sixty Years -- 1. 'The Grand Job of this Century': The Early TVA in Politics and Ideology, 1933-45 -- 2. 'Patience and a Desire to Teach': The 'TVA Idea' in American Liberal Nationalism, 1945-65 -- 3. 'River Training': The Damodar as the Tennessee, 1943-48 -- 4. TVA on the Damodar: The DVC, 1946-64 -- 5. Nationalist Engineering: Building India's Dams, 1945-70 -- 6. 'Temples of the New Age': Development and the Limits of Legitimation, 1947-64 -- Conclusion: The Nation and its Rivers.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	320.54 KLI/O (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P03289

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Foreword / Mahesh Rangarajan --
Introduction: Dams and Development after Sixty Years --
1. 'The Grand Job of this Century': The Early TVA in Politics and Ideology, 1933-45 --
2. 'Patience and a Desire to Teach': The 'TVA Idea' in American Liberal Nationalism, 1945-65 --
3. 'River Training': The Damodar as the Tennessee, 1943-48 --
4. TVA on the Damodar: The DVC, 1946-64 --
5. Nationalist Engineering: Building India's Dams, 1945-70 --
6. 'Temples of the New Age': Development and the Limits of Legitimation, 1947-64 --
Conclusion: The Nation and its Rivers.

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