The Sharda Canal was the last major British colonial irrigation project completed in the United Provinces of India. Under British colonial rule, the Indian Irrigation Commission was responsible for irrigation projects throughout colonial India. The commission focused on major canal systems that were supposed to make a profit even though many were unnecessary or even harmful to local cultivation. The Sharda Canal was the last of these projects, and was used for irrigation and power generation in the Uttar Pradesh region.
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- Whitcombe, Elizabeth. “The Environmental Costs of Irrigation in British India: Water-logging, Salinity and Malaria.” In Nature, Culture, Imperialism: Essays on the Environmental History of South Asia, edited by David Arnold, and Ramachandra Guha. Delhi: OUP, 1996.
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1930