Revelle: 



We actually 

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had two projects. One was the study of water 

 in what later became Bangladesh. At that time 

 Pakistan. That was a study for the World Bank. 



what you mean by the Ganges study. It was 

 study of East Pakistan. This was seriously upset 



war. So we really were kind of a refugee 

 refugees from East Pakistan who couldn't go 

 St not till after the war was over. We had some 

 specimens. Some good ones too. 



The people who were particularly affected by this were 

 people called Biharis. Bihar is a state of India, and a 

 good many Bihari Muslims had moved to East Pakistan, but the 

 Bengalis took a very dim view of them and thought of them 

 essentially as fifth columnists from West Pakistan. Some of 

 these people were at the center and couldn't go back. We 

 had to somehow find money to support them, and we did. They 

 weren't very useful, but we just couldn't turn them out. 



There were some that were also quite useful, 

 particularly those that were involved with the HIID, Harvard 

 Institute for International Development it was called. Then 

 after Bangladesh became a separate country, we went back 

 there and worked some more with them. 



Sharp: I'm not sure when that was. 



Revelle: About '73. 



Sharp: But as early as the late 1960s there was the World Bank 

 project under way. It was a separate project that was 

 eventually accomplished after '73? 



Revelle: That's right. The bank was not very happy about it. The 



bank at that time, and it's pretty much still the case, had 

 almost no use for research. 



Sharp: 

 Revelle: 



Sharp: 



Revelle : 



Sharp: 



They want projects? 



They want projects, yes, essentially. And Peter didn't get 

 along very well with the project officer in the bank. So 

 that ended in, I wouldn't say a disaster, but at least not a 

 very satisfactory outcome, as far as the bank was concerned. 

 We did a lot of work, a hell of a lot of work, and 

 accumulated enormous quantities of data and of papers, all 

 of which eventually got turned over to the bank. 



Then the other project was a Ford Foundation project 

 that Peter had, which was supported by Ford India. 



There was one letter from Eugene Staples to you as early as 

 July of ' 67 . Do you remember looking at that letter?* 



No, I don't remember that letter. I kind of remember Eugene 

 Staples, [reads materials] I don't remember this at all. 

 That was before we got our World Bank project. 



Between '67 and '68 there were several different kinds of 

 correspondence setting out different projects that were 



