TY - BOOK AU - Iqbal,Iftekhar TI - The bengal delta: ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 SN - 9781349312214 (Hardback) U1 - 304.2095492 PY - 2010/// CY - Basingstoke, England PB - Plagrave Macmillan KW - Human ecology KW - India KW - Bengal KW - History KW - Nationalism KW - Political ecology KW - Agriculture KW - Social change KW - Bengal (India) -- KW - Environmental conditions KW - Politics and government KW - Agriculture KW - Ecology. N1 - 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 ER -