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Dancing with the River

People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2013

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With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal—the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgments

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    Abbreviations

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    Chapter 1. Introducing Chars

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    Chapter 2. Char Jage

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    Chapter 3. Controlling the River to Free Up Land

    51
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    Chapter 4. Bhitar o Bahir Katha

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    Chapter 5. Silent Footfalls

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    Chapter 6. Living with Risk

    135
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    Chapter 7. Livelihoods Defined by Water

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    Chapter 8. Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers

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    Appendix

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    Notes

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    Glossary

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    References

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    Index

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June 25, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780300189575
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This book is in the series
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
This book is in the series
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300189575
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