Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals
by
Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- ecosystem dominated by paddy fields and fish culture. The construction of a permanent railroad led to...