An edition of Speaking rivers (2018)

Speaking rivers

environmental history of a mid-Ganga flood country, 1540-1885

Speaking rivers
Vipul Singh, Vipul Singh
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An edition of Speaking rivers (2018)

Speaking rivers

environmental history of a mid-Ganga flood country, 1540-1885

"The question of water and human dependence on river systems has become a major public concern of the twenty-first century. Based on a long term historical study of a flood country in the mid-Ganga basin, Speaking River: Environmental History of a Mid-Ganga Flood Country, 1540-1885 looks at the changing perception of the people of the Ganga region from a useful to a problematic river. Based on environmental, agricultural and cultural histories it explores the British colonial policy that altered the age-old relationship between the people and the river, and the long-term landscape transformations and cropping pattern changes that have been taking shape since early modern times. This book also examines the man-made calamities of 1770 and 1873-4 in ecological and human terms. Vipul sees a strong connection between economy and environment and goes on to question the presumed relationship between flood control and modernity, and explains as to why even today ecologically vulnerable diara land remains as the centre of conflict and dispute."--From dust jacket.

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Publisher
Primus Books
Language
English
Pages
228

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index.

Published in
Delhi

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
577.6609541
Library of Congress
QH183 .S57 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 228 pages
Number of pages
228

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL44124705M
ISBN 10
9386552825, 9386552833
ISBN 13
9789386552822, 9789386552839
LCCN
2017353313
OCLC/WorldCat
1035398555

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL32370243W

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