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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta The Making of Calcutta 1st Edition by Debjani Bhattacharyya ISBN 1108613233 9781108348867

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Author(s): Debjani Bhattacharyya

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 6.89 MB

Year: 2018

Language: english

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ISBN 10: 1108613233
ISBN 13: 9781108348867
Author: Debjani Bhattacharyya

What 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 publisher’s description

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta The Making of Calcutta 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction: Almanac of a Tidal Basin
Almanac: Toward a New Reading Practice
Swamps in History
Technologies of Property
Ecologies of Law
Environment and Property
Part I Environmental Consolidations
1 Power and Silt
Legislating the Vagaries of Silt
Geography as Evidence
Measurement in a Corrupt World
Fluid Landscapes
2 Drying the Delta
Thinking with Water
Hydrological Moments in Colonial History of Property
The Curious Case of the Land That Grew: How to Own Calcutta?
Manufacturing a Riverbank
Muddying Property
Part II Legal Maneuvers
3 Notarizing Possessions
Writing History with the River
The Many Biographies of One Plot of Land
Infrastructures of Power
4 Commerce in Land
New Economies of Infrastructure
Building on ”Bottomless Alluvion”: Wet Docks in a Drying Delta
Draining as Urbanization
The Swamp and the Changing Economy
Part III Unreal Estate
5 Speculative Properties
The Future Values of Land
Rationalizing the Land Market
A Numerical Controversy?
A Narrative of Squeezing
Conclusion: Disappearing Coastlines
Glossary
Bibliography
Archives
India Office Library Records, London (IOR)
Kolkata Port Trust
National Archives of India, New Delhi (NAI)
Newspapers
West Bengal State Archives (WBSA)
Published Primary Sources
Documents and Reports
Published Laws and Acts
Memoirs
Secondary Sources
Index

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