Kuhls of Kangra: community-managed irrigation in the Western Himalaya
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2005. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 271, [1]; 2 maps (1 full-page), 31 illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "In the Kangra Valley of India's western Himalaya, farmers have for centuries relied on community-managed kuhl systems-intricate networks of collectively built and maintained irrigation channels for their rice and wheat farming. Over the years, earthquakes and floods have repeatedly destroyed villagers' kuhls. More recently, increa-ing nonfarm employment has drawn labor away from kuhl maintenance and from farming itself. Prevailing theories of common property resource management suggest that such conditions should cause the kuhls to die out; instead most have been transformed and remain in active use" (jacket blurb). Item #71677
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