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Article: Dams and development: the Narmada story.(dams on the River Narmada in India may damage the ecosystem)
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- Manavi Newsletter
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- September 22, 2002
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The controversy over large dams on the River Narmada in western India has come to symbolize the struggle for a just and equitable society in India. From its inception, the Indian state was confronted by two different visions of reconstruction; the Gandhian project of reviving the village economy as the basis of development, and the Nehruvian plan of prosperity through rapid industrialization. Dam building in post-independent India, under the predominant Nehruvian developmental agenda, became a major symbol of modernization, scientific progress and a source of national pride. 'Temples of modern India' is how Nehru described them.
In the case of the Narmada, the ...