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The Bengal Delta : ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943

[NT 42944] Record Type:	[NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
[NT 47348] Title Information:	ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943
[NT 47261] Author:	IqbalIftekhar.,
[NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Palgrave Connect (Online service)
[NT 47351] Place of Publication:	Basingstoke
[NT 47263] Published:	Palgrave Macmillan;
[NT 47352] Year of Publication:	2010
[NT 47264] Description:	1 online resource.
[NT 47298] Series:	Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
[NT 47266] Subject:	Nationalism - History. - India -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Political ecology - India -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Agriculture - History. - India -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Social change - History. - India -
[NT 47266] Subject:	NATURE - Natural Resources. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Environmental Economics. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - Green Business. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Asian history - Indian sub-continent. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	Environmental economics - Indian sub-continent. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 - Indian sub-continent. -
[NT 47266] Subject:	History. -
[NT 51458] Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230289819An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
[NT 47265] Notes:	Description based on print version record.
[NT 51398] Summary:	The Bengal Delta is the first major environmental history of colonial Bengal, Bangladesh in particular. It suggests that this active deltaic plain was a prosperous and dyclmic part of South Asia's economy until far later than most historians imagine. It was a frontier zone facing the Indian Ocean, drawing in capital, labour and intense imperial interest until the turn of the twentieth century. The book argues that rural impoverishment stemmed from environmental changes that developed from the complex relationship between the region's highly fluid ecology, the state, nationalist politics, technology and biological exchanges. In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of Bengal, the book argues that the most widely debated issues around the region's modern history agrarian stagnation, communal violence, poverty and famine can only be understood satisfactorily from an ecological perspective of the dominant discourses of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780230289819electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0230289819electronic bk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	9780230231832hbk.
[NT 50961] ISBN:	0230231837hbk.
[NT 60779] Content Note:	Ecology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century Economy and Society: The Myth and Reality of 'Sonar Bangla' Political Ecology of the Peasant: The Faraizi Movement Between Revolution and Passive Resistance Return of the Bhadralok: Agrarian Environment and the Nation The Railways and the Water Regime Fighting With a Weed: 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.

The Bengal Delta : ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943
Iqbal, Iftekhar.

The Bengal Delta : ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 / by Iftekhar Iqbal. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 1 online resource.. - (Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series).
Ecology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century.
Description based on print version record..
Includes bibliographical references and index..
ISBN 9780230289819ISBN 0230289819ISBN 9780230231832ISBN 0230231837
NationalismPolitical ecologyAgricultureSocial changeNATUREBUSINESS & ECONOMICSBUSINESS & ECONOMICSAsian historyEnvironmental economics20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000History. -- History. -- History. -- History. -- Natural Resources. -- Environmental Economics. -- Green Business. -- India -- India -- India -- India -- Indian sub-continent. -- Indian sub-continent. -- Indian sub-continent.

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