Skip to main content
table of contents
WORKS CITED
PRIMARY SOURCES
British Colonial Government Documents
- Bourne, John. 1856. Public Works in India: Being a Letter to the Right Honourable Richard Vernon Smith, M.P. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts.
- Cotton, Sir Arthur. 1854. Public Works in India, Their Importance. London: Richardson Brothers.
- EIICC (East India Irrigation and Canal Company). 1860. Prospectus—A Selection of Extracts from Various Official Reports and Documents, &c. Showing the Importance and Remunerative Character of Works of Irrigation and Water Transit in India. United Kingdom: n.p.
- GC (Governor in Council). 1856. First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into and Report upon the System of Superintending and Executing Public Works in the Madras Presidency, Submitted to the Governor in Council. Madras: Church of Scotland Mission Press.
- GM (Government of Madras). 1858. Standing Orders of the Board of Revenue 1820– 65 (Land Revenue Settlement and Miscellaneous). Vol. 2. Government of Madras. September 23.
- Grant, William. 1857. The Circular and Standing Orders of the Department of Public Works from 1833 to 8th July 1857. Madras: Press of the Society for Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
- HD (Home Department). 1905. Summary of the Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor General of India, in the Home Department. I.—January 1899 to April 1904. II.—December 1904 to November 1905. Simla: Government Central Branch Press.
- Maskell, John. 1856. “The Circular Orders of the Board of Revenue Issued during the Year 1856.” Madras Presidency.
- MP (Madras Presidency). 1852. First Report of the Commissioner. Madras Presidency: Government Press.
- ________. 1902. Preliminary Report on the Investigation of Protective Irrigation Works and on Irrigation under Wells in the Madras Presidency. Madras: Government Press.
- ________. 1907. Report of the Administration of the Madras Presidency during the Year 1906–1907. Madras: Government Press.
- PWD. (Public Works Department) 1868. Summary of the Principal Measures Carried out in the Public Works Department during the Administration of Sir John L. M. Lawrence Viceroy and Governor General of India, from January 1864 to January 1869. Calcutta, India: Public Works Department Press.
- ________. 1869. Civil Engineer Grievances in the Department. London: Charing Cross.
- ________. 1898. Summary of the Principal Measures of the ViceRoyalty of the Earl of Elgin in the Public Works, 1898. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India
- ________. 1903. Report of the Indian Irrigation Commission. London: Darling and Son.
- PWDH (Public Works Department, Hyderabad). 1937. Proceedings of Conference on the Proposed Tungabhadra Project. PWD office Hyderabad. July 15–17.
- PWDI (Public Works Department [Irrigation]). 1938. Government of Madras GO, no. 1372, June 27.
- SB (Secretary of Bombay). 1935. PWD no. 7242-T, June 5, 1935, reproduced in Government of Madras Public Works Department (Irrigation) GO, no. 1327. June 27, 1938.
- Tyrrell, L.-C. 1873. Public Works Reform in India. London: Edward, Bumpus, Holborn Bars.
Government of India Documents and Reports
- ARC (Administrative Reforms Commission). 1973. A Report on the Public Works Administration. Vol. 1. Madras: Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Census of India. 2011. “Chapter 1 Population, Size, and Decadal Change.” Government of India. www
.censusindia .gov .in /2011census /PCA /PCA _Highlights /pca _highlights _file /India /Chapter -1 .pdf. - Census Organization of India. 2011. Census 2011 India. www
.census2011 .co .in. - Constituent Assembly of India. 1949. “Constituent Assembly Debates on 10 October, 1949 Part I.” https://
indiankanoon .org /doc /735670. - Government of India. 1949. Constitution of India. National Portal of India. www
.india .gov .in /my -government /constitution -india /constitution -india -full -text. - ________. 1988. “Executive Summary: India’s Urbanisation Policy.” Habitat International 12 (3): 99–102.
- LS (Lok Sabha, Government of India). 2019. The Inter-state River Water Disputes (Amendment) Act, 2019. Lok Sabha, Government of India. http://
164 .100 .47 .4 /BillsTexts /LSBillTexts /Asintroduced /46 _2017 _LS _Eng .pdf. - MF (Ministry of Finance). 2016. Economic Survey 2015–16: Services Sector Remains the Key Driver of Economic Growth Contributing almost 66.1% in 2015–16. Government of India. http://
pib .nic .in /newsite /PrintRelease .aspx ?relid =136868. - Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India. 2018. “Cities Profile of Round 1 Smart Cities.” Smart Cities Mission. http://
smartcities .gov .in /content /innerpage /cities -profile -of -20 -smart -cities .php. - Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Planning Commission, Government of India. 2017. “Sector-Wise Contribution of GDP of India” Statistictimes.com. http://
statisticstimes .com /economy /sectorwise -gdp -contribution -of -india .php. - MP (Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, & Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances). 2010. “Civil Services Survey: A Report. Government of India.” New Delhi: Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances, Government of India. http://
unpan1 .un .org /intradoc /groups /public /documents /cgg /unpan046740 .pdf. - MRD (Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India). 2002. “Guidelines on Swajaldhara, 2002.” Department of Drinking Water Supply. http://
ielrc .org /content /e0212 .pdf. - MWR (Ministry of Water Resources). 1987. “National Water Policy, 1987.” 2017. www
.rainwaterharvesting .org /Downloads /nwp1987 .pdf. - ________. 2002. Annual Report, 2001–2002. http://
jalshakti -dowr .gov .in /sites /default /files /anu41036322978 _3 .pdf. - ________. 2002. “National Water Policy.” New Delhi: Government of India. http://
jalshakti -dowr .gov .in /sites /default /files /nwp20025617515534 _1 .pdf. - ________. 2014. New Delhi. Government of India. Annual Report 2013–2014. http://
mowr .gov .in /sites /default /files /AR _2013–14 _1 .pdf. - ________. 2016. “Draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016.” Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resources, River Development, and Ganga Rejuvenation. http://
mowr .gov .in /sites /default /files /Water _Framework _May _2016 .pdf. - ________. 2018. “History: Organizational History of the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.” Ministry of Jal Shakti, Department of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation. http://
jalshakti -dowr .gov .in /about -us /history. - Palat, Mohandas. 2003. “Swajladhara Guidelines.” New Delhi: Ministry of Rural Development.
- PC (Planning Commission Yojana Bhawan New Delhi). 2007. Report of the Expert Group on “Ground Water Management and Ownership.” New Delhi: Government of India Planning Commission. www
.indiawaterportal .org /sites /indiawaterportal .org /files /PC _Groundwater _0 .pdf. - Prasad, Kamta. 2008. Institutional Framework for Regulating Use of Ground Water in India. Central Ground Water Board, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India. http://
cgwb .gov .in /INCGW /Kamta%20Prasad%20report .pdf. - PRI (Parliament of the Republic of India). 2002. The Inter-state Water Disputes (Amendment) Act, 2002. Parliament of the Republic of India. https://
indiankanoon .org /doc /1048477. - Prime Minister’s Office, Government of India. 2011. 2011 PM Speech Overview. Press Information Bureau. http://
pib .gov .in /newsite /PrintRelease .aspx ?relid =78562. - Reddy, D. Y. V. 2015. The Fourteenth Finance Commission (FC-XIV). Government of India: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
- SCI (Supreme Court of India). 2006. “In the Supreme Court of India Civil Original Jurisdiction Original Suit No. 3 of 2006.” https://
main .sci .gov .in /jonew /bosir /orderpdfold /1981163 .pdf. - ________. 2007. “Supreme Court of India Record of Proceedings Civil Appeal NO. 2453/2007.” Supreme Court of India. www
.sci .gov .in /pdf /cir /2017–03–21 _1490100979 .pdf. - Sheelapriya, M. 2008. Statistical Handbook of Tamil Nadu 2008. Chennai: Principal Secretary and Director, Department of Economics and Statistics.
International Organizations Documents and Reports
- Agrawal, Pronita Chakrabarti. 2008. Performance Improvement Planning: Upgrading and Improving Urban Water Services. Water and sanitation program overview paper. WSP. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /2008 /04 /9520938 /performance -improvement -planning -upgrading -improving -urban -water -services. - Baietti, Aldo, and Peter Raymond. 2005. Financing Water Supply and Sanitation Investments: Utilizing Risk Mitigation Instruments to Bridge the Financing Gap. Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board discussion paper series, no. 4. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /200 /01 /5730871 /financing -water -supply -sanitation -investments -utilizing -risk -mitigation -instruments -bridge -financing -gap. - Baumann, Pari, Vasudha Chhotray, James J. Emery, John Malcolm Kerr, and Grant Milne. 2006. Managing Watershed Externalities in India. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /2006 /04 /7047191 /managing -watershed -externalities -india. - Burton, Martin, and Amarjit Sing Dhingra. 2014. India: Support for the Implementation of the National Water Mission by State Governments in India. Asian Development Bank. Vol. 1 (November) Main Report. New Delhi: Asian Development Bank.
- CWR (Centre for Water Resources). 2003. Role of Women, Small and Marginal Farmers as Stakeholders in Lower Bhavnani, Sathanur and Ponnaiyar Systems. Institute of Water Studies, World Bank.
- Foster, Vivien, Subhrendu Pattanayak, and Linda Stalker Prokopy. 2003. “Do Current Water Subsidies Reach the Poor?” Water Tariffs & Subsidies in South Asia (April 2003): 1–10. https://
openknowledge .worldbank .org /bitstream /handle /10986 /17260 /349610Current0water0WaterTariffs .pdf ?sequence =1&isAllowed =y. - Kacker, Suneetha Dasappa, Tracey Osborne Miller, and S. R. Ramanujam. 2014. Running Water in India’s Cities: A Review of Five Recent Public-Private Partnership Initiatives. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /2014 /01 /18882071 /running -water -indias -cities -review -five -recent -public -private -partnership -initiatives. - Mcintosh, Arthur Charles, and Thelma A. Triche. 2009. India—Improving Water Supply and Sanitation Services for the Urban Poor in India. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /2009 /03 /16704206 /india -improving -water -supply -sanitation -services -urban -poor -india. - Morse, Bradford, and Thomas Berger. 1992. Sardar Sarovar: The Report of the Independent Review. International Environmental Law Research Centre. Ottawa: Resources Futures International.
- OEDWB (Operations Evaluation Department, World Bank). 2005. ICR Review: Report No. ICRR12141, July 20, 2005.
- Rajagopal, Srinivasan Raj. 2005. Implementation Completion Report, World Bank, Report No. 31721, May 31, 2005. Washington, DC: World Bank. https://
documents1 .worldbank .org /curated /en /112241468043455602 /pdf /31721 .pdf. - Swaroop, Ananda. 2011. Trends in Private Sector Participation in the Indian Water Sector: A Critical Review. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /2011 /01 /15762923 /trends -private -sector -participation -indian -water -sector -critical -review. - UNDP. 1985. UNDP Report, Second Mission Report on Proposals for Planning and Management of Water Resources for Madras City 1085. New York City: United Nations.
- WB (World Bank). 1987. India—National Water Management Project. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /1987 /02 /739735 /india -national -water -management -project. - ________. 1995a. Staff Appraisal Report—India Tamil Nadu Water Resources Consolidation Project. World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /149291468750308623 /pdf /multi0page .pdf. - ________. 1995b. Tamil Nadu Water Resources Consolidation Project. World Bank. http://
projects .worldbank .org /P010476 /tamil -nadu -water -resources -consolidation -project ?lang =en&tab =overview. - ________. 1995c. India—Second Madras Water Supply Project. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /1995 /05 /697332 /india -second -madras -water -supply -project. - ________. 1995d. Learning from Narmada—Independent Evaluation Group (IEG). World Bank Group. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /777211468249297544 /pdf /28514 .pdf. - ________. 1997. Implementation Completion Report–India—National Water Management Project. Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /1997 /01 /732024 /india -national -water -management -project. - ________. 1998a. India—Water Resources Management Sector Review: Groundwater Regulation and Management Report. World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /372491468752788129 /India -Water -resources -management -sector -review -groundwater -regulation -and -management -report. - ________. 1998b. India—Water Resources Management Sector Review: Report on the Irrigation Sector. World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /785521468775824994 /India -Water -resources -management -sector -review -report -on -the -irrigation -sector. - ________. 2000. Politicians for Reform: Proceedings of the State Ministers Workshop on Rural Water Supply Policy Reforms in India. Water and Sanitation Program–South Asia. New Delhi: World Bank.
- ________. 2001. Capacity-Building for Sector Reforms: The Rural Program—India Country Team. Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /2001 /04 /2171984 /capacity -building -sector -reforms -rural -program -india -country -team. - ________. 2004. India- Second Madras Water Supply Project (English). World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /865341468750544187 /India -Second -Madras -Water -Supply -Project. - ________. 2005. India—Tamil Nadu Water Resources Consolidation Project (English). Washington, DC: World Bank. http://
documents .worldbank .org /curated /en /112241468043455602 /India -Tamil -Nadu -Water -Resources -Consolidation -Project. - ________. 2014. Running Water in India’s Cities: A Review of Five Recent Public-Private Partnership Initiatives. https://
openknowledge .worldbank .org /bitstream /handle /10986 /17747 /843840WSP0Box30tnership0Initiatives .pdf ?sequence =1&isAllowed =y. - WBIEU (World Bank Infrastructure and Energy Unit). 2005. Project Appraisal Document Third Tamil Nadu Urban Development Project. https://
documents1 .worldbank .org /curated /en /521631468033574527 /pdf /31839a .pdf. - World Water Council. 2018. “8th World Water Forum Roundtables Reports.” World Water Council. www
.worldwatercouncil .org /sites /default /files /Forum _docs /Ministerial _Roundtables _Report .pdf.
Tamil Nadu State Government Documents and Reports
- Anbu, V. Irai. 2016. Statistical Handbook of Tamil Nadu 2017. Government of Tamil Nadu. August 1, 2018. www
.tn .gov .in /deptst. - CE (Chief Engineer, State Ground Surface Water Resources Data Centre, WRO PWD). 2005. “Ground Water Perspectives: A Profile of Chennai District, 2005.”
- Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board. 2016. “Metro Water Expanded Chennai City Status of Water Supply Scheme.” Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board. www
.chennaimetrowater .tn .nic .in /pdf /NEW -CITYWSS .pdf. - EES (Employment Exchange Statistics–Live Register). 2021. Government of Tamil Nadu, March 4, 2021. www
.tn .gov .in /sites /default /files /emp _statistics _Feb _2021 .pdf. - GM (Government of Madras). 1958. Standing Order of the Board Revenue (Land Revenue Settlement and Miscellaneous). Vol 2. Madras: Government of Madras.
- GTN (Government of Tamil Nadu). 1986. “Tamil Nadu Public Works Department Code.” 3rd ed. Madras: Government of Tamil Nadu.
- ________. 1994. “Government of Tamil Nadu Order G.O. Ms no. (PED) 1184.”
- ________. Expert Committee on Rainwater Harvesting and Safeguarding Groundwater. 2000. “Measures for Augmenting Drinking Water Resources for Chennai and Its Suburbs, Occasional Paper 1.” Government of Tamil Nadu.
- ________. 2002. Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary Act no. 37 of 2002. Government of Tamil Nadu. www
.chennaimetrowater .tn .nic .in /pdf /e0219 .pdf. - ________. 2003. Report of the Expert Committee on Development and Management of Water Resources of Tamil Nadu. Vol. 1. Chennai: Water Resources Organization.
- ________. 2011. “Urban Scenario in Tamil Nadu Census of India 2011.” www
.tn .gov .in /cma /Urban -Report .pdf. - ________. 2016. “Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, Policy Note Demand no. 34, 2016–2017.” http://
cms .tn .gov .in /sites /default /files /documents /maws _e _pn _2016 _17 .pdf. - GWB (Government of Tamil Nadu Ground Water Branch). 1992. Pallar River Basin: Water Users. Institute for Water Studies, Madras.
- IWS (Institute for Water Studies). 1994. “Agriculture Department, G.O. Ms no. 559, 09.10.91.” Water Resources Assessment and Management Strategies for Madras Basin: A-26-A27. Madras: Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Kafeel, Nilofer. 2016. Labour and Employment Department Policy Note 2016–2017. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu.
- MMDA (Madras Metropolitan Development Authority). 1993. Stormwater Drainage Masterplan for Madras City and the Feasibility Study for Madras Metropolitan Area Report. Chennai: Government of Tamil Nadu.
- Mohanakrishnan, A. 2011a. History of the Krishna Water Supply Project for Chen- nai City Annexures and Maps. Advisor to Government of Tamil Nadu (Water Resources).
- ________. 2011b. History of the Krishna Water Supply Project for Chennai City. Government of Tamil Nadu (Water Resources).
- ORG (Operations Resource Group). 1994. Rehabilitation Action Plan for Project Affected Persons of Mordhana Reservoir, Scheme. Chennai: Public Works Department.
- Palaniswami, E. K. 2017. “Public Works Department Irrigation Policy Note 2017–2018 Demand no. 40.” Government of Tamil Nadu.
- PWD (Public Works Department). n.d.a. “Water Resource Department—TNWRD.” Accessed December 6, 2018. http://
tnwrd .gov .in /water -resource -department. - ________. n.d.b. “Institute for Water Studies Activities.” Water Resources Department. www
.wrd .tn .gov .in /IWS /IWS _activities .pdf. - ________, Water Resources Organisation. 1994. “Water Resources Assessment and Management Strategies for Madras Basin.” Institute for Water Studies, Madras. IWS Report no. 12/94.
- ________, Water Resources Organisation. 1997. “State Framework Water Resources Plan Annexure 1 Chennai Basin Group.” Institute for Water Studies. IWS Report no. 3/97.
- TNUDF (Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund). n.d. “Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund.” September 6, 2016. www
.tnudf .com /tnudf .asp. - ________. 2016. Annual Report 2015–2016. Chennai: Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund. http://
www .tnuifsl .com /documents /annual _reports /ar1516 .pdf. - ________. 2020. Annual Report 2019–2020. Chennai: Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund. http://
tnuifsl .com /documents /annual _reports /ar1920 .pdf. - TNUIFSL. n.d. “City Corporate Plan/City Development Plan/Town Investment Plan.” http://
tnuifsl .com /ccpbp .asp. - WRCP (Tamil Nadu Water Resources Consolidation Project, Management Consultancy and Technical Assistance). 2001. Water Plan Palar River Basin Executive Summary Prepared by Tahel Consultancy Engineers and Associates, Assisted by IWS and WRO. August 23.
- WRD (Water Resources Department), PWD. 2018. “Participatory Irrigation Management—TNWRD.” Government of Tamil Nadu. http://
tnwrd .gov .in /web /operation -maintenance -website /participatory -irrigation -management. - WRO (Water Resources Organisation). 1996. Technical Proposal for Consultancy Services Tamil Nadu Water Resources Consolidation Project. Chennai: State of Tamil Nadu.
SECONDARY SOURCES
- Agarwal, Anil, and Sunita Narain, eds. 1997. Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India’s Traditional Water Harvesting Systems. New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment.
- Agarwal, Bina. 1994. A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Aiyer, Ananthakrishnan. 2008. “The Allure of the Transnational: Notes on Some Aspects of the Political Economy of Water in India.” Cultural Anthropology 22 (4): 640–58.
- Akhmouch, Aziza. 2012. “Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean.” OECD Regional Development Working Papers: 1–149.
- Anand, Nikhil. 2017. Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- Anbarasan, A. 2010. Development of Operational Guidelines for Equitable Distribution of Surface Water to Chennai City. Unpublished PhD thesis. Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University, Chennai.
- Arul, Carolin. 2008. Gaps in Irrigation Laws of Tamil Nadu. Unpublished PhD thesis. Chennai: Center for Water Resources, Anna University.
- Asthana, Vandana. 2009. Water Policy Processes in India: Discourses of Power and Resistance. New York: Routledge.
- Asthana, Vandana, and A. C. Shukla. 2014. Water Security in India: Hope, Despair, and the Challenges of Human Development. New York: Bloomsbury.
- Baer, Madeline. 2014. “Private Water, Public Good: Water Privatization and State Capacity in Chile.” Studies in Comparative International Development 49 (2): 141–67.
- Baietti, Aldo, and Peter Raymond. 2005. “Financing Water Supply and Sanitation Investments: Utilizing Risk Mitigation Instruments to Bridge the Financing Gap.” Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Discussion Paper Series 4.
- Bakker, Karen. 2010. Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the World’s Urban Water Crisis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Ballabh, Vishwa, ed. 2008. Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy. New Delhi: Sage.
- Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta. 2016. “New Institutional Structure for Water Security in India.” Economic and Political Weekly 51 (15): 15–17.
- Bardhan, Pranab K. 1984. The Political Economy of Development in India. Oxford: Blackwell.
- ________. 2014. “Comparative Corruption in China and India.” Indian Growth and Development Review 7 (1): 8–11.
- Bauer, Carl. 2010. “Market Approaches to Water Allocation: Lessons from Latin America.” Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education 144 (1): 44–49.
- Baviskar, Amita. 2004. “Between Micro-politics and Administrative Imperatives: Decentralisation and the Watershed Mission in Madhya Pradesh, India.” European Journal of Development Research 16 (1): 26–40.
- ________. 2005. In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada River. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- ________. 2007. “The Dream Machine: The Model Development Project and the Remaking of the State.” In Growth, Equity, Environment and Population: Economic and Sociological Perspectives, edited by Kanchan Chopra and C. H. Hanumantha Rao, 287–310. New Delhi: Sage.
- Bear, Laura, and Nayanika Mathur. 2015. “Remaking the Public Good: A New Anthropology of Bureaucracy Introduction.” Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 33 (1): 18–34.
- Benbabaali, Dalal. 2008. “Questioning the Role of the Indian Administrative Service in National Integration.” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.
- Benjamin, N. 1971. “Cauvery Water Dispute.” Economic and Political Weekly 6 (34): 1794–95.
- Bhambhri, Chandra Prakash. 1971. Bureaucracy and Politics in India. Delhi: Vikas.
- Bhide, Amita. 2017. “Directed Decentralisation: Analysing the Experience of Decentralisation via JNNURM in Maharashtra.” In Social Dynamics of the Urban: Studies from India, edited by N. Jayaram, 81–98. New Delhi: Springer.
- Biswas, Asit K., and Kris Hartley. 2017. “From Evidence to Policy in India’s Groundwater Crisis.” Diplomat. https://
thediplomat .com /2017 /07 /from -evidence -to -policy -in -indias -groundwater -crisis. - Björkman, Lisa. 2015. Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party). 2014. Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas Election Manifesto 2014. Bharatiya Janata Party. www
.bjp .org /images /pdf _2014 /full _manifesto _english _07 .04 .2014 .pdf. - Bourdieu, Pierre. 1994. “Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field.” Sociological Theory 12 (1): 1–18.
- Brenner, Neil. 2004. New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Briscoe, John, and R. P. S. Malik. 2006. India’s Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Budds, Jessica, and Gordon McGranahan. 2003. “Are the Debates on Water Privatization Missing the Point? Experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America.” Environment and Urbanization 15 (2): 87–114.
- Bussell, Jennifer. 2012. Corruption and Reform in India: Public Services in the Digital Age. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Butterworth, John, Raphaèle Ducrot, Nicolas Faysse, and S. Janakarajan, eds. 2007. Peri-urban Water Conflicts: Supporting Dialogue and Negotiation. The Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
- Celio, Mattia, Christopher A. Scott, and Mark Giordano. 2010. “Urban-Agricultural Water Appropriation: The Hyderabad, India Case.” Geographical Journal 176 (1): 39–57.
- Chandra, Kanchan. 2015. “The New Indian State.” Economic & Political Weekly 50 (41): 46–58.
- Chatterjee, Partha. 2006. The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Chinnasamy, Pennan, and Govindsamy Agoramoorthy. 2015. “Groundwater Storage and Depletion Trends in Tamil Nadu State, India.” Water Resources Management 29 (7): 2139–52.
- Chng, Nai Rui. 2008. “Privatization and Citizenship: Local Politics of Water in the Philippines.” Development 51 (1): 42–48.
- Chokkakula, Srinivas. 2014. “Inter-state Water Disputes: Perils and Prospects of Democratisation.” Economic and Political Weekly 9 (49): 75–81.
- Coelho, Karen. 2005a. “The Political Economy of Public Sector Water Utilities Reform.” Infochange Agenda 3: 13–17.
- ________. 2005b. “Unstating the ‘Public’: An Ethnography of Reform in an Urban Water Utility in South India.” The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development: 171–95.
- ________. 2010. “The Slow Road to the Private: A Case Study of Neoliberal Water Reforms in Chennai.” In Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws, edited by Phillipe Cullet, A. Goawlland-Gualtieri, R. Madhav, and U. Ramanathan, 1–20. Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
- ________. 2017. “The Canal and the City: An Urban-Ecological Lens on Chennai’s Growth.” In India’s Contemporary Urban Conundrum, edited by Sujata Patel and Omita Goyal, 287–300. London: Routledge.
- Coelho, Karen, and N. Raman. 2013. “From the Frying Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land, Water, and Fire in Chennai’s Development.” In Ecologies of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability, edited by Anne Rademacher and K. Sivaramakrishnan, 145–68. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
- Corbridge, Stuart, Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava, and René Véron. 2005. Seeing the State: Governance and Governmentality in India. Vol. 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Cullet, Philippe. 2009. Water Law, Poverty, and Development: Water Sector Reforms in India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Das, S. K. 2001. Public Office, Private Interest: Bureaucracy and Corruption in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Dasgupta, Simanti. 2015. BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
- de Freitas, Corin. 2015. “Old Chico’s New Tricks: Neoliberalization and Water Sector Reform in Brazil’s São Francisco River Basin.” Geoforum 64: 292–303.
- Deshpande, Rajeshwari, K. K. Kailash, and Louise Tillin. 2017. “States as Laboratories: The Politics of Social Welfare Policies in India.” India Review 16 (1): 85–105.
- Dhawan, B. D. 1995. “Magnitude of Groundwater Exploitation.” Economic and Political Weekly 30 (14): 769–75.
- D’Souza, Radha. 2002. “At the Confluence of Law and Geography: Contextualising Inter-state Water Disputes in India.” Geoforum 33 (2): 255–69.
- ________. 2009. “Nation vs. Peoples: Inter-state Water Disputes in India’s Supreme Court.” In Water and the Laws in India, edited by Ramaswamy R Iyer, 58–96. New Delhi: Sage.
- D’Souza, Rohan. 2006. Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Dubash, Navroz K. 2002. Tubewell Capitalism: Groundwater Development and Agrarian Change in Gujarat. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Dubash, Navroz K., and Bronwen Morgan, eds. 2013. The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South: Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Evans, Peter, and Patrick Heller. 2015. “Human Development, State Transformation and the Politics of the Developmental State.” In The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State, edited by Stephan Leibfried, Evelyne Huber, Matthew Lange, Jonah D. Levy, Frank Nullmeier, and John D. Stephens, 691–713. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Fernandes, Leela. 2004. “The Politics of Forgetting: Class Politics, State Power and the Restructuring of Urban Space in India.” Urban Studies 41 (12): 2415–30.
- ________. 2006. India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- ________, ed. 2018a. Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State. NY: New York University Press.
- ________. 2018b. “Inter-state Water Disputes in South India.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Asian History, 1–25. https://
doi .org /10 .1093 /acrefore /9780190277727 .013 .191. - Fioretos, Orfeo, Tulia G. Falleti, and Adam Sheingate. 2016. “Historical Institutionalism in Political Science.” In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, edited by Orfeo Fioretos, Tulia G. Falleti, and Adam Sheingate, 3–30. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Frankel, Francine R. 2015. India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Ganguly, Sumit, and William R. Thompson. 2017. Ascending India and Its State Capacity: Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira, and Timothy J. Scrase. 2009. Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms. New York: Routledge.
- Ghuman, Ranjit Singh, and Rajeev Sharma. 2018. Emerging Water Insecurity in India: Lessons from an Agriculturally Advanced State. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
- Gilmartin, David. 1994. “Scientific Empire and Imperial Science: Colonialism and Irrigation Technology in the Indus Basin.” Journal of Asian Studies 53 (4): 1127–49.
- Goldman, Michael, and Devika Narayan. 2019. “Water Crisis through the Analytic of Urban Transformation: An Analysis of Bangalore’s Hydrosocial Regimes.” Water International 44 (2): 95–114.
- Gopakumar, Govind. 2012. Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization. New York: Routledge.
- Goswami, Manu. 2004. Producing India: From Colonial Economy to National Space. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Gould, William. 2011. Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s–1960s. New York: Routledge.
- Guhan, Sanjivi. 1993. The Cauvery Dispute: Towards Conciliation. Madras: Frontline.
- Guerrero, Tatiana Acevedo, Kathryn Furlong, and Jeimy Arias. 2015. “Complicating Neoliberalization and Decentralization: The Non-linear Experience of Colombian Water Supply, 1909–2012.” International Journal of Water Resources Development 32 (2): 172–88.
- Gupta, Akhil. 1998. Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- ________. 2012. Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
- ________. 2017. “Changing Forms of Corruption in India.” Modern Asian Studies 51 (6): 1862–90.
- Gupta, Akhil, and Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, eds. 2011. The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Routledge.
- Haldea, Gajendra. 2011. Infrastructure at Crossroads: The Challenges of Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Hall, David, Emanuele Lobina, and Robin de la Motte. 2005. “Public Resistance to Privatisation in Water and Energy.” Development in Practice 15 (3–4): 286–301.
- Hall, Peter, and Michèle Lamont, eds. 2013. Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Harris, Leila M., and Maria Cecilia Roa-García. 2013. “Recent Waves of Water Governance: Constitutional Reform and Resistance to Neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012).” Geoforum 50: 20–30.
- Harriss, John and Andrew Wyatt. 2019. “Business and Politics: The Tamil Nadu Puzzle.” In Business and Politics in India, edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli, and Kanta Murali, 234–59. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Harriss-White, Barbara. 2016. Middle India and Urban-Rural Development: Four Decades of Change. New Delhi: Springer.
- Heller, Patrick, Partha Mukhopadhyay, and Michael Walton. 2019. “Cabal City: Urban Regimes and Accumulation without Development.” In Business and Politics in India, edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Atul Kohli, and Kanta Murali, 151–82. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Herzfeld, Michael. 1992. The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Hoque, Sonia Ferdous. 2012. “Urban Water Sector Reforms in India: Financing Infrastructure Development through Market-Based Financing and Private- Public Partnerships.” Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Research Paper no. LKYSPP: 12-05.
- International Environmental Law Research Centre. 2006. Kerala Irrigation and Water Conservation Act, 2003 (As Amended in 2006). www
.ielrc .org /content /e0303 .pdf. - Ioris, Antonio Augusto Rossotto. 2012. “The Neoliberalization of Water in Lima, Peru.” Political Geography 31 (5): 266–78.
- Islar, Mine, and Chad Boda. 2014. “Political Ecology of Inter-basin Water Transfers in Turkish Water Governance.” Ecology and Society 19 (4): 15.
- Iyer, Lakshmi, and Anandi Mani. 2012. “Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India.” Review of Economics and Statistics 94 (3): 723–39.
- Iyer, Ramaswamy R. 2002. “Inter-state Water Disputes Act 1956: Difficulties and Solutions.” Economic and Political Weekly 37 (28): 2907–10.
- ________. 2003. “Cauvery Water Dispute: A Dialogue between Farmers.” Economic and Political Weekly 38 (24): 2350–52.
- ________, ed. 2009. Water and the Laws in India. New Delhi: Sage.
- ________. 2010. “Resolving River Water Disputes in India: Reflections.” In River Water Sharing: Transboundary Conflict and Cooperation in India, edited by N. Shantha Mohan, N. Sashikumar, and Sailen Routray, 66–80. New Delhi: Routledge.
- ________. 2012. “River Linking Project: A Disquieting Judgment.” Economic and Political Weekly 47 (14): 33–40.
- ________. 2013. “Viewpoint: The Story of a Troubled Relationship.” Water Alternatives 6 (2): 168–76.
- ________, ed. 2015. Living Rivers, Dying Rivers. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Jaffrelot, Christophe, Atul Kohli, and Kanta Murali, eds. 2019. Business and Politics in India. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Jairath, Jasveen. 2008. “Misgovernance of Droughts in India.” In Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy, edited by Vishwa Ballabh, 36–58. New Delhi: Sage.
- Janakarajan, S. 2004. “A Snake in the Grass! Unequal Power, Unequal Contracts and Unexplained Conflicts: Facilitating Negotiations over Water Conflicts in Peri-urban Catchments.” Paper presented at Conference on Market Development of Water & Waste Technologies Through Environmental Economics. www
.irc .nl /negowat. - ________. 2010. “Negotiation through Social Dialogue: Insights from the Cauvery Dispute.” In River Water Sharing: Transboundary Conflict and Cooperation in India, edited by N. Shantha Mohan, N. Sashikumar, and Sailen Routray, 140–55. New Delhi: Routledge.
- Janakarajan, S., John Butterworth, Patrick Moriarty, and Charles Batchelor. 2007. “Strengthened City, Marginalised Peri-urban Villages: Stakeholder Dialogues for Inclusive Urbanisation in Chennai, India.” In Peri-urban Water Conflicts: Supporting Dialogue and Negotiation, edited by John Butterworth, Raphaèle Ducrot, Nicolas Faysse, and S. Janakarajan, 51–74. The Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre.
- Jenkins, Rob, ed. 2004. Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics across India’s States. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Jha, Prem Shankar. 1980. India: A Political Economy of Stagnation. Bombay: Oxford University Press.
- Joy, K. J., Biksham Gupta, Suhas Paranjape, Vinod Goude, and Shruti Vispute. 2008. Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the Making. New Delhi: Routledge.
- Kale, Sunila S. 2014. Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Kapur, Devesh, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta. 2007. Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Kapur, Devesh, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav, eds. 2017. Rethinking Public Institutions in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Kapur, Devesh, and Ravi Ramamurti. 2002. “Privatization in India: The Imperatives and Consequences of Gradualism.” Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, Working Paper no. 142. http://
policydialogue .org /files /publications /Privitization _in _India _Kapur .pdf. - Kemerink, Jeltsje Sanne, Stephen Ngao Munyao, Klaas Schwartz, Rhodante Ahlers, and Pieter van der Zaag. 2016. “Why Infrastructure Still Matters: Unravelling Water Reform Processes in an Uneven Waterscape in Rural Kenya.” International Journal of the Commons 10 (2): 1055–81.
- Kennedy, Loraine. 2004. “The Political Determinants of Reform Packaging: Contrasting Response in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.” In Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics across India’s States, edited by Rob Jenkins, 29–65. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Khagram, Sanjeev. 2004. Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Koonan, Sujith, and Lovleen Bhullar. 2012. “Water Regulatory Authorities in India: The Way Forward?” International Environmental Law Research Centre Policy Paper (2012–04). http://
ielrc .org /content /p1204 .pdf. - Krishnan, L. 2007. “Tamil Nadu Urban Development Fund: Public-Private Partnership in an Infrastructure Finance Intermediary.” In Financing Cities Fiscal Responsibility and Urban Infrastructure in Brazil, China, India, Poland and South Africa, edited by George E. Peterson and Patricia Clarke Annez, 238–62. New Delhi: Sage.
- Kumar, Anil. 2011. “Federalism Yes, What about Decentralisation? Some Aspects of Politics and Governance in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.” Journal of Polity and Society 4 (1): 28–50.
- Kumar, V. Anil. 2009. “Federalism and Decentralisation in India: Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.” Institute for Social and Economic Change (working paper), 1–32.
- Kundu, Amitabh. 2001. “Institutional Innovations for Urban Infrastructural Development: The Indian Scenario.” Development in Practice 11 (2/3): 174–89.
- Laurie, Nina, and Liz Bondi, eds. 2005. Working the Spaces of Neoliberalism: Activism, Professionalisation and Incorporation. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
- Lipsky, Michael. 2010. Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Service. 30th ann. ed. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
- Lobo, Lancy, Mrutuyanjaya Sahu, and Jayesh Shah, eds. 2014. Federalism in India: Towards a Fresh Balance of Power. Jaipur: Rawat.
- Ludden, David E. 1979. “Patronage and Irrigation in Tamil Nadu: A Long Term View.” Indian Economic and Social History Review 16 (3): 347–65.
- ________. 1985. Peasant History in South India. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- ________. 1992. “India’s Development Regime.” In Colonialism and Culture, edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, 247–87. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Madhusoodhanan, C. G., and K. G. Sreeja. 2010. The Mullaperiyar Conflict. Bangalore: National Institute of Advanced Studies, Conflict Resolution Programme.
- Mahalingam, Ashwin, Ganesh A. Devkar, and Satyanarayana N. Kalidindi. 2011. “A Comparative Analysis of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Coordination Agencies in India: What Works and What Doesn’t.” Public Works Management & Policy 16 (4): 341–72.
- Mangat Rai, E. N. 1973. Commitment My Style: Career in the Civil Service. Delhi: Vikas.
- Manor, James. 2001. “Center-State Relations.” In The Success of India’s Democracy, edited by Atul Kholi, 78–102. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- ________. 2004. “User Committees: A Potentially Damaging Second Wave of Decentralisation?” European Journal of Development Research 16 (1): 192–213.
- ________. 2016. “India’s States: The Struggle to Govern.” Studies in Indian Politics 4 (1): 8–21.
- McDonald, David A., and Greg Ruiters, eds. 2004. The Age of Commodity: Water Privatization in Southern Africa. London: Earthscan.
- McDonald, Robert I., Katherine Weber, Julie Padowski, Martina Florke, Christof Schneider, Pamela A. Green, Thomas Gleeson, Stephanie Eckman, Bernhard Lehner, Deborah Balk, Timothy Boucher, Gunther Grill, Mark Montgomery. 2014. “Water on an Urban Planet: Urbanization and the Reach of Urban Water Infrastructure.” Global Environmental Change 27: 96–105.
- McKenzie, David, and Isha Ray. 2009. “Urban Water Supply in India: Status, Reform Options and Possible Lessons.” Water Policy 11 (4): 442–60.
- Mehta, Lyla. 2005. The Politics and Poetics of Water: Naturalising Scarcity in Western India. New Delhi: Orient Longman.
- Min, Brian. 2015. Power and the Vote: Elections and Electricity in the Developing World. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Misra, Bankey Bihari. 1977. The Bureaucracy in India: An Historical Analysis of Development up to 1947. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Mitchell, Timothy. 2002. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-politics, Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Moench, Marcus, Elisabeth Caspari, and Ajaya Dixit, eds. 1999. Rethinking the Mosaic: Investigations into Local Water Management. Kathmandu: Nepal Water Conservation Foundation.
- Mohan, N. Shanta, Sailen Routray, and N. Sashikumar. 2010. River Water Sharing: Transboundary Conflict and Cooperation in India. New Delhi: Routledge.
- Mohanakrishnan, A. 2016a. An Autobiography of Prof A. Mohanakrishnan. Part 1. Chennai: Irrigation Management Training Institute.
- ________. 2016b. An Autobiography of Prof A. Mohanakrishnan. Part 2. Chennai: Irrigation Management Training Institute.
- Mohanty, B. B., ed. 2016. Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition: India in the Global Debate. New York: Routledge.
- Mohanty, Prasanna K. 2016. Financing Cities in India: Municipal Reforms, Fiscal Accountability and Urban Infrastructure. New Delhi: Sage.
- Mollinga, Peter P. 2003. On the Waterfront: Water Distribution, Technology and Agrarian Change in a South Indian Canal Irrigation System. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
- Mooij, Jos, ed. 2005. The Politics of Economic Reforms in India. New Delhi: Sage.
- Moore, Scott M. 2018. Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution- Building in Shared River Basins. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Morgan, Bronwen. 2011. Water on Tap: Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Mosse, David. 1999. “Colonial and Contemporary Ideologies of ‘Community Management’: The Case of Tank Irrigation Development in South India.” Modern Asian Studies 33 (2): 303–38.
- ________. 2003. The Rule of Water: Statecraft, Ecology, and Collective Action in South India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Nagaraj, R. 2014. “Public Sector Employment: What Has Changed?” Conference on Political Economy of Contemporary India, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai 20: 1–17.
- ________. 2015 “Can the Public Sector Revive the Economy? Review of the Evidence and a Policy Suggestion.” Economic and Political Weekly 50 (5): 41–46.
- Nariman, Fali S., 2009. “Inter-state Water Disputes: A Nightmare!” In Water and the Laws in India, edited by Ramaswamy R. Iyer, 32–57. New Delhi: Sage.
- Nayar, P. K. B. 1969. Leadership Bureaucracy and Planning in India: A Sociological Study. New Delhi: Associated Publishing House.
- North, Douglass. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Packialakshmi, S. 2012. “A Study on Groundwater and Its Techno-socioeconomic Implications.” PhD dissertation, Department of Civil Engineering, Anna University.
- Packialakshmi, Shanmugam, N. K. Ambujam, and Prakash Nelliyat. 2011. “Groundwater Market and Its Implications on Water Resources and Agriculture in the Southern Peri-urban Interface, Chennai, India.” Journal of Environmental Development Sustainability 13 (2): 423–38.
- Padhiari, Hemant Kumar, and Vishwa Ballabh. 2008. “Inter-state Water Disputes and the Governance Challenge.” In Governance of Water: Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy, edited by Vishwa Ballabh, 174–94. New Delhi: Sage.
- Pandian, Anand. 2003. “Ode to an Engineer.” In Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Stories, edited by Amita Baviskar, 12–27. New Delhi: Penguin Books.
- Pani, Narendar, 2010. “Boundaries of Transboundary Water Sharing.” In River Water Sharing: Transboundary Conflict and Cooperation in India, edited by N. Shantha Mohan, Sailen Routray, and N. Sashikumar, 47–65. New Delhi: Routledge.
- Potter, David C. 1996. India’s Political Administrators: From ICS to IAS. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Powell, Walter W., and Paul J. DiMaggio, eds. 1991. The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. Vol. 17, 1–38. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Prabhu, Nagesh. 2017. Reflective Shadows: Political Economy of the World Bank Lending to India. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Prakash, Gyan. 1999. Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Prasad, Awadesh. 1976. A Portrait of Bureaucracy in India. Patna: Associated Book Agency.
- Prasad, G. K. 1974. Bureaucracy in India: A Sociological Study. New Delhi: Sterling.
- Punjabi, Bharat, and Craig A. Johnson. 2018. “The Politics of Rural-Urban Water Conflict in India: Untapping the Power of Institutional Reform.” World Development 120: 182–92.
- Rafath, Mohammed Ali. 2012. Bureaucracy and Politics: Growth of Service Jurisprudence in All India Services. Jaipur: Rawat.
- Raina, Rajeswari S. 2015. “Technological and Institutional Change: India’s Development Trajectory in an Innovation Systems Framework.” In Emerging Economies: Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation, edited by Parthasarathi Shome and Pooja Sharma, 329–51. New Delhi: Springer.
- Rajagopal, A., and S. Janakarajan. 2006. “State in Perplexity: The Politics of Water Rights and Irrigation System Turnover in Tamil Nadu.” Water Nepal 12 (1/2): 115–42.
- Rajendran, S., and N. Rajasekaran. 2011. “Political Economy and Local Area Development Scheme in Tamil Nadu.” International Journal of Research in Commerce, Economics and Management 1 (6): 32–35.
- Rakendran, S., and S. Ramaswamy. 2017. “Court Restrains Water Sale from Tamirabarani in Tamil Nadu.” Economic & Political Weekly 52 (9).
- Ramadevi, R., and V. Balaraju Nikku. 2008. “Telugu Ganga Project: Water Rights and Conflicts.” In Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the Making, edited by K. J. Joy, Suhas Paranjape, Shruti Vispute, Biksham Gujja, and Vinod Goud, 383–87. New Delhi: Routledge.
- Richards, Alan, and Nirvikar Singh. 2002. “Inter-state Water Disputes in India: Institutions and Policies.” International Journal of Water Resources Development 18 (4): 611–25.
- Rudolph, Lloyd I., and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. 1987. In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- ________. 2001. “Iconisation of Chandrababu: Sharing Sovereignty in India’s Federal Market Economy.” Economic and Political Weekly 36 (18): 1541–52.
- Ruet, Joël, Marie Gambiez, and Emilie Lacour. 2007. “Private Appropriation of Resource: Impact of Peri-urban Farmers Selling Water to Chennai Metropolitan Water Board.” Cities 24 (2): 110–21.
- Saldhana, Leo F., and Bhargavi S. Rao. 2015. “Karnataka: Cauvery in Death Throes.” In Living Rivers, Dying Rivers, edited by Ramaswamy R. Iyer, 293–313. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Salman, Salman M. A. 2002. “Inter-state Water Disputes in India: An Analysis of the Settlement Process.” Water Policy 4 (3): 223–37.
- Sampathkumar, T. Johnson. 2005. “Telugu Ganga Project: An Act of Inter-state Co-operation.” Indian Journal of Political Science 66 (4): 851–72.
- Sangita, S. N. 2014. “Interface of Local and Higher Governments: Nation Building and Inclusive Development in India.” In Federalism in India: Towards a Fresh Balance of Power, edited by Lancy Lobo, Mrutuyanjaya Sahu, and Jayesh Shah, 62–95. Jaipur: Rawat.
- Saraldevi, J. 2013. “People’s Attitudes towards Paying for Water and Sanitation.” PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Science and Humanities, Anna University Chennai.
- Saravanan, V., and P. Appasamy. 1999. “Historical Perspectives on Conflicts over Domestic and Industrial Supply in the Bhavani and Noyyal Basins, Tamil Nadu.” In Rethinking the Mosaic Investigations into Local Water Management, edited by Marcus Moench, Elisabeth Caspari, and Ajaya Dixit, 161–90. Kathmandu: Nepal Water Conservation Foundation.
- Sassen, Saskia. 2001. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Schmidt, Vivien. 2008. “Discursive Institutionalism: The Explanatory Power of Ideas and Discourse.” Annual Review of Political Science 11 (1): 303–26.
- Schnitzler, Antina von. 2008. “Citizenship Prepaid: Water, Calculability, and Techno-politics in South Africa.” Journal of Southern African Studies 34 (4): 899–917.
- Settar, S. 2010. “Kaveri in Its Historical Setting.” In River Water Sharing: Transboundary Conflict and Cooperation in India, edited by N. Shantha Mohan, Sailen Routray, N. Sashikumar, 99–107. London: Routledge.
- Shah, Mihir. 2013. “Water: Towards a Paradigm Shift in the Twelfth Plan.” Economic and Political Weekly 48 (3): 40–52.
- ________. 2016. A 21st Century Institutional Architecture for India’s Water Reforms. Report submitted by the Committee on Restructuring the CWC and CGWB. http://
cgwb .gov .in /INTRA -CGWB /Circulars /Report _on _Restructuring _CWC _CGWB .pdf. - ________. 2018. “Resistance to Reforms in Water Governance.” Economic & Political Weekly 53 (6): 60–63.
- Shah, Mihir, and Himanshu Kulkarni. 2015. “Urban Water Systems in India: Typologies and Hypotheses.” Economic & Political Weekly 50 (30): 57–69.
- Shah, Mihir, and P. S. Vijayshankar, eds. 2016. Water: Growing Understanding, Emerging Perspectives. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.
- Shah, R. B. 1994. “Inter-state River Water Disputes: A Historical Review.” International Journal of Water Resources Development 10 (2): 175–89.
- Shah, Tushaar. 2005. “The New Institutional Economics of India’s Water Policy.” Presentation made at International Workshop on African Water Laws: Plural Legislative Frameworks for Rural Water Management in Africa.
- Sharma, Chanchal Kumar, and Wilfried Swenden. 2017. “Continuity and Change in Contemporary Indian Federalism.” India Review 16 (1): 1–13.
- Shiva, Vandana. 2016. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit. New York: Penguin Random House.
- Singh, Balmiki Prasad. 2017. The Twenty-First Century: Geopolitics, Democracy and Peace. New York: Routledge.
- Singh, Prerna. 2016. How Solidarity Works for Welfare Subnationalism and Social Development in India. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Singh, Satyajit. 2002. Taming the Waters: The Political Economy of Large Dams in India. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ________. 2007. “Water and Local Governments: Institutional Design, Politics & Implementation.” In Decentralization: Institutions and Politics in Rural India, edited by Satyajit Singh and Pradeep K. Sharma. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- ________. 2016. The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization and Environment. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Singh, Satyajit, and Pradeep K. Sharma, eds. 2007. Decentralization: Institutions and Politics in Rural India. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Sinha, Aseema. 2005. The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- ________. 2011. “An Institutional Perspective on the Post-liberalization State in India.” In The State in India After Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Akhil Gupta and K. Sivaramakrishnan, 49–68. New York: Routledge.
- Srivastava, I. C., and B. D. Joshi, eds. 2012. Bureaucracy in Action. Jaipur: Rawat.
- Steinmo, Sven. 2008. “Historical Institutionalism.” In Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences: A Pluralist Perspective, edited by Donatella Della Porta and Michael Keating, 118–39. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Stoddart, Brian. 2011. Land, Water, Language and Politics in Andhra: Regional Evolution in India Since 1850. New Delhi: Routledge.
- Suresh, S. 2021. “Intersectoral Competition for Water Between Users and Uses in Tamil Nadu-India.” Frontiers in Earth and Science 9 (September): 1–13. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.663198.
- Swain, Ashok. 1998. “Fight for the Last Drop: Inter-state River Disputes in India.” Contemporary South Asia 2 (7): 167–80.
- Swenden, Wilfried, and Rekha Saxena. 2017. “Rethinking Central Planning: A Federal Critique of the Planning Commission.” India Review 16 (1): 42–65.
- Swyngedouw, Erik. 2004. Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Tarlo, Emma. 2003. Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Thateyus, A. J., Delphin Prema Dhanaseeli, and P. Vanitha. 2013. “Inter-state Dispute over Water and Safety in India: The Mullaperiyar Dam, a Historical Perspective.” American Journal of Water Resources 1 (2): 10–19.
- Tiwari, Piyush, and Ranesh Nair. 2011. “Transforming Water Utilities.” In India Infrastructure Report, edited by Infrastructure Development Finance Company, 240–59. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Upadhyay, Videh. 2002. “Water Management and Village Groups: Role of Law.” Economic and Political Weekly (37) 49: 4907–12.
- ________. 2009. “The Ownership of Water in Indian Laws.” In Water and the Laws in India, edited by Ramaswamy R. Iyer, 134–48. New Delhi: Sage.
- Urs, Kshithij, and Richard Whittell. 2009. Resisting Reform?: Water Profits and Democracy. New Delhi: Sage.
- Vaddiraju, Anil Kumar. 2014. “Whither Decentralization in India?: The Interesting Story of a Nobody’s Child.” In Federalism in India: Towards a Fresh Balance of Power, edited by Lancy Lobo, Mrutuyanjaya Sahu, and Jayesh Shah, 96–111. Jaipur: Rawat.
- Vaidyanathan, Anu. 1994. “Performance of Indian Agriculture Since Independence.” In Agrarian Questions, edited by Kaushik Basu, 18–74. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Vaidyanathan, A., and Bharath Jairaj. 2009. “Legal Aspects of Water Resource Management.” In Water and the Laws in India, edited by Ramaswamy Iyer, 3–16. New Delhi: Sage.
- Vaishnav, Milan, and Saksham Khosla. 2016. “The Indian Administrative Service Meets Big Data.” New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. https://
carnegieendowment .org /2016 /09 /01 /indian -administrative -service -meets -big -data -pub -64457. - Vasavi, A. R. 1999. Harbingers of Rain: Land and Life in South India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Venkatachalam, Pritha. 2005. Innovative Approaches to Municipal Infrastructure Financing: A Case Study on Tamil Nadu. Working paper from Development Studies Institute London School of Economics and Political Science Working Paper Series.
- Wade, Robert. 1982. “The System of Administrative and Political Corruption: Canal Irrigation in South India.” Journal of Development Studies 18 (3): 287–328.
- Warghade, Sachin, and Subodh Wagle. 2011. “Water Sector Reforms: Implications on Empowerment and Equity.” In India Infrastructure Report Water: Policy and Performance for Sustainable Development, edited by Infrastructure Development Finance Company, 325–36. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- Washbrook, D. A. 1976. The Emergence of Provincial Politics: The Madras Presidency. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Wedeen, Lisa. 2002. “Conceptualizing Culture: Possibilities for Political Science.” American Political Science Review 96 (4): 713–28.
- Yates, Julian S., and Leila M. Harris. 2018. “Hybrid Regulatory Landscapes: The Human Right to Water, Variegated Neoliberal Water Governance, and Policy Transfer in Cape Town, South Africa, and Accra, Ghana.” World Development 110: 75–87.