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National Waters

From being a backwater where scholars lurk in murky archives, India's environmental history is now a lively torrent, brimming with novel ideas and perspectives. A bookshelf studded with superb recent works like Thomas R. Trautmann's Elephants and Kings and Neeladri Bhattacharya's The Great Agrarian Conquest now bulges with two more big books: Sudipta Sen's Ganga: The Many Pasts of a River and Sunil Amrith's

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