Hydraulic City Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found...

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Main Author: Anand, Nikhil (auth)
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Language:English
Published: Durham NC Duke University Press 2017
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