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The Bengal Delta

Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943
By:I. Iqbal
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230231832
eText ISBN:9780230289819
Edition:0
Copyright:2010
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.