Mischievous Rivers and Evil Shoals
The English East India Company and the Colonial Resource Regime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20044546 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rohan D’souza (0000-0002-4049-2017, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 128-146 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | East India Company and the Natural World (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9781137427274_7 |
| OpenAlex | W2346988204 |
| ISBN | 9781137427274 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Increasingly, in the twilight years of Empire, Bengal's rivers were declared to be an indisputable 'water problem'.1 For the official colonial imagination, the delta's fluvial arms were too temperamental and snaked their way across the capacious flood plains only to wastefully empty 'millions of tons' of their watery burden into the Bay of Bengal. Usually a swollen rage during the monsoon and an irrelevant trickle by the winter, such hydrographic quirks, it was authoritatively held, regularly depressed and enfeebled the Bengal peasant.KeywordsColonial RuleEast India CompanyBengal DeltaPublic Work DepartmentCompany AdministrationThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
Ancient history · Archaeology · Bay · BENGAL · Cartography · Colonialism · Empire · Flood myth · Geography · Hydrography · Monsoon · Peasant · Shoal · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Geology · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Oceanography
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |