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The salutary influence of irrigation on human settlement, economy and political power in pre-modern southeast Asia [1]

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The tropical monsoon rhythm for over centuries obviously occasioned the development of water works which facilitated wet rice cultivation in pre-modern Southeast Asia.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2005
Y Yagama Reddy [2]
Asian Agri-History [3]
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Rice [4], Water Management [5], Water Conservation [6], Dams/ Irrigation [7], Irrigation [8], Monsoons [9], Traditional Knowledge [10], History [11], Asia [12], Cambodia [13], Myanmar [14], Thailand [15], Vietnam [16], Asian Agri-History [3], Y Yagama Reddy [2]

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