The Sacred Waters ’Of’ Varanasi: The Colonial Draining and Heritage Ecology

This book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely deluged metropolitan cities and other parts of India in recent years.

Mahesh Gogate is affiliated researcher at Kyoto University, Japan and studying the dynamic and fluid topography of Varanasi city, India. Before academia, he worked in the software the industry, and spent many years working as a research associate.