Publication: Discipline and drain: settling the moving Bengal delta
Discipline and drain: settling the moving Bengal delta
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Bhattacharyya, D. (2018). Discipline and drain: settling the moving Bengal delta. Global Environment, 11(2), 236–257. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2018.110203
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The codification of property laws in colonial India and the British encounter with the fluidity and 'capriciousness' of the tidal landscape took place simultaneously. While we know that the movement of the tidal rivers in the Bengal Delta followed by land subsidence and formation of new alluvion affected how revenue was extracted for the English East India Company, we know barely little about how the ecological specificity of the Gangetic plains affected the process of property law-making in British India. In this article, I look at t
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- Bhattacharyya, Debjani
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Bhattacharyya, D. (2018). Discipline and drain: settling the moving Bengal delta. Global Environment, 11(2), 236–257. https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2018.110203
