Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar

The Sundarbans

Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- ecosystem dominated by paddy fields and fish culture. The construction of a permanent railroad led to the spreading of the co- operative movement, th

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781032652931
• ISBN-10: 1032652934
• Artikelnr.: 70114945

Autorenporträt

Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar is Reader, Department of History in the University of West Bengal State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Sundarbans Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals: Introduction 2.
Fearsome Forests and Rising Tides: A Historical Geography of the Sundarbans
3. The Sundarbans in punthi Literature 4. Tilman Henckell: An Advocate of
Colonial Paternalism 5. Land Reclamation from the Eighteenth to the
Twentieth Century 6. Development of the Port at Canning and Gosaba
Co-operative 7. Tebhaga in Kakdwip 8. The Sundarbans in Modern Bengali
Fiction 9. The Mangrove and the Man: A Conclusion