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The Sundarbans

Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals

Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar

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English
Routledge
25 June 2024
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).

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm, 
Weight:   399g
ISBN:   9781032652931
ISBN 10:   1032652934
Pages:   216
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar is Reader, Department of History in the University of West Bengal State University.

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