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The Bengal Delta = ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Bengal Delta/ by Iftekhar Iqbal.
Reminder of title:	ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 /
Author:	Iqbal, Iftekhar.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2010.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Agriculture - History. - India -
Subject:	Bengal (India) - Social life and customs. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230289819 (electronic bk.)

The Bengal Delta = ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 /
Iqbal, Iftekhar.

The Bengal Deltaecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 /[electronic resource] :by Iftekhar Iqbal. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - 1 online resource. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series. - Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ecology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century -- Economy and Society: The Myth and Reality of 'Sonar Bangla' -- Political Ecology of the Peasant: The Faraizi Movement Between Revolution and Passive Resistance -- Return of the Bhadralok: Agrarian Environment and the Nation -- The Railways and the Water Regime -- Fighting With a Weed: Water Hyacinth, the State and the Public Square -- Between Food Availability Decline and Entitlement Exchange: An Ecological Prehistory of the Great Bengal Famine of 1943.

The Bengal Delta is the first major environmental history of colonial Bengal, Bangladesh in particular. It suggests that this active deltaic plain was a prosperous and dynamic part of South Asia's economy until far later than most historians imagine. It was a frontier zone facing the Indian Ocean, drawing in capital, labour and intense imperial interest until the turn of the twentieth century. The book argues that rural impoverishment stemmed from environmental changes that developed from the complex relationship between the region's highly fluid ecology, the state, nationalist politics, technology and biological exchanges. In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of Bengal, the book argues that the most widely debated issues around the region's modern history agrarian stagnation, communal violence, poverty and famine can only be understood satisfactorily from an ecological perspective of the dominant discourses of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.

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ISBN: 9780230289819 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786612997501

Source: 364370Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.com

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015561894UkSubjects--Topical Terms:

231325
Agriculture
--History.--IndiaSubjects--Geographical Terms:

91899
Bengal (India)
--Social life and customs.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DS485

Dewey Class. No.: 333.709541409034

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