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

by J. Mark Baker

Book Overview

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, increasing nonfarm employment has drawn labor away from kuhl maintenance and from farming itself. Prevailing theories...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295984910
• ISBN13: 9780295984919
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"