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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This 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. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108681727

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9781108681728

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world's largest tidal delta.

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1108425747

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9781108425742

The Partition of Bengal

Fragile Borders and New Identities

By: Debjani Sengupta

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The Partition of Bengal

Fragile Borders and New Identities

By: Debjani Sengupta

This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory of Bangla-speaking peoples and communities. This study contends that there is not one but many smaller partitions that women and men suffered, each with its own textures of pain, guilt and affirmation.

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1316673871

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9781316673874

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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Partition of Bengal

The Partition of Bengal

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