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BL
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582347
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b411566
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| Main Entry
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Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala,1956-
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| Title & Author
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Dancing with the river : : people and life on the Chars of South Asia /\ Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta
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| Series Statement
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Yale agrarian studies series
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xx, 272 pages :: maps ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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9780300188301
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: 0300188307
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index
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| Contents
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introducing Chars: Where Lands Float on Water -- ch. 2 Charjage: A Char Rises -- ch. 3 Controlling the River to Free Up Land -- ch. 4 Bhitaro Bahir Katha: Inside and Outside Stories of Chars and the Mainland -- ch. 5 Silent Footfalls: Peopling the Chars -- ch. 6 Living with Risk: Beyond Vulnerability/Security -- ch. 7 Livelihoods Defined by Water: Nadir Sathe Baas -- ch. 8 Living on Chars, Drifting with Rivers
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| Abstract
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This book offers 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 land, people, and people's ways of life
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Human ecology-- South Asia
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River life-- South Asia
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Human beings-- Effect of environment on-- South Asia
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South Asia, Rural conditions
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South Asia, Economic conditions
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South Asia, Social life and customs
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South Asia, Social conditions
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| LC Classification
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GF661.L45 2013
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| Added Entry
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Samanta, Gopa
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