Supplying the City: The Role of Reservoirs in an Indian Urban Landscape

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Title:	Supplying the City: The Role of Reservoirs in an Indian Urban Landscape
Author:	Morrison, Kathleen D
Date:	1993
Publisher:	University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
Citation:	Morrison, K. D. 1993. Supplying the City: The Role of Reservoirs in an Indian Urban Landscape. Asian Perspectives 32 (2): 133-51.
Abstract:	A class of agricultural facility, the reservoir or "tank," has played an important role in the development of South Indian urban centers. The form and operation, patterns of integration with other facilities, and modes of investment in reservoirs are discussed in the context of the pre-Colonial city of Vijayanagara (c. A.D. 1300-1600). In spite of their general morphological similarities, reservoirs played diverse roles in the organization of Vijayanagara agricultural production and in its pattern of change through time. KEYWORDS: Irrigation, South Asia, urbanism, agriculture.
Series/Report No.:	Volume 32 Number 2
ISSN:	1535-8283 (E-ISSN) 0066-8435 (Print)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/17027
Keywords:	Irrigation, South Asia, urbanism, agriculture
LC Subject Headings:	Prehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals. Prehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals. Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals. Oceania--Antiquities--Periodicals. East Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.