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Politics of Water Contestation in the Mumbai-Thane Region of India Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 4-14-2015 12:00 AM Claims of the City? Rights of the Countryside? Politics of Water Contestation in the Mumbai-Thane Region of India Bharat Khushal Punjabi The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr. Belinda Dodson The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Geography A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Doctor of Philosophy © Bharat Khushal Punjabi 2015 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Asian Studies Commons, Human Geography Commons, and the Nature and Society Relations Commons Recommended Citation Punjabi, Bharat Khushal, "Claims of the City? Rights of the Countryside? Politics of Water Contestation in the Mumbai-Thane Region of India" (2015). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 2853. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2853 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Claims of the City? Rights of the Countryside? Politics of Water Contestation in the Mumbai-Thane Region of India Integrated-Article Thesis By Bharat Punjabi Graduate Program in Geography A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada © Bharat K. Punjabi 2015 !i Abstract This dissertation comprises three papers that focus on the interplay of formal and informal institutional processes in the sharing of water between the Mumbai Metropolitan region and an agricultural area to its north and east in Thane district. The first paper focuses on the interests and motivations that influence the everyday practices of the canal bureaucracy in the Surya project in Dahanu. This paper is largely a critique of the application of rational choice theory to analyzing bureaucratic corruption in a literature in development studies that was pioneered by Robert Wade. Using an ethnographic narrative style, the paper seeks to provide an account of bureaucratic corruption by focusing on tensions within the local Irrigation Department over bribes and transfers. The poor maintenance of the canal system by engineers in Dahanu and the consequent wastage of water are highlighted as providing a rationale and justification for diversion of water to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The second paper traces the historical evolution of institutional practices and local water policy in the Tansa- Vaitarna (T-V) water district, a major source of water for Greater Mumbai and others towns in the Mumbai metropolitan region. It analyzes the failure of collective action in the water district over local water needs and identifies prior appropriation and the fragmentation of metropolitan water governance as the two major factors that are constraints in meeting the water needs of the rural population in the T-V water district. The third paper focuses on the experiences of farmers with water scarcity and dispossession from land on a canal system in two villages in Dahanu. The paper uses survey and interview data from interviews with farmers to understand how water !ii scarcity is manufactured on the canal minor system and discourses of efficiency, abundance and waste are deployed by wealthy commercial farmers and local elites to deprive small and marginal tribal farmers from water. Key Words Water Politics; Urban Geography; Mumbai; Canal Irrigation; Political Ecology; Institutions; Peri-Urban; Adivasi; Thane District; Dahanu; Vasai-Virar; Konkan; Maharashtra; India. !iii Acknowledgements I wish to thank Research Western and IDRC for funding my doctoral field research in India. I also wish to acknowledge the formal affiliation provided by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences during my fieldwork in Dahanu and Mumbai that provided me with crucial library access and also provided access to the Institute`s grassroots contacts in both places. My greatest debt is to Brian Lobo and the Kashtakari Sanghatana. Brian shared a great deal of his knowledge as a lawyer and activist about the legal dimensions of water and land issues in Dahanu and Thane district. Without Brian`s help and the co-operation extended by the village communities in the horticultural belt in Dahanu, this research would have been impossible to carry out. I also wish to extend my appreciation of the co-operation extended by officials of the Irrigation Department in Dahanu and Thane district and to the engineers who wished to stay anonymous during my field research. Local rural politicians and farmers in Dahanu, Wada and Shahpur gave me extensive interviews and spared their valuable time for my questions. The planners in the Mumbai Metropolitan Authority, engineers of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation and civil servants with the BMC also provided guidance and shared data. SOPPECOM in Pune also provided me with useful reports, information on irrigation in the Konkan and Western Ghats. Both KJ Joy and Seema Kulkarni have an unmatched knowledge of water issues in Maharashtra and India. !iv I also thank Belinda Dodson at the Department of Geography, Western University for the help, advice and guidance she has extended to me during the course of supervising the dissertation. She has been extraordinarily generous with her time and provided ideas throughout the drafting of the dissertation. Belinda kept in touch during fieldwork and helped me in addressing several dilemmas any graduate student encounters during fieldwork in an international context. She has shared the water literature from South Asia and other contexts throughout the drafting of the dissertation. Belinda also gave me a lot of freedom to give shape to my own ideas while drafting this dissertation. Tony Weis and Jamie Baxter shared literature and ideas throughout my stay at Western. Besides being a co- applicant to a successful grant application from Western International, Jamie also helped me during the early stages of my program at Western and extended a lot of help during my fieldwork in India in 2006 and 2008. Jamie`s seminar on qualitative methods proved to be invaluable during fieldwork and will remain an enduring model for ensuring rigour in qualitative research. Tony`s ideas on agrarian change and ecological issues provided very valuable perspective. From time to time, he forwarded literature on irrigation and agrarian change in India which has been incorporated into the dissertation. Though they were not on my committee, Chris Smart and Micha Pazner provided all kinds of support during my PhD at Western. Chris shared ideas and literature on water. Micha and Nancy opened their home to me and if it was not for their support, affection and care in London, Ontario, I wouldn`t have come this far. I have made many other friends at Western and London, ON who are far too numerous to !v name. My friends, Nadine Quehl, Andrea Cole, Ellena Andoniou and James Cowan were a great source of help and support through very difficult and challenging times. The University of Toronto became a home as I drafted the final parts of this thesis. I presented my work at the Cities Centre and the Munk School on three occasions. I thank Eric Miller and Richard Stren for providing me affiliation with Cities Centre. The feedback and advice provided by Richard Stren, Larry Bourne, Alan Walks, Richard White, Alana Boland, Frank Cunningham and Andre Sorensen during seminars were helpful. Richard Stren`s understanding of development issues in the context of global urbanization is unmatched and he shared his ideas on the subject generously. His erudition and humility will always remain a source of inspiration. The Global Cities Institute and the Munk School at the University of Toronto provided me with affiliation in the last months of drafting the dissertation. I am grateful to Professors Patricia McCarney and Enid Slack for the space and the intellectual environment that helped me give the finishing touches to the draft. Arthur Rubinoff has provided me great insights and knowledge from the history and politics of coastal western India. His questions provoked me to revisit some of my historical data. I also presented this work at the American Association of Geographers meetings and learned a lot from feedback from colleagues at that venue. I also treated my undergraduate students in two seminar courses on water I taught at Western University’s Geography Department and Huron University College to some of the field data on water politics in India. Their very interesting queries helped !vi me ask fresh questions about my data. Teaching at Western and Huron was an enriching experience and the conversations in the undergraduate seminars proved very helpful. Byron Mordofsky at the University of Toronto`s Cartography and GIS Lab helped me produce excellent maps on the canal system and dams in the Mumbai-Thane area for the dissertation. Dawn Gosney and Sheraz Khan helped me develop some of the maps on the Tansa-Vaitarna water district. Both Weldon (Western) and Robarts libraries helped me with access to interlibrary loans. Robarts has a great collection in South Asian and Indian social science books, without such rich access, I wouldn`t have been able to complete this thesis to my satisfaction. The University of Chicago`s Crerar Library helped me with access to archival data on the Mumbai water works. The Modak Water Supply reports proved crucial in my understanding of the evolution of the governance framework around water in Mumbai. Others who kept in touch, shared ideas, responded to my questions and provided valuable advice and guidance are Tirthankar Roy, Ben Crow, Karen Bakker, Stuart Corbridge, Jairus Banaji, M H Suryanarayana, Malcolm Blincow, Ravi Rajan, Minoti Kaul, Parthasarathi Mondal, A.
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