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Garden Of Fools
by Robert Hutchison (Author),
Palimpsest Publishing House Pvt.Ltd (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
About the Book: Garden of Fools
The looming spectre of death in the GangaYamuna Doab made Proby Cautley wonder
about the dichotomy of famine in what should have been a land of abundance. An
artillery officer by training, the unlikely civil engineer in the East India
Companys service embarked on his life mission channelling the pristine snow-melt
waters from the Himalayas into the parched fields through a network of canals,
to wipe out the unforgiving shadows of famine. It was a gritty struggle fighting
a recalcitrant colonial bureaucracy for approval and support, overcoming petty
rivalry of other technocrats within John Companys hierarchy and disarming local
superstitions. What gnawed
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9788192226613
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Palimpsest Publishing House Pvt.Ltd
Publishing Date 2018-03
Product Edition 1
Total Pages 432