Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of The Crafts and Capitalism: Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India and coauthor of The Economic History of Colonialism and Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy.

Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xv
List of Illustrations xvii
1 Why Climate Matters 1
2 Water and Famine 25
3 Water and Equality 45
4 Becoming a Public Good 65
5 Water in the Cities 87
6 Water Stress 113
7 Seasonality 137
8 Monsoon Economies 167
Notes 177
Selected Readings 203
Index 207