Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s Ancient Past – Part VII By Seneka Abeyratne While the building of small-scale irrigation reservoirs or minor tanks was undertaken largely by village communities, the construction of large-scale irrigation reservoirs or major tanks was undertaken by the monarchs and upper tiers of the irrigation bureaucracy. Since the population was growing rapidly, […]
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Ruminations on Sri Lanka’s Ancient Past – Part VI By Seneka Abeyratne The evidence assembled by C.R. Panabokke, in ‘Evolution of the Indigenous Village Irrigation Systems of Sri Lanka’ (2010), shows the transition from rainfed to irrigated agriculture took place mainly in the 3rd century BCE. A study by Rukshan Jayawardena, ‘Ancient Irrigation and Related […]
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