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

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University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Iftekhar Iqbal

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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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Book Title: The Bengal Delta
Book Subtitle: Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943
Authors: Iftekhar Iqbal
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289819
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-23183-2Published: 20 October 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31221-4Published: 20 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28981-9Published: 20 October 2010
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 268
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian History, Geology, Economic History, History of Science, Environmental Economics, Modern History

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