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People and Life on the Chars of South Asia: Dancing with the River
by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta (Author),
Cambridge University Press India Pvt Ltd (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
About the Book: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia: Dancing with the
River
With this book, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse
into the microcosmic world of hybrid environments. 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
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9789382993780
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Cambridge University Press India Pvt Ltd
Publishing Date 2014-01-06
Total Pages 294