Garden of fools

By:

Hutchison, Robert

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi Palimosest 2012Description: 432 pISBN:

9788192226613

Subject(s):

Fiction

DDC classification:

HUT R

Summary: The looming spectre of death in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab made Proby Cautley wonder about the dichotomy of famin being a land of abundance. An artillery officer by training, the unlikely civil engineer in the East India Company's service - channelling the pristine snow-melt waters from the Himalayas into the parched fields through a network of unforgiving shadows of famine. It was a gritty struggle - fighting a recalcitrant colonial bureaucracy for approval and petty rivalry of other technocrats within John Company' hierarchy and disarming local superstitions.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	HUT R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		164137
Books	Gandhi Smriti Library	HUT R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Narmada Hostel OT Launge (NARMADA)	2023-09-29	164138

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The looming spectre of death in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab made Proby Cautley wonder about the dichotomy of famin being a land of abundance. An artillery officer by training, the unlikely civil engineer in the East India Company's service - channelling the pristine snow-melt waters from the Himalayas into the parched fields through a network of unforgiving shadows of famine. It was a gritty struggle - fighting a recalcitrant colonial bureaucracy for approval and petty rivalry of other technocrats within John Company' hierarchy and disarming local superstitions.

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