River Disputes, Development, Imperialism: A New Analysis

This book gives evidence of truly formidable scholarship in a multiplicity of areas and disciplines, an acute and sophisticated mind, and a striking originality of approach; and in terms of scope and coverage it is monumental and encyclopaedic. However, the author’s novel thesis, though powerfully argued, ultimately left this reviewer unpersuaded. The Krishna River disputes, the stated subject of the book, is reached only on p. 95. The first 94 pages are devoted to the construction of an analytical framework for the examination of that subject. Section II (pp. 95 – 283) certainly sets forth in detail the history of the disputes over Krishna waters, the elements of the disputes, the arguments put forward by the disputing parties, the reasoning