TY - BOOK AU - Iqbal,I. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - The Bengal Delta: Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840-1943 T2 - Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, SN - 9780230289819 AV - DS1-937 U1 - 950 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Palgrave Macmillan UK, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Asia-History KW - Geology KW - Economic history KW - History KW - Environmental economics KW - History, Modern KW - Asian History KW - Economic History KW - History of Science KW - Environmental Economics KW - Modern History N2 - 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 UR - https://s443-doi-org.br.lsproxy.net/10.1057/9780230289819 ER -