Reservoir Gods
How the Cauvery was dammed, through the eyes of the project’s foremost champion, M. Visvesvaraya—and his fiercest critics.
Aparajith Ramnath is a historian of science, technology and business, and teaches at Ahmedabad University. He is the author of The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900-47 (Delhi: OUP, 2017). He is working on a book on Sir M. Visvesvaraya, to be published by Penguin Random House India.