Large Dams and Changes in an Agrarian Society: Gendering the Impacts of Damodar Valley Corporation in Eastern India

This paper traces the gendered changes in agrarian livelihoods in the lower Damodar valley of eastern India and connects these changes to the large dam project of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). The DVC, established in 1948, was one of the earliest dam projects in India. Although it was not fu...

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Main Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Water Alternatives Association 2012-06-01
Series:Water Alternatives
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Online Access:http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol5/v5issue2/183-a5-2-19/file