The Sacred Waters of Varanasi

Auteur

Mahesh Gogate is affiliated researcher at Kyoto University, Japan and studying the dynamic and fluid topography of Varanasi city, India. Before academia, he worked in the software the industry, and spent many years working as a research associate.

Texte du rabat

This book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely deluged metropolitan cities and other parts of India in recent years.

Contenu

Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. City of Waters

2. The Tale of Two Maps

3. Draining the Wet City

4. Debating Heritage Ecologies

Conclusion

Appendices

Bibliography

Index