The social response to irrigation: An Indian case study1
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Development Studies
- Vol. 16 (1) , 3-26
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00220387908421741
Abstract
Because canal irrigation is a resource which has to be managed collectively, it is said to be an important determinant of the forms of social organisation of villages which benefit from it. This paper examines this argument with evidence from villages in a Southern Indian district. It concludes that there is a relationship between the degree of corporate organisation and the scarcity and uncertainty of water supply, but that the starkness of the relationship is often softened by a number of other relevant factorsKeywords
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