Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta
Debjani (Drexel University, Philadelphia) Bhattacharyya
Cambridge University Press, 2019
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What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history, which spans from 1760 to 1920, demonstrates how colonial property law and hydraulic engineering transformed the ecology of the Bengal delta to drain Calcutta.
- ISBN-13
- 9781108443340
- ISBN-10
- 1108443346
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-06-13
- Pages
- 258
- Dimensions
- 228x151x25
- Weight
- 384