CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

List of Maps

Maps

A Note on Names and Terminology

ONE

The Shape of Modern Asia

TWO

Water and Empire

THREE

This Parched Land

FOUR

The Aqueous Atmosphere

FIVE

The Struggle for Water

SIX

Water and Freedom

SEVEN

Rivers Divided, Rivers Dammed

EIGHT

The Ocean and the Underground

NINE

Stormy Horizons

EPILOGUE

History and Memory at the Water’s Edge

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Sunil Amrith

Archives and Special Collections

Notes

Index