The Bengal Delta Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943
Description
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.
Keywords
HistoryAsiaScienceEarth SciencesGeologyBusiness & EconomicsEconomic HistoryEnvironmental EconomicsModern
2010Book
Author(s)Iftekhar Iqbal
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230231832
LanguageEnglish
