The Unquiet River
A Biography of the Brahmaputra
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ISBN:
9780199468119
Publication date:
22/10/2019
Hardback
620 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1395.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199468119
Publication date:
22/10/2019
Hardback
620 pages
Arupjyoti Saikia
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,First major history of an Indian river, river displacing the histories of land, reimagining the history of Assam
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Arupjyoti Saikia
Description
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.
Professor Arupjyoti Saikia, Professor in History and Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Endowment Chair on Assam History, IIT Guwahati
Arupjyoti Saikia is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Guwahati, India
Arupjyoti Saikia
Table of contents
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
Arupjyoti Saikia
Description
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.
Professor Arupjyoti Saikia, Professor in History and Suryya Kumar Bhuyan Endowment Chair on Assam History, IIT Guwahati
Arupjyoti Saikia is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in IIT Guwahati, India
Table of contents
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
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