After the Indian Mutiny, the Gov ernment of India began seriously to consider the herculean task of converting these great doabs from sandy wastes into fertile areas able of producing enormous crops and supporting a large and thriving population, and a wonderful and gigantic organization was thus into being. The cost of the projected canals was estimated at many millions of pounds sterling and ths surplus revenues of what was in those days, perhaps, the poorest province in India, were utterly in-equate to meet th" needs of the ease, The Government of India solved the difficulty by borrowing from the public at riginal from
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