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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c122130 _d122130
028			_a: Raghav Books Private Limited _b: 2/25, First Floor Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New Delhi _c: 2659 _d: 8/5/2026
082			_a363.34 SCO
100			_a Scott, James C.
245			_aIn Praise of Floods _b: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings. _c/ James C. Scott,
260			_a, London _b: Yale University Press _c, 2025.
300			_axxi, 220p. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aRivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change and shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood-pulse—the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain—that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood-pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture.
650			_aFlood
650			_aLife of Brings
650			_aRiver
700			_aJames C Scott
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