Preface / by Monica Juneja -- Introduction: The materiality of liquescence / Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati -- The shape of Babur's Lake : architecture and water in the central Indian frontier / Tamara I. Sears -- Water is a limited commodity : ecological aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614 / Sugata Ray -- Lakes within lake-palaces : a material history of pleasure in 18th-century India / Dipti Khera -- Photos of the ocean : pearl fisheries, British colonialism and the Gulf of Manaar / Natasha Eaton -- When times were strange : water, geology and drawing in the religious imagination at Girar, 1855 / Venugopal Maddipati -- From nallah to nadi, sewer to stream : urban waterscape research in India and the United States / James L. Wescoat Jr. -- Water : its meanings and powers in the Indian Sufi tradition / Catherine B. Asher -- Developmental aesthetics : modernism's ocular economies and laconic discontents in the era of Nehruvian technocracy / Atreyee Gupta -- A critical look into the existing practice of water governance in cities : the case of Chandernagore / Gopa Samanta and Malay Ganguli -- Making water media in 21st-century South Asia / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- The religious and affective actualities of the Yamuna : conversations with Pandit Premchand Sharma, Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi / Padma D. Maitland -- From Bundi to Delhi : water harnessing systems in semiarid regions / Asim Waqif -- You always step into the same river! / Atul Bhalla -- Cosmographia universalis : environmental crisis and the water aesthetics of global South Asia / Partha Mitter.