Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar

The Sundarbans (eBook, PDF)

Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals

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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, the formation of peasant organizations, and finally culminated in open rebellion by the peasants (tebhaga).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351587419
• Artikelnr.: 56902330

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