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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta - The Making of Calcutta (Hardcover)
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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta - The Making of Calcutta (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Environment and History
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What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an
unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history
of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to
1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and
struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of
environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that
'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and
water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was
at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind
the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is
narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and
transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this
history continues to shape our built environments with devastating
consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.
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