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Subject(s)

• Human beings—Effect of environment on—South Asia [Browse]
• Human ecology—South Asia [Browse]
• River life—South Asia [Browse]
• South Asia—Economic conditions [Browse]
• South Asia—Rural conditions [Browse]
• South Asia—Social conditions [Browse]
• South Asia—Social life and customs [Browse]

Author

• Samanta, Gopa [Browse]
• Samanta, Gopa [Browse]

• Samanta, Gopa [Browse]

Series

• Yale agrarian studies series. [More in this series]
• Yale Agrarian Studies Series

Summary note

With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes." 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 metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Language note

English

Contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1. Introducing Chars
• Chapter 2. Char Jage
• Chapter 3. Controlling the River to Free Up Land
• Chapter 4. Bhitar o Bahir Katha
• Chapter 5. Silent Footfalls
• Chapter 6. Living with Risk
• Chapter 7. Livelihoods Defined by Water
• Chapter 8. Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers
• Appendix
• Notes
• Glossary
• References
• Index

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ISBN

• 0-300-18957-5
• 0-300-18830-7

OCLC

849493504

Doi

• 10.12987/9780300189575

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