The Bengal Delta
The Bengal Delta

Author: I. Iqbal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-10-20

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0230289819

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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.

Dancing with the River
Dancing with the River

Author: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0300189575

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With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal—the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.