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General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton (15 May 1803 Oxford – 25 July 1899 Dorking) was a British general and irrigation engineer. May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ...
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Dorking is a market town nestling under the North Downs approximately 25 miles south of London, in Surrey in England. ...
High-altitude aerial view of irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara ( ) Irrigation is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops or plants. ...
Cotton devoted his life to the construction of irrigation and navigation canals through the Empire of India, which was only partially realised. He entered the Madras Engineers in 1819, and fought in the First Burmese War. Cotton was knighted in 1861. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Channel (geography). ...
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An evangelist, he was the father of Elizabeth Hope. Evangelism is the proclaiming of the Christian Gospel. ...
Lady Hope in 1887 Lady Elizabeth Reid Hope (née Cotton; December 9, 1842–8 March 1922) was a British evangelist who is generally believed to be the Lady Hope who claimed in 1915 that she had visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882. ...
Background
Thomas Cotton went to attend an interview for the post of an engineer. There were three candidates including himself. All that the selectors told them was to have a 'good sleep' and were provided three separate beds. The candidates did what they were told. While the other two candidates slept happily, poor Cotton could not get a wink of sleep. However, after some time, he slept happily. For the Technical Symposium of NITK Surathkal Engineer , see Engineer (Technical Fest). ...
The next day, all the three were asked if they slept happily by the selectors. While all the three nodded in the affirmative, Cotton added that he felt restless while on the bed—bending down, he realised that one of the four legs of the bed was a little high. To his surprise he found a pound beneath one of the legs which he promptly removed. That was the catch set up by the selectors.[1] ISO 4217 Code GBP User(s) United Kingdom Inflation 2. ...
His works The Dowleswaram Barrage is an irrigation structure was built on the last stretch of the Godavari River before it empties into the Bay of Bengal. ...
An insight Sir Cotton was hated by his administrative superiors—thanks to his loving attitudes towards the people of India[2]. At one point impeachment proceedings were initiated by his superiors for his dismissal[3]
Going through the famine and cyclone-ravaged districts of Godavari, Cotton was distressed by the sight of famished people of the Godavari districts[4]. It was then that he put in process his ambitious plans to harness the waters of the mighty Godavari for the betterment of the humanity. The Godavari River is a major waterway in India, next to the Ganges and Indus rivers. ...
John Henry Morris in Godavari [5] writes about the work of Sir Cotton thus: "The Godavari anicut is, perhaps, the noblest feat of engineering skill which has yet been accomplished in British India. It is a gigantic barrier thrown across the river from island to island, in order to arrest the unprofitable progress of its waters to the sea, and to spread them over the surface of the country on either side, thus irrigating copiously land which has hitherto been dependent on tanks or on the fitful supply of water from the river. Large tracts of land, which had hitherto been left arid and desolate and waste, were thus reached and fertilized by innumerable streams and channels."
In 1878, Cotton had to appear before a House of Commons Committee to justify his proposal to build an anicut across the Godavari[6]. A further hearing in the House of Commons followed by his letter to the then Secretary of State for India shows about his ambitiousness to built the anicut across the Godavari. His final sentence in that letter reads like this: My Lord, one day's flow in the Godavari river during high floods is equal to one whole years' flow in the Thames River of London[7]. Cotton was almost despaired by the British Government's procrastination in taking along this project. The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. ...
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That Government of India's plans to interlink rivers was long envisioned by Cotton is a fact[8]. The Government of India (Hindi: Bharat Sarkar), officially referred to as the Union Government, and commonly as Central Government, was established by the Constitution of India, and is the governing authority of a federal union of 28 states and 7 union territories, collectively called the Republic of India. ...
While at Rajahmundry, Arthur Cotton used to attend the Church of the Godavari Delta Mission. Rajahmundry or Rajamundry (రాజహà±à°®à°‚à°¡à±à°°à°¿ in Telugu) is a major city in East Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh state of southern India. ...
See also Map of the major rivers, lakes and reervoirs in India This page lists the reservoirs and dams in India. ...
Some external links - http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~dav4is/people/COTT305.htm
- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/Surrey/People/cotton.htm
- http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp09041
References - Notes
- ^ General Sir Arthur Cotton, His Life and Work [1] by Lady Hope
- ^ Please refer to Gautam Desiraju's letter to Current Science[2]
- ^ Gautam Desiraju op. cit.
- ^ The District of Godavari: Before and After Arthur Cotton worked his Magical Change [3] p.77
- ^ Descriptive and Historical Account of Godavari District in Madras Presidency [4] page 109
- ^ S. Gurumurthi in the Business Line [5] Godavari: Still a sleeping beauty
- ^ Gurumurthi op. cit.
- ^ Refer to Ch. Prashant Reddy's article in the Business Line [6]
- Further reading
- Lady Hope (1900). "General Sir Arthur Cotton, His Life and Work" (Reprint by Asian Educational Services [7]).
- Ch. Prashant Reddy in the Business Line (Wednesday, July 16, 2003). "National water grid - A hundred-year-old plan" (Business Line).
- S. Gurumurthi in the Business Line (Monday, October 14, 2002). "Godavari - Still a sleeping beauty" (Business Line).
- Avilash Roul (March14, 2006). "INDIA'S WATER FUTURE - Are Interbasin Water Transfers a Solution? in Eco-World".
- Gautam R. Desiraju (10 August 2003). "Sir Arthur Cotton - Correspondence with Current Science" 85 (3).
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