Punjab Canal Colonies
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Punjab Canal Colonies
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The Punjab Canal Colonies is the name given to parts of western Punjab which were brought under cultivation through the construction of canals and agricultural colonisation during the British Raj. The Punjab underwent an agricultural revolution, with arid subsistence production getting replaced by commerce-oriented production of huge amounts of wheat, cotton and sugar. Between 1885 and 1940, nine canal colonies were created in the inter-fluvial tracts west of the Beas and Sutlej and east of the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjab_Canal_Colonies
date created:
2017-04-02T10:34:41Z
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2024-09-05T05:29:51Z
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