The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840-1943

by Iftekhar Iqbal

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230231837
• ISBN13: 9780230231832
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"