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Britishers made a network of irrigation canals in West Uttar Pradesh.

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Britishers who made India one of their colonies wanted to make as much profit and trade from their colonies as possible. They tried to trade in wheat and cotton. Because they were cash crops and were highly demanded back in Britain and Europe, so to expand the cultivable land, they wanted to transform the desert into green fields in which cotton, wheat, and rice could be grown. Irrigation canals were needed to make the desert fertile, so they built them. However, the channels of irrigation canals that they built were in the regions of Western Punjab and not West Uttar Pradesh.

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