Before revision: During the British colonial rule, for example, the 19th century engineer Arthur Cotton proposed the plan to interlink major Indian rivers in order to hasten import and export of goods from its colony in South Asia, as well as to address water shortages and droughts in southeastern India, now Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.Elizabeth Hope and William Digby, Post independence In the 1970s, Dr. K.L.
After revision: indian_subcontinent,During the British colonial rule, for example, the 19th century engineer Arthur Cotton proposed the plan to interlink major Indian rivers in order to hasten import and export of goods from its colony in South Asia, as well as to address water shortages and droughts in southeastern India, now Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.Elizabeth Hope and William Digby, Post independence In the 1970s, Dr. K.L.