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View: A new book explores Indus Basin with a lesson on war and peaceBy Col (Dr) Divakaran Padma Kumar Pillay (Retd.), ET CONTRIBUTORS
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2021, 03:37 PM IST
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There are some very interesting conversation between Sadul Singh, the maharaja of Bikaner, Sardar Pannikar, Jawaharlal Nehru and Lord Mountbatten over the canal headworks and how eventually the headworks by drawing the Partition line came to India as a ‘strategic asset’.
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Uttam Sinha’s Indus Basin Uninterrupted, written with remarkable ease, engages not only with the ‘hydrology heritage’ of the basin but also with the history of major developments on its banks