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Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy. By I. Stone. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1984.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

I. D. Derbyshire
Affiliation:
Jesus College, Cambridge

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