The bengal delta: ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 /
Iftekhar Iqbal.
- Basingstoke, England: Plagrave Macmillan, c2010.
- xx, 268p.: illus., maps; 24 cm.
- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. .
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.