NATS 1840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Japan Standard Time, Unintended Consequences, Silt
9 Nov 2017
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Nats 1840 lecture 10 colonialism and agrarian water management. Flood management for agricultural and damage prevention. Floods in the orissa delta in colonial india. Flood control embankments, flooding, cheap and easy to build. Colonel arthur cotton, canals to control the river, irrigate, commerce. If the rivers are overflowing and damaging the farm land you build a canal. Every time you make a branch some of the water moves away. You need to retain some water for agriculture purposes but you an drain some off by making canals (highway of water) (don"t build walls just build extra canals) They just had to figure out how to manage it. Economic concerns, indian empire transferred to crown ownership (1858), private capital was investing in transport networks. When the government of india gave ownership to the government of england, Canals better than railways, equal investment, investment guarantees. India was building a lot of railways.
