Colonial Canal Networks and the Making of Urban Dehradun (1820–1950) Focus Study how British canal engineering shaped:
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Colonial urbanism; Dehradun; canal irrigation; British India; Doon Valley; hydraulic infrastructure; spatial history; agrarian transformation; Public Works Department; urban morphology.Abstract
Between 1820 and 1950, British colonial engineers fundamentally transformed Dehradun froma sparsely settled trans-Himalayan tract into a garrison town, administrative hill-station, andplanned agricultural hinterland. This paper examines how the construction, expansion, and governance of canal networks
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Stone, I. (1984). Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. Cambridge University Press.
Whitcombe, E. (1972). Agrarian Conditions in Northern India, Vol. I: The United Provinces under British Rule, 1860–1900. University of California Press.
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2020-08-20
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Dr.Nilaya Kumar Mishra (PhD). (2020). Colonial Canal Networks and the Making of Urban Dehradun (1820–1950) Focus Study how British canal engineering shaped: . Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications (JoCAAA), 28(6), 192–201. Retrieved from https://www.eudoxuspress.com/index.php/pub/article/view/5560
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