Volume 23, Number 11 · June 24, 1976
India: New Claim on the Land
By V.S. Naipaul
The engineer who had introduced me to the squatters' settlement in Bombay was also working on a cooperative irrigation scheme up on the Deccan plateau, some miles southeast of Poona. In India, where nearly everything waits for the government, a private scheme like this, started by farmers on their own, was new and encouraging; and one week I went with the engineer to look.
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