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

By: Iqbal, Iftekhar [author.]Material type: Text

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): Human ecology -- India -- Bengal -- History | Nationalism -- India -- Bengal -- History | Political ecology -- India -- Bengal | Agriculture -- India -- Bengal -- History | Social change -- India -- History | Bengal (India) -- -- Environmental conditions | Bengal (India) -- -- Politics and government | Agriculture -- Ecology | Political ecologyDDC classification: 304.2095492

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.

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