Volume : II, Issue : XII, January - 2013 IRRIGATION SYSTEM, WATER MANAGEMENT AND AGRARIAN SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN PENNAR VALLEY UNDER THE CHOLAS![](ArticleImage/No_Image.jpg) P.RAJAN Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Agriculture is the major non-industrial sector of India since ancient times. In
Tamil country, as explored in Tamil literature, the major economic activity had been
agriculture. Particularly, there is a poetic proverb among Tamils, “Cholanadu
Chorudaithu”, which means Chola country that is the Thanjavur delta is the “Grannery
of South India”. Like the Thanjavur delta, Naduvil-nadu a territorial division lays in,
Southern Pennar River Basin of Tamil country still has been a strong agrarian belt. The
area of the riverside basin of southern Pennar (South Pennaiyar or Ponnaiyar) in
Naduvil Nadu lying between Gadilam river on the left and Ginji river or Sangaraparani
river on the right. Most of the scholars have agreed that the term Naduvil-Nadu comes
from the territory in between Tondai-Nadu and Chola-Nadu. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : P.RAJAN, (2013). IRRIGATION SYSTEM, WATER MANAGEMENT AND AGRARIAN SYSTEM IN SOUTHERN PENNAR VALLEY UNDER THE CHOLAS. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. XII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1852.pdf References : - A.R.E., (Annual Report on South Indian Epigraphy) 1923, No. 142; S.I.I., (South Indian Inscription) Vol. VII. No. 767.
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