Canal Irrigation in British India
Subtitle: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780521526630
Subjects: Rural communities; History: World; History; History - General History; ASIA; India; Asia - General; Renaissance; History / Asia; History / India; History-Renaissance
First sentence: Described recently by one economic historian as among the 'greatest monuments to British rule', the harnessing of the waters of India's great rivers for irrigation purposes would appear one of the most positive ways in which the colonial regime contributed to Indian welfare.