Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrecking the economy of the entire subcontinent. Pakistan got the jute and most of the cotton; India kept the jute mills and most of the coal. Even more important, India and Kashmir control the headstreams of the five great rivers that water Pakistan's granary: the fertile Punjab...
Charge & Countercharge. Pakistan, like Egypt, lives by irrigation: its rivers are its life. When the Punjab's canals yield plentiful water, Pakistani peasants harvest three good crops a year; when the canals run dry, the peasants are apt to starve. Pakistan's complaint is that India has dried up eleven vital canals by diverting water from the Punjabi head-streams to its irrigation schemes...
...Ismay was born in India, and raised to be a soldier. After Sandhurst, he served in the Punjab, and in World War I successfully led a camel corps in Somaliland against the fanatical forces of the "Mad Mullah" Mohammed Ibn Abdullah. Churchill first saw and admired Ismay during England's near-revolutionary general strike in 1926. Ismay, then on the Imperial Defense Committee, called out the territorial army to help put the strike down. Churchill signaled him to his side when he became Prime Minister...
Carefully avoiding taboos and deeply rooted customs, Holmes succeeded in getting some of the farmers to plant a new kind of Indian wheat (Punjab 591). In the first season it yielded 43% more than the old-style wheat. Next year Punjab 591 was planted by entire villages, and even spread outside the experimental area. The increase went up to 63% when Holmes showed the farmers how to rotate their wheat with soil-improving legumes. With potatoes Holmes had the same success. A new variety increased the yield...
Already the water engineers have sunk four successful wells in the Chandigarh Valley-in each case the site was pointed out by the traditional Hindu water diviner. After the September monsoons, building will start on government employees' housing. Says the Punjab's Chief Minister Gopi Bhargava: "It will be the world's most charming capital...