The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya
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Edition
1s ed.
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ISBN
8178241357, 9788178241357
Length
xiii+271p., Plates; Figures; Tables; Glossary; Appendix; References; Index; 23cm.
Subjects
This book advances scholarly ways of thinking about community-based systems of resource management.In the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed Kuhl systems--intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels--for rice and wheat farming. Over the years, earthquakes and floods have repeatedly destroyed these Kuhls. More recently, increasing non-farm employment has drawn labor ...
