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Rivers have always evoked emotions, mainly because they were instrumental in giving rise to life and living, carrying with them, often in folded waves, the narratives of human civilizations. South Asian rivers, small or big, were no exception.
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Ibid.
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Ibid, pp. xi–xii.
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Naomi Oreskes, “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change: How Do We Know We’re Not Wrong?” in Joseph F.C. Dimento and Pamela Doughman, eds., Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (Cambridge, MA, 2007), p. 93.
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Ibid.
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Will Steffen, “Humans Creating New ‘Geological Age,” The Age, 31 March 2008. Available at http://www.Theage.com.au/news/environment/humans-creating-a-new-geological-age/2008/03/31/1206850741327.html. Accessed on December 23, 2016.Cited from Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Critical Inquiry, Volume 35, Winter 2009, p. 207. See also Paul J. Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer, “The Anthropocene,” IGBP [International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme] Newsletter, 41, 2000, p. 17.
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Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (New York: International Publishers, 1971).
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Ibid.
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Esther Solomon, Indian Dialectics: Methods of Philosophical Discussion, Volume II (Ahmedabad: Gujarat Vidya Sabha, 1978), 520. See also, Imtiaz Ahmed, “Diversity in dialectics: a methodological quest for en-gendering security.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Gender, Conflict and Security: Perspectives from South Asia, organized by South Asian University and UN Women in New Delhi, India, 23–24 April, 2015.
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Ahmed, I. (2018). Introduction. In: Ahmed, I. (eds) South Asian Rivers. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67374-5_1
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