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Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar
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Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar is Reader, Department of History, West Bengal State University.
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- PublisherSocial Science Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 8187358351
- ISBN 13 9788187358350
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages202
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The Sundarbans : Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals
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Book Description Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Maps Abbreviations 1 The Sundarbans Folk Deities Monsters and Mortals Introduction 2 Fearsome Forests and Rising Tides A Historical Geography of the Sundarbans 3 The Sundarbans in punthi Literature 4 Tilman Henckell An Advocate of Colonial Paternalism 5 Land Reclamation from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century 6 Development of the Port at Canning and Gosaba Co-operative 7 Tebhaga in Kakdwip 8 The Sundarbans in Modern Bengali Fiction 9 The Mangrove and the Man A Conclusion Glossary IndexThe lower deltaic Bengal the Sundarbans has always had a life of its own unique in its distinctive natural aspect and social development Geographical and ecological evidence indicates that most of the area used to be once covered with dense impenetrable jungle even as patches of cultivation sprang intermittently into life and then disappeared A continuous struggle ensued between man and nature as portrayed in the punthi literature that thrived in lower deltaic Bengal between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries The construction of a permanent railroad connecting Calcutta to Canning further facilitated the influx of new ideas and these subsequently found expression in the spreading of co-operative movements formation of peasant organizations and finally culminated in open rebellion by the peasants Tebhaga Movement The struggle between men and the dangerous forests was therefore overshadowed by the conflict among men This book will be of great interest to students of history sociology anthropology and economic geography 212 pp. Seller Inventory # 90852
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