The Unquiet River

A Biography of the Brahmaputra

Professor Arupjyoti Saikia (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

602 Seiten

2019
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-946811-9 (ISBN)

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This book, by offering a longer history and an environmental history of the Brahmaputra, tells the story of the making of the river, its floodplains and the human lives around it.

The unruly Brahmaputra has always been an agent in shaping both the landscape of its valley and the livelihoods of its inhabitants. But how much do we know of this river's rich past?
Historian Arupjyoti Saikia's biography of the Brahmaputra reimagines the layered history of Assam with the unquiet river at the centre. The book combines a range of disciplinary scholarship to unravel the geological forces as well as human endeavour which have shaped the river into what it is today. Wonderfully illuminated with archival detail and interwoven with narratives and striking connections, the book allows the reader to imagine the Brahmaputra's course in history.
This evocative and compelling book will be interesting reading for anyone trying to understand the past and the present of a river confronted by the twenty-first century's ambitious infrastructural designs to further re-engineer the river and its landscape.

Arupjyoti Saikia is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Guwahati, India

Acknowledgements
Note on Geography, Spelling, Illustrations, and Referencing Style
List of figures and tables
Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 1: The River and Its Floodplain Environment

Chapter 2: Life in a Floodplain Environment

Chapter 3: Boats on the River

Chapter 4: The Ebb and Flow of Riverine Pursuits

Part 2

Chapter 5: Enter the Steamer

Chapter 6: Redesigning an Enigmatic River

Part 3

Chapter 7: Unruly Landscapes, Fluid Geographies

Chapter 8: Tea Plants Move to the Uplands

Chapter 9: Jute in the Floodplains

Chapter 10: In the Time of Earthquakes

Part 4

Chapter 11: Reining in the Recalcitrant River

Chapter 12: The Nation's River

Afterword
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	10.02.2020
Zusatzinfo	maps and photos (c. 20)
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 225 mm
Gewicht	810 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-19-946811-7 / 0199468117
ISBN-13	978-0-19-946811-9 / 9780199468119
Zustand	Neuware