Focusing on India's complex transboundary river water disputes, the book delves into the historical and political contexts involving its South Asian neighbors: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. It analyzes current conflicts and highlights future challenges, providing a comprehensive understanding of the intricate dynamics surrounding water resources in the region.
Focusing on the complexities of water issues in India, this book delves into Centre-State and inter-State relations within the context of the federal structure. It critically assesses the effectiveness of this framework in resolving inter-state river water disputes, using three significant cases: the Cauvery, Krishna, and Mahadayi disputes. Through detailed analysis, the book highlights the challenges and dynamics involved in managing water resources in a federal system.
This book is in pursuit of Alice, whose name rhymes with gallus. That, however, is another memory, another book waiting to germinate. John Lang (1816-1864), inebriated on John Exshaw, 'a ruling spirit of those days', most of his adult life, was a dogged underdog from Sydney, who spared no effort to hurt the John Company (East India Company). He settled in India at the age of 26, and was a prolific writer, journalist and lawyer. His novels were too feminist for Victorian comfort, while his white male protagonists were often described with the phrase-'India he loved, England he despised.' As a journalist he was irreverent towards the army and legal systems; modern journalists could take a lesson or two from Mr Lang. As a lawyer, John Lang learnt Persian and Urdu fast so that he could argue cases in the lower courts. He fought a number of important cases for Indians against the John Company, and won some-the establishment found a way to send him to jail. The Rani of Jhansi was so impressed, she invited him to be her lawyer. There was a party going on at Lang's house when he died. He said that a party should not be stopped just on account of his ill health.