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1 Rosin, R. T.. 1993. The tradition of groundwater irrigation in Northwestern India. Human Ecology, 21(1):51-86.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3290 Record No: H013883)
Ethnographic research in the central Aravalli Hills of Rajastan documents a coherent system of groundwater irrigation distinctively different from the system of dams, weirs, and perennial canals redesigned for India by the British during the early nineteenth century and continued by contemporary Indian governments. This paper articulates these indigenous principles and practices and contrasts them with those found in the scholarly literature on irrigation in Rajastan which follows modern engineering concerns. Our analysis indicates a different set of questions to guide future research on surface impoundments and groundwater management. Furthermore, this study has broader implications for an understanding of the human-shaped hydrology of northwestern India, where the earlier system has been overlaid, but not fully displaced by subsequent irrigation projects. Indeed, indigenous practices involving groundwater recharge and retrieval may have continued to flourish and expand, achieving a new order of hydrologic and adaptive complexity, through the local initiative of the peasantry to adapt to the unintended spillage, soakage, and siltage from the grand system of dams and perennial canals constructed by the state.
2 Rosin, R. T.. 1995. An ethnographer's perspective on the groundwater crisis: A longitudinal case study of a Rajasthani village. In Moench, M. (Ed.), Groundwater management: The supply dominated focus of traditional, NGO and government efforts. Ahmedabad, India: VIKSAT. pp.5-41.
Groundwater depletion ; Water scarcity ; Water shortage ; Aquifers ; Recharge ; Water quality ; Water harvesting ; Rain ; Runoff ; Decision making ; History ; Case studies ; Surface water ; Conjunctive use ; Wells ; Dams ; Conflict ; River basins / India / Central Rajasthan / Aravalli Hills / Nagaur District / Gangwa Village
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.6.3 G635 MOE Record No: H027661)
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