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This book details the evolution of Bengali culture (in both Bangladesh and West Bengal) since antiquity and argues for its modernization. Originally peripheral to Hindu civilization based in North India, Bengali culture was subjected to various forms of Sanskritization. Centuries of invasions (12041757) resulted most notably in the Islamization of Bengal. Often there were conflicts between Sanskritization and Islamization. Later colonization of Bengal by Britain (1757) led to a process of Anglicization, which created a new middle class in Bengal that, in turn, created a form of elitism among the Bengali Hindu upper caste. After British rule ended (1947), Bengali culture lost its elitist status in South Asia and has undergone severe marginalization. Political instability and economic insufficiency, as reflected by many quantitative and qualitative indicators, are common and contribute to pervasive unemployment, alienation, vigilantism, and instability in the entire region. A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh and West Bengal is appropriate not only for Bengali intellectuals and scholars but for sociologists, political scientists, cultural anthropologists, historians, and others interested in a case study of how and why a given culture becomes derailed from its path toward modernization. ... Read more

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From the author: Temporal and spatial patterns of damage to rice crops in Bangladesh resulting from river flooding are analyzed countrywide for the period 1962 to 1988 and at the district level from 1967 to 1988. Floods annually damaged approximately 4 percent of total rice production, but districts varied markedly in flood-related crop losses. Absolute magnitude of these losses over time may not justify expensive and controversial flood-control initiatives currently being implemented in Bangladesh.

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Title: Flood damage to rice crop in Bangladesh.
Author: Bimal Kanti Paul
Publication: The Geographical Review (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1993
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: v83Issue: n2Page: p150(10)

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