Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala2015-12-101965-0175http://hdl.handle.net/1885/69587This paper traces the gendered changes in agrarian livelihoods in the lower Damodar valley of eastern India and connects these changes to the large dam project of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). The DVC, established in 1948, was one of the earliestThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike license which permits any non commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcodeKeywords: agrarian reform; agricultural economics; gender relations; water management; Damodar Valley; India; West Bengal Canal irrigation; Damodar Valley Corporation; Floods; Gender impacts; India; Large dams; West Bengal20122016-02-24