Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies) (Yale Agrarian Studies (YUP))

by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta

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An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" and their inhabitants

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 land, people, and people's ways of life.

  • ISBN10 0300188307
  • ISBN13 9780300188301
  • Publish Date 25 June 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 296
  • Language English