Scientific Empire and Imperial Science: Colonialism and Irrigation Technology in the Indus Basin
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 53 (4), 1127-1149
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2059236
Abstract
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.Keywords
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