The Indian Monsoon and Its EffectsUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1923 |
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accompanying Acreage acres agriculture amount Asia August average beginning belt Bengal Blanford blow Bombay branches British canals cause cent Central Ceylon classes Climates coast complete Cotton crops cultivation cyclonic deaths Deccan deficiency density dependent direction disease distributaries distribution districts divided drought east economic effect exist extends fact failure famine feet frequently Ganges Gazetteer of India grain heavy hills Himalayas holdings Ibid Imperial Gazetteer important inches increase Industrial irrigation July June land less living low pressure means miles million moisture months mountain nearly northeast northern northwest organization peninsula period population poverty probably productive protective Provinces Punjab rainfall rains ranges reach receive region relief Report rice rise river season shows southwest monsoon storms temperature tion trades usually valley weather Western winds winter
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Page 29 - Deccan, an ideal economic holding would consist of (say) forty or fifty acres of fair land in one block with at least one good irrigation well, and a house situated on the holding.
Page 38 - ... winds from June to October. The establishment of the emporium at Berenice in the third century BC thus paved the way for a vast expansion of the Eastern trade as soon as the monsoons were put to their mercantile uses in the first century AD Egyptian merchant fleets sailed from Berenice or Myos Hormos in July, rounded the modern Aden with a halt at Kane in August, and were blown rudely across the Arabian Sea to Malabar by the middle of September —a voyage of sixty or seventy days from the Egyptian...
Page 27 - From 1820 to 1840 it remained constant at 14 acres, and by 1915 it had been reduced to 7 acres. Of the total number of holdings in the village 81 per cent are now under 10 acres in size, 60 per cent under 5 acres.
Page 15 - The unrealistic nature of the original research programme is generally fairly rapidly corrected and would not be so serious were it not for the fact that...
Page 38 - ... more than does the native, and unless he is wise enough to adopt the latest discoveries of medical science his children die or grow up weak. It is notoriously true that in India there is almost no such thing as a fourth generation of Indian-born British. The original stock is so weakened by tropical conditions that the children must either be sent back to Europe to recover their health, or else they become enfeebled and their descendants soon die out.
Page 11 - ... geweilt hat, zu widersprechen mir herausnehme, so geschieht es auf Grund der Aussagen Blanford's, der in diesen Dingen ja von Allen als erste Autorität anerkannt werden muss. Es sei mir daher gestattet, die massgebende Stelle aus Blanford's, Climates and Weather of India, S. 210 hier abzudrucken: "The transition from the hot season to the rains is gradual only in Assam, and to a less extent in Bengal and Arakan. In Western, North-western, and Central India, where land-winds prevail, more or...
Page 57 - In 330 AH (941-2 AD), a comet made its appearance, the tail of which reached from the eastern to the western horizon. It remained in the heavens eighteen days...
Page 47 - ... those which were not classed as productive or protective. They included a few small works built by the British Government, but the majority were indigenous works which Government had taken over, improved and maintained. They included many of the great inundation canals which draw their supplies from the Indus and its tributaries in the Punjab and Sind, a number of old irrigation works and flood...
Page 7 - The broken arrows show the tracks of typical storms formed over the land at the head of the Bay at the height of the monsoon, the full arrows the tracks of typical hurricanes formed over the sea in the months of advance and retreat of the monsoon» , of Uppina Fattan, showing fragmentation of land.