title: Dams and Dynasty, and the Colonial Transformation of Balinese Irrigation Management.
abstract: This article takes issue with Stephen Lansing's bottom-up model of Balinese irrigation management. Based on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the former south Balinese kingdom of Mengwi, it is argued that in pre-colonial days large scale irrigation depended largely on dynastic involvement. During the colonial period (1906-1942) the Dutch took over the role of regional irrigation management while they strengthened the autonomy of local irrigation associations.
authors.affiliation: Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), Leiden, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Henk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schulte Nordholt