This paper reviews the literature on the characteristics of the post-Independence water resources policy process in India, with an emphasis on the recent period when critiques of existing and demands for new or adapted governance structures have become increasingly forceful. It will be shown...

This paper uses the growing volume of scholarly work on "water and politics" to conceptually and methodologically frame an approach to the social analysis of water resources management. This paper sets out the thrust and focus of such a "political sociology of water resources management". The...