The Bengal Delta Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943

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...

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Main Author: Iqbal, Iftekhar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2010, 2010
Series:Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:XX, 268 p online resource
ISBN:9780230289819