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020			_a9781108443340
028			_a: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. _b: 4794/23, 1st Floor, Opp.-Eye7, Ansari Road, New Delhi _c: TB3374 _d; 7/1/2024
082			_a954.14 BHA
100			_aBhattacharyya, Debjani.
245			_a Empire and ecology in the Bengal Delta _b: the making of Calcutta. _c/ Debjani Bhattacharyya.
260			_a , New York _b : Cambridge University Press, _c, 2018.
300			_axvi, 241 p. _b: illustrations, maps _c ; 24 cm.
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520			_aWhat happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.
650			_aHuman ecology
650			_aClimatic changes
650			_aGanges River Delta (Bangladesh and India)
700			_aDebjani Bhattacharyya.
942			_cBOOK
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