The Bengal Delta

1. Introduction
Iftekhar Iqbal

2. Ecology and Agrarian Relations in the Nineteenth Century
Iftekhar Iqbal

3. Economy and Society: the Myth and Reality of ‘Sonar Bangla’
Iftekhar Iqbal

4. The Political Ecology of the Peasant: the Faraizi Movement between Revolution and Passive Resistance
Iftekhar Iqbal

5. Return of the Bhadralok: the Agrarian Environment and the Nation
Iftekhar Iqbal

6. The Railways and the Water Regime
Iftekhar Iqbal

7. Fighting with a Weed: the Water Hyacinth, the State and the Public Square
Iftekhar Iqbal

8. Between Food Availability Decline and Entitlement Exchange: an Ecological Prehistory of the Great Bengal Famine of 1943
Iftekhar Iqbal

9. Reflections
Iftekhar Iqbal

Keywords: History, Asian History, Geology, Economic History, History of Science, Environmental Economics, Modern History