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The Bengal Delta

Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Iftekhar Iqbal

    1. University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • Iftekhar Iqbal
    Pages 1-17

  3. Ecology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century

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    Pages 18-38

  4. Economy and Society: the Myth and Reality of ‘Sonar Bangla’

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    Pages 39-66

  5. The Political Ecology of the Peasant: the Faraizi Movement between Revolution and Passive Resistance

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    Pages 67-92

  6. Return of the Bhadralok: the Agrarian Environment and the Nation

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    Pages 93-116

  7. The Railways and the Water Regime

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    Pages 117-139

  8. Fighting with a Weed: the Water Hyacinth, the State and the Public Square

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    Pages 140-159

  9. Between Food Availability Decline and Entitlement Exchange: an Ecological Prehistory of the Great Bengal Famine of 1943

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    Pages 160-183

  10. Reflections

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    Pages 184-193

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 194-268
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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.

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'The book's...special contribution is to emphasize the enviornment...that too is obviously a subject worth investigating.' - Reviews in History

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Iftekhar Iqbal

About the author

IFTEKHAR IQBAL is Assistant Professor in History at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has degrees in history from Dhaka and Cambridge Universities. His research focuses on the environmental history of modern South Asia, especially in Bengal, and its relationship to both local and global political, economic and social forces.

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