The Sundarbans: Folk Deities, Monsters and MortalsThe 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). |
Contents
The Sundarbans in punthi Literature | |
An Advocate of Colonial Paternalism | |
Land Reclamation from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth | |
Development of the Port at Canning and Gosaba Cooperative | |
Tebhaga in Kakdwip | |
The Sundarbans in Modern Bengali Fiction | |
A Conclusion | |
Other editions - View all
The Sundarbans: Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar No preview available - 2017 |
The Sundarbans: Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar No preview available - 2010 |
Common terms and phrases
24 Parganas Account of Bengal agricultural Archives Bakarganj Banabibi bargadars Bartika became Bengal District Gazetteer Beveridge Bhavana bighas Board of Revenue British Calcutta co-operative Collector colonial Committee of Revenue Communist Party crocodiles cultivation dacoits Dakshin Ray Damaru Daniel Hamilton deities Delhi Dukhe embankments forest Ganga goddess Gosaba Government of Bengal grants Henckell Henckell's Hindus Hooghly ibid Jessore jungle Kakdwip Kalu Khulna Kisan L.R. Branch land reclamation Land Revenue landlords lease Letter from Presidency Letter from Sundarban Magh Mahasweta Devi Matla Muslim Nilu officers op.cit P.C. Joshi paddy panchayat Pargiter Party of India peasants police port Presidency Commissioner Pushpa Datta Raimangal region rent Report rice river rules ryots ryotwari Sagar Sagar Island salt Santiniketan Secretary Settlement Operations settlers sharecroppers Shib Shankar Mitra Sir Daniel social South 24 Parganas story Sundarban Commissioner Sundarban Samagra Tebhaga Movement tenure tiger village W.W. Hunter West Bengal Westland worship zamindars