Epic Engineering: Great Canals and Barrages of Victorian IndiaAlan RobertsonBeechwood Melrose Publishing, 2013, 254 pages Though contemporaries in India, and equally qualified, the two men could not have been more different in their approach to engineering problems. A book follows the lives and achievements of two engineering geniuses who changed the face of irrigation in India in the 19th century. In the 1930’s Cotton built the Upper and Lower Anicut to regulate and divert for irrigation the flow of water in the Cauvery and Coleroon (Kollidam) rivers. The Godavari’s flow in monsoon was three times greater than the Nile in flood, Robertson writes, therefore greater the challenge.

Source: The Hindu June 14, 2016 06:44 UTC