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Scientific Empire and Imperial Science: Colonialism and Irrigation Technology in the Indus Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

David Gilmartin
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In the eyes of many colonial administrators in the nineteenth century, the advance of science and the advance of colonial rule went hand in hand: Science helped to secure colonial rule, to justify European domination over other peoples, and to transform production for an expanding world economy (Adas 1989). The history of irrigation in India, where the British built large new irrigation works to increase colonial revenues and expand commercial production, provides a dramatic illustration of this.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , November 1994 , pp. 1127 - 1149
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994

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