People and life on the chars of south asia:

By:

Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala

Contributor(s):

Samanta, Gopa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Foundation Books, 2014.Description: xx, 272pISBN:

9789382993780

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

304.2095414 LAH

Summary: With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of hybrid landscapes.” Focusing on charsthe part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengalthe 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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Includes index.

With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of hybrid landscapes.” Focusing on charsthe part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengalthe 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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