01940nam a22003497a 4500 20220110121611.0 201006s2010 enkacb|| b||| 001 0 eng d 632079110 9781349312214 (Hardback) 9780333919088 (Hardback) 9780333919095 (Paperback) BD-DhGAR BD-DhGAR BD-DhBPA 304.2095492 IQB 2010 Iqbal, Iftekhar; author. The bengal delta: ecology, state and social change, 1840-1943 / Iftekhar Iqbal. Basingstoke, England: Plagrave Macmillan, c2010. xx, 268p.: illus., maps; 24 cm. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies. 149341 Includes Index and Bibliographical reference. Introduction -- Ecology and agrarian relations in the nineteenth century -- Economy and society : the myth and reality of "Sonar Bangla" -- The political ecology of the peasant : the Faraizi Movement between revolution and passive resistance -- Return of the Bhadralok : the agrarian environment and the nation -- The railways and the water regime -- Fighting with a weed : the water hyacinth, the state and the public square -- Between food availability decline and entitlement exchange : an ecological prehistory of the Great Bengal Famine of 1943 -- Reflections. Kalam Human ecology India Bengal History. 149342 Nationalism India Bengal History. 149343 Political ecology India Bengal. 149344 Agriculture India Bengal History. 149345 Social change India History. 149346 Bengal (India) -- Environmental conditions. 149347 Bengal (India) -- Politics and government. 149348 Agriculture Ecology. 149349 Political ecology. 149350 ddc BK 53514 53514 0 0 ddc 0 0 BPATC BPATC Book Review81 5 304.2095492 IQB 2010 111716 2026-07-15 2026-07-15 23:26:22 2026-07-15 2022-01-10 BK