Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.35
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.35
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c20.35
The practice of watering and irrigation is not peculiar to the husbandry of India, but it has probably been carried there to a greater extent, and more laborious ingenuity displayed in it than in any other country. The vast and numerous tanks, reservoirs, and artificial lakes as well as dams of solid masonry in rivers which they constructed for the purpose of fertilising their fields, show the extreme solicitude which they had to secure this object.¹⁵