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Ganges Canal

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The Ganges or Ganga Canal is a canal system that irrigates the Doab region between the Ganges River and the Yamuna River in India. [1]

38 relations: Agra famine of 1837–38, Aligarh district, Barrage (dam), Bhimgoda Barrage, Bulandshahr, Canal, Doab, East India Company, Etawah, Ganesha, Ganga Canal (Rajasthan), Ganges, Har Ki Pauri, Haridwar, Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary, Hindu, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, JK Temple, Kanpur, Kiln, Mainpuri district, Mayawati, Meerut, Narora, National Highway 58 (India, old numbering), Proby Cautley, Rajasthan, Roorkee, Saharanpur district, Samuel Bourne, Sengar River, Shikohabad, Sify, Sri Ganganagar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Yamuna.

Agra famine of 1837–38

The Agra famine of 1837–1838 was a famine in the newly established North-Western Provinces (formerly Ceded and Conquered Provinces) of Company-ruled India that affected an area of and a population of 8 million people.

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Aligarh district

Aligarh district is a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Barrage (dam)

A barrage is a type of low-head, diversion dam which consists of a number of large gates that can be opened or closed to control the amount of water passing through.

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Bhimgoda Barrage

The Bhimgoda Barrage, also referred to as the Bhimgoda Weir or Bhimgoda Head Works, is a barrage on the Ganges River at Har ki Pauri near Haridwar in Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, India.

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Bulandshahr

Bulandshahr is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Canal

Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.

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Doab

Doab (from dō, "two" + āb, "water" or "river") is a term used in India and Pakistan for the "tongue," or water-richAugust 2010,, Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development,, page vi.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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Etawah

Etawah is a city on the banks of Yamuna River in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India.

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Ganesha

Ganesha (गणेश), also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, Pillaiyar and Binayak, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon.

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Ganga Canal (Rajasthan)

The Ganga Canal (Gang Canal) of Rajasthan is an irrigation system of canals laid down by Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner in his princely state in the present district of Sri Ganganagar in the early twentieth century.

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Ganges

The Ganges, also known as Ganga, is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh.

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Har Ki Pauri

haridwar (Hindi: हर की पौड़ी) is a famous ghat on the banks of the Ganges in Haridwar in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Haridwar

Haridwar (pron:ˈ), also spelled Hardwar, is an ancient city and municipality in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India.

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Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary

Hastinapur Sanctuary was founded in 1986, in Meerut, Muzzafarnagar, Ghaziabad, Bijnor, and Amroha districts of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Hindu

Hindu refers to any person who regards themselves as culturally, ethnically, or religiously adhering to aspects of Hinduism.

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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (also known as IIT Kanpur or IITK) is a public engineering institution located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee or IITR), formerly University of Roorkee and Thomason College of Civil Engineering, is a public engineering university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

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JK Temple

JK Temple(Juggilal Kamlapati temple) is a temple in the Indian city of Kanpur.

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Kanpur

Kanpur (formerly Cawnpore) is the 12th most populous city in India and the second largest city in the state of Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow.

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Kiln

A kiln (or, originally pronounced "kill", with the "n" silent) is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.

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Mainpuri district

Mainpuri district is one of the districts in Agra division of Uttar Pradesh state of India.

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Mayawati

Mayawati Das (born 15 January 1956), commonly known as Mayawati or Kumari Mayawati (Miss Mayawati), is an Indian politician who spent four separate terms as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

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Meerut

Meerut (IAST: Meraṭha), is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Narora

Narora is located on the banks of river Ganges, in district Bulandshahar, Uttar Pradesh.

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National Highway 58 (India, old numbering)

National Highway 58 (NH 58) is a national highway in India.

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Proby Cautley

Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, KCB (3 January 1802 – 25 January 1871), English engineer and palaeontologist, born in Stratford St Mary, Suffolk, is best known for conceiving and supervising the construction of the Ganges canal during East India Company rule in India.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (literally, "Land of Kings") is India's largest state by area (or 10.4% of India's total area).

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Roorkee

Roorkee (Rūṛkī) is a city in North India and a Municipal Corporation in the Haridwar district of state Uttarakhand, India.

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Saharanpur district

Saharanpur district is the northernmost of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India.

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Samuel Bourne

Samuel Bourne (30 October 1834 – 24 April 1912) was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870.

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Sengar River

Sengar River is a tributary of the river Yamuna in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Shikohabad

Shikohabad is a town and a municipal board in the Firozabad district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Sify

Sify Technologies Limited is an Indian information and communications technology company providing end to end ICT solutions including Telecom Services, Data Center Services, Cloud & Managed services, Transformation Integration Services and Application Integration Services.

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Sri Ganganagar

Sri Ganganagar (SGNR) is a planned city and the northern-most city of the Indian state of Rajasthan, near the borders of Rajasthan and Punjab states and the international border of India and Pakistan.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, officially the State of Uttarakhand (Uttarākhaṇḍ Rājya), formerly known as Uttaranchal, is a state in the northern part of India.

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Yamuna

The Yamuna (Hindustani: /jəmʊnaː/), also known as the Jumna, (not to be mistaken with the Jamuna of Bangladesh) is the longest and the second largest tributary river of the Ganges (Ganga) in northern India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_Canal

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