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Book Summary
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
- ISBN-13
- 9789382993780
- Binding
- Hard Bound
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press India Pvt Ltd
- Publishing Date
- 2014-01-06
- Total Pages
- 294
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)
fictionfantasyyoung adultaward winning
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Book Summary
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