Ecology, economy and society in the eastern Bengal Delta, c.1840-1943
This thesis argues that remarkable fluctuations in the economic and societal performance in colonial eastern Bengal were intimately related to changing ecological relations. During the nineteenth century, new alluvial lands were created by the fluvial actions of the rivers and huge tracts of land we...
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University of Cambridge
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604942 |