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The bengal delta: ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 / Iftekhar Iqbal.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial StudiesPublication details: Basingstoke, England: Plagrave Macmillan, c2010.Description: xx, 268p.: illus., maps; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781349312214 (Hardback)
  • 9780333919088 (Hardback)
  • 9780333919095 (Paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2095492 IQB 2010
Contents:
Introduction -- Ecology and agrarian relations in the nineteenth century -- Economy and society : the myth and reality of "Sonar Bangla" -- The political ecology of the peasant : the Faraizi Movement between revolution and passive resistance -- Return of the Bhadralok : the agrarian environment and the nation -- The railways and the water regime -- Fighting with a weed : the 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 -- Reflections.
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Includes Index and Bibliographical reference.

Introduction --
Ecology and agrarian relations in the nineteenth century --
Economy and society : the myth and reality of "Sonar Bangla" --
The political ecology of the peasant : the Faraizi Movement between revolution and passive resistance --
Return of the Bhadralok : the agrarian environment and the nation --
The railways and the water regime --
Fighting with a weed : the 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 --
Reflections.

Abul Kalam Azad

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