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The Irrigation Works of India

1905

The record of the great Irrigation Works of India and of the benefits which they confer on the people cannot but tend to display the true beneficence of British rule in the great continent which is so important a portion of the Empire. [...] Map of the Irrigation Works and Rainfall of India. Map of the Irrigation Canals in the Punjab Map of the Orissa Canals. Map of the Irrigation Canals in the United Provinces Map of the Sone Canals Malade.vi Tank Project The Sone Weir. Under-sluice Gates of the Chenab Weir. Escape on the Arrah Canal Chitpore Lock in Calcutta. FACING. [...] The substrata consist usually of alternate layers of sand and clay : the surface shows every variety of soil from the blown sands of the western deserts to the rich loam of the Ganges valley and of deltas on the eastern coast. [...] The annual overflow of the floods has raised the lands gradually and has raised those in the vicinity of the river more than those lying at a distance from it because the silt in the waters has been primarily deposited near the bank of the river where the velocity of the stream is first checked. [...] Some of the inundation canals of the Punjab lie in the khadir of the higher reaches of the Sutlej and the Jhelum but the majority of them as shown in the Plate (page 6) are in the area bordering on the confluence of the rivers with the Indus.
agriculture environment
Pages
381
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145465
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xx Robert Buckley view
Chapter I. General and Descriptive
1-24 Robert Buckley view
Chapter II. Inundation Canals
25-29 Robert Buckley view
Chapter III. Silt
30-49 Robert Buckley view
Chapter IV. Flow-Off from Catchment Areas Evaporation Absorption
50-70 Robert Buckley view
Chapter V. Storage Works Reservoirs Tanks
71-iv Robert Buckley view
Chapter VI. Perennial Canals in Deltaic Tracts Embankments
97-106 Robert Buckley view
Chapter VII. General Nature of Head-Works
107-113 Robert Buckley view
Chapter VIII. Head-Works in Rock and Boulders
114-137 Robert Buckley view
Chapter IX. Head-Works in Clay and Coarse Sand
138-156 Robert Buckley view
Chapter X. Head-Works in Fine Sand and Sandy Mud
157-179 Robert Buckley view
Chapter XI. Gates of Under-Sluices and Waste Weirs. Movable Dams
180-201 Robert Buckley view
Chapter XII. Regulators Head-Sluices Escapes Canal Falls Weirs Bridges
202-227 Robert Buckley view
Chapter XIII. Cross Drainage Works Super-Passages Aqueducts
228-iii Robert Buckley view
Chapter XIV. Navigation Locks
251-269 Robert Buckley view
Chapter XV. Duty of Water
270-285 Robert Buckley view
Chapter XVI. The Alignment of Canals and Distributaries. Design of Channels
286-301 Robert Buckley view
Chapter XVII. Revenue and Administration
302-307 Robert Buckley view
Chapter XVIII. Cost of Irrigation Works and the Financial and Agricultural Results Obtained from them
308-322 Robert Buckley view
Index
323-335 Robert Buckley view

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