Author: Bakarganj (District. Settlement Officer)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Final report on the survey and settlement operations in the Bakarganj district 1900 to 1908; by J.C. Jack
Author: Bakarganj (District. Settlement Officer)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the Bakarganj District, 1900 to 1908
Author: J. C. JackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Bengal, Past & Present
Author: Final Report on the Survey and Settlement Operations in the District of Bakarganj
Author: James Charles JackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Backergunge, India (District)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
General Catalogue of All Publications of the Government of India and Local Governments and Administrations ...
Author: IndiaThe Sundarbans
Author: Sutapa Chatterjee SarkarPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351587404
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The book is about the colonization of the Sunderbans that began with the coming of the British. For two centuries, land-hungry peasants strove to transform the tidal forest vegetation into an agro- ecosystem dominated by paddy fields and fish culture. The construction of a permanent railroad led to the spreading of the co- operative movement, the formation of peasant organizations, and finally culminated in open rebellion by the peasants (tebhaga).
General Catalogue of All Publications of the Government of India
Author: IndiaThe Bengal Delta
Author: I. IqbalPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230289819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological perspective as well as discussions of state's coercion and popular resistance, market forces and dependency, or contested cultures and consciousness.
Living with Epidemics in Colonial Bengal
Author: Arabinda SamantaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351399659
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Making epidemics in colonial Bengal as its entry point and drawing heavily on social, cultural and linguistic anthropology to understand the functions of health experiences, distribution of illness, prevention of sickness, social relations of therapeutic intervention and employment of pluralistic medical systems, the book interrogates the social construction of medical knowledge, politics of science, and the changing paradigm of relationship between health of the individual and the prerogatives of larger colonial economic formations. Smallpox, plague, cholera and malaria which visited colonial Bengal with epidemic vengeance, caught the people unaware, killed them in thousands, and changed the society and its demographic structures. The book shows how sometimes through mutual adaptation but more often by cultural contestation, people pulled on with their microbial fellow travellers, and how illness became metaphor for the social dangers of improper code of conduct, to be corrected only through personal expropriation of the sin committed, or by community worship of the deity supposedly responsible for it. As a result, Western medical science was often relegated to the background, and elaborate rites and rituals, supposedly having curative values, came to the forefront and were observed with much community fanfare. Epidemics were also interpreted as outcome of politically incorrect moves made by the ruling power. To right the wrongs, people very often resorted to social protest. The protest by the literati went sometimes muted when its members seem to be beneficiaries of the colonial government, but it turned out to be all the more violent when the people, who had no private axe to grind, took up the cudgel to fight it out.
Frederick Eden Pargiter
Author: Ananda BhattacharyyaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000760936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Sundarban stretches from the brackish waters of the broad Hooghly on the west, to the fresh waters of the still broader Meghna to the east; the turbid waters of the Bay of Bengal on its southern limits, to the zamindari or pargana lands on its northern extremity and includes in its southern fringes the dense natural mangrove forests, it is famous for. The revenue history of Sundarbans is linked up with its riverine and coastal networks to its strategic location at the head of the Bay of Bengal which made it a natural protective barrier for the densely populated city of Calcutta. The massive transformation combined with the changed physical structure of Sundarban influenced society and economy on the one hand and invited settlers to establish their control in that region on the other. The text of Pargiter focuses on the revenue history of a larger part of Sundarbans, viz., Jessore, Khulna, Bakarganj and some parts of 24-Parganas since the inception of the colonial rule in Bengal. It has also been shown how the colonial administrators took various types of measures for collecting revenue by the way of land reclamation. The introductory note by the editor analyses the revenue settlement policies which had been implemented on different occasions to ensure the revenue maximization policies of the British Raj on the one hand and to establish an human settlement in the deltaic region on the other. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka