The Bengal Delta [electronic resource] : Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943 /
Iqbal, I.author.
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; 1 Introduction; 2 Ecology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century; 3 Economy and Society: the Myth and Reality of 'Sonar Bangla'; 4 The Political Ecology of the Peasant: the Faraizi Movement between Revolution and Passive Resistance; 5 Return of the Bhadralok: the Agrarian Environment and the Nation; 6 The Railways and the Water Regime; 7 Fighting with a Weed: the Water Hyacinth, the State and the Public Square
8 Between Food Availability Decline and Entitlement Exchange: an Ecological Prehistory of the Great Bengal Famine of 19439 Reflections; Notes; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
Asia-History.
Geology.
Economic history.
History.
Environmental economics.
History, Modern.
Asian History.
Geology.
Economic History.
History of Science.
Environmental Economics.
Modern History.