Question

What were canal colonies?
Why were they built?
Answer please!?

Answer 1

Canal colonies were the areas irrigated by the

new canals.

The British government built these new

canals for the following reasons:-

1. They built a network of irrigation canals in West

Punjab to transform semi-desert land into a

fertile agricultural lands.

2. The Britishers wanted to export wheat and

cotton. So people from other parts of Punjab

were called and settled to grow wheat and

cotton here

Answer 2

Canal colonies were the areas irrigated by the new canals.

The British government built these new canals for the following reasons:-

1. They built a network of irrigation canals in West Punjab to transform semi-desert land into fertile agricultural lands.

2. The Britishers wanted to export wheat and cotton. So people from other parts of Punjab were called and settled to grow wheat and cotton here.