Kuntala Lahiri Dutt: 2 books
Dancing with the River
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of hybrid landscapes.” 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...
The Coal Nation
Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Social science research is emerging on a range of issues around large and small-scale mining, connecting them to broader social, cultural, political, historical and economic factors rather than purely measuring the environmental impacts of mining. Within this broader context of global scholarly attention...