Dams and DevelopmentBig dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century. Of late they have become a lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and social consequencesespecially for the populations that are displaced as their homelands are flooded. In this book, Sanjeev Khagram