Modules for modernisation: Colonial irrigation in india and the technological dimension of agrarian change

The Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 805-844

  Bolding, Alex ^a   Mollinga, Peter P ^a   Straaten, Kees Van ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL MODERNISATION; BLOCK SYSTEM; COLONIAL PERIOD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; IRRIGATION; STATE ROLE; WATER DISTRIBUTION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

INDIA;

EID: 0029483866     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220389508422392     Document Type: Article

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