1st Edition
Environment and Pollution in Colonial India Sewerage Technologies along the Sacred Ganges
By Janine Wilhelm
Copyright 2016
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
208 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and urbanisation. This book, in contrast, shows that some important early roots of India’s river pollution problem, and in particular the pollution of the Ganges, lie with British colonial policies on wastewater disposal during the late 19th and early 20th... Read more
Introduction
1. A Rivers Pollution Prevention Act for India?
2. River of Disease
3. Local Self-Government and River Pollution
4. Biological Sewage Treatment in the United Provinces: Trial and Failure
5. Biological Sewage Treatment in Calcutta: The Septic Tank Controversy
6. Conclusion
Biography
Janine Wilhelm is Research associate at the Chair for History of the Modern World, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland.
