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According to Rudyard Kipling, death was always a 'near companion' in colonial India. Thousands of European sepulchral monuments survive till today and these still constitute an eminent cultural asset. However, most of them are in precarious condition: The tropical climate with its abundant rainfall, lush vegetation, peoples need for land, neglect and vandalism regularly take their toll on them. This book investigates death and colonial cemeteries in south India ...
Water is indispensable for all life on earth. Since ancient times, the control of fresh-water resources and also the sea facilitated the rise of communal structures and administrative institutions across Europe and Asia. Many states tightened their authority by creaming off agricultural surpluses from irrigated lands. The more effective the irrigational systems, the higher state twentieth century, research on such community-based irrigation was dominated by Karl ...