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Empire and ecology in the Bengal Delta : the making of Calcutta / Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in environment and historyPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019Description: xvi, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108706858 (pbk.)
  • 9781108425742 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.14703 BHA 23 015665
LOC classification:
  • DS485.G25 B488 2018
Contents:
Almanac of a Tidal Basin -- Environmental consolidations -- Power and silt -- Drying a delta -- Legal maneuvers -- Notarizing possessions -- Commerce in land -- Un-real estate -- Speculative properties -- Disappearing coastlines.
Summary: "History of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together"--
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 954.14703 BHA 015665 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 015665

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-233) and index.

Almanac of a Tidal Basin -- Environmental consolidations -- Power and silt -- Drying a delta -- Legal maneuvers -- Notarizing possessions -- Commerce in land -- Un-real estate -- Speculative properties -- Disappearing coastlines.

"History of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together"--

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