Iqbal Iftekhar. The Bengal Delta Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840-1943

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 289 p.List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of AbbreviationsEcology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century
Economy and Society: the Myth and Reality of ‘Sonar Bangla’
The Political Ecology of the Peasant: the Faraizi Movement between Revolution and Passive Resistance
Return of the Bhadralok: the Agrarian Environment and the Nation
The Railways and the Water Regime
Fighting with a Weed: the Water Hyacinth, the State and the Public Square
Between Food Availability Decline and Entitlement
Exchange: an Ecological Prehistory of the Great Bengal
Famine of 1943
Reflections
Notes
Appendixes