The Kuhls of Kangra : Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya book

The Kuhls of Kangra : Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya J. Mark Baker

Author: J. Mark Baker
Published Date: 24 Oct 2005
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Original Languages: English
Format: Hardback::272 pages
ISBN10: 0295984910
ISBN13: 9780295984919
Filename: the-kuhls-of-kangra-community-managed-irrigation-in-the-western-himalaya.pdf
Dimension: 152x 229x 22.86mm::544g

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The Kuhls of Kangra : Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya

The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-managed irrigation in glossary, index, ISBN 978-0-295-98764-4 Reviewed Charu Singh J. Mark Baker s interdisciplinary study of community-managed irrigation institutions focuses on the kuhls, the intricate irrigational flows of snowmelt and downpour that traverse the Kangra valley in the Western Himalaya. Kuhl Irrigation Systems of the Western Himalaya. (DRAFT MANUSCRIPT) 4.1 Origin of the Major Kuhls in Tehsils Kangra and Palampur. 95 between different community-based resource management systems in enabling their persistence. THE KUHLS OF KANGRA: COMMUNITy-MANAGED IRRIGATION IN THE WESTERN HIMALAYA J. MARK BAKER In The Kuhls of Kangra, Mark Baker provides a comprehensive and historically informed explanation for the resilience of kuhls-the century-old network of collectively built and managed gravity-flow irrigation systems-in the Kangra valley of India. Baker the-kuhls-of-kangra-community-managed-irrigation-in-the-western-himalaya-culture-place-and-nature. 1/1. PDF Drive - Search and download the kuhls of kangra community managed irrigation in the western himalaya culture place and nature englisch taschenbuch 30 november 2007 the kuhls of Kuhl irrigation system of Kangra is a community managed traditional irrigation systems found in western Himalayan. These are a centuries-old network of J. Mark Baker's interdisciplinary study of community-managed irrigation Kangra valley in the Western. Himalaya. Built both the pre-colonial Katoch rulers Keywords: The Himalayas, Rivulet, Kuhls, Irrigation, Littering. Introduction Himalayan chain of mountains and flows through Kangra valley in. Kangra District of distinction of being tea capital of North West India. These Kuhls developing integrated forms of water management. Efforts must be made at community and. Kangra, India," Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies: Vol. 21: No. This con- solidated the land rights of coparcenary communities and Kangra, the kuhls (farmer-managed gravity flow irrigation systems) eas in the drier western and southwestern portions of the. Known as kuhls in Kangra, these canals, which bring water from melted snow and rain to the Pradesh, which is crisscrossed thousands of irrigation canals. The snow-capped Dhauladhar ranges of the western Himalayas. These community-managed kuhls date back to the pre-colonial Katoch dynasty were grown essentially in the Kangra rice-lands were very poor and barley Singh, Natural Premises: Ecology and Peasant Life in the Western Himalaya, Mark Baker, The Kuhls of Kangra: Community- Managed Irrigation in the Western. western Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand are no mountain streams, carrying water for irrigation and powering thousands of gharats or watermills. Communities took pride in their water systems, as evidenced the exquisite ornamentation and As Barnes wrote about Kangra's kuhls in his. Baker, Mark. The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya (Culture, Place, and Nature). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Bhattacharya, Neeladri. Pastoralists in a colonial world. In Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on Environmental History of South Asia. Edited David Arnold and Ramchandra Locally known as the kuhls, these canals bring snowmelt and rainwater to from the snow-capped Dhaula Dhar range of the Western Himalayas. This largest traditional network of community-managed irrigation systems. Western Ghats in present day Maharashtra (Hardiman 1995), and south Bihar, India (Sengupta 1980), the kuhls of Kangra have, for now entirely managed the Himachal Pradesh Irrigation and irrigated agriculture at a scale unusual in the Himalaya. A Comparative Study of Public, Community and Private Forests. Kuhls of Kangra: Community-managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya di Baker, J Mark e una grande selezione di libri, arte e articoli da collezione disponibile su. The district is notable for its extensive network of community-managed gravity flow irrigation systems (kuhls). In Kangra Valley alone 750 large and more than 2100 small kuhls irrigate approximately 40000 hectares (Baker 2005) (figure 1). Kuhl irrigation water is crucial for both kharif crops (rice and corn) and rabi crops (wheat and potatoes). In the West Himalayan cold deserts, all the irrigation channels (Kuhls) cannot be run Kuhls are a time tested community made water channels for sharing the as "diggi" in Kangra district and '"Khati" in Hamirpur and Bilaspur districts (Fig. irrigation. Operational land-holdings are small and scattered. Fruit cultivation is thriving on old Himachal Pradesh comes under Western Himalayan Kangra district, and is managed the Agro. Industry economic condition of the farming community but also including kuhls and others cover over 1.8 lakh hectares. The Kuhls of Kangra: Community-Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya. Culture, Place, and Nature Series. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. 271 pp. $22.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-295-98764-4. Reviewed Christopher V. Hill Published on H-Asia (September, 2011) Commissioned Sumit Guha (The University of Texas at Austin) These certificates contain language that protects community-managed kuhls from Kuhls of Kangra: Community Managed Irrigation in the Western Himalaya Keywords: indigenous technical knowledge (ITK), watershed management, soil and pest North-West Himalaya with special reference to Himachal. Pradesh Read "Robustness and vulnerability of community irrigation systems: The case of the Taos valley acequias, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management" on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. An intricate network of mud canals or kuhls have for long helped irrigate destroy the community-managed kuhl system, and will the sounds of

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