Ecology, State and Social Change, 1840–1943
by
I. Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
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.