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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:	Human ecology > South Asia. Human ecology > Ganges River Delta (Bangladesh and India) River life > South Asia. Human beings > Effect of environment on > South Asia. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science. Economic history Human beings > Effect of environment on Human ecology Manners and customs River life Rural conditions Social conditions South Asia > Rural conditions. South Asia > Economic conditions. South Asia > Social life and customs. South Asia > Social conditions. Asia > Ganges River Delta South Asia
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Table of Contents:

Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1. Introducing Chars: Where Lands Float on Water
CHAPTER 2. Char Jage: A Char Rises
CHAPTER 3. Controlling the River to Free Up Land
CHAPTER 4. Bhitar o Bahir Katha: Inside and Outside Stories of Chars and the Mainland
CHAPTER 5. Silent Footfalls: Peopling the Chars
CHAPTER 6. Living with Risk: Beyond Vulnerability/Security
CHAPTER 7. Livelihoods Defined by Water: Nadir Sathe Baas
CHAPTER 8. Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers
Appendix: Full Census Data for Surveyed CharsNotes
Glossary
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References
Index
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Dancing with the river : people and life on the chars of South Asia / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta.

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