Dancing with the river : people and life on the chars of South Asia / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta.

This book offers an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of 'hybrid environments.' Focusing on chars--the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal--the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metapho...

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Main Author: Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, 1956-
Other Authors: Samanta, Gopa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Series:Yale agrarian studies.
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