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Colonial History and Partition Analysis

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Contents

List of Plates page vii


List of Maps and Figures xv
Preface to Second Edition xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Timeline xxi
Introduction xxix

part i the long view 1


1 A Land of Water and Silt 3
2 Jungle, Fields, Cities and States 11
3 A Region of Multiple Frontiers 24
4 The Delta as a Crossroads 43

part ii colonial encounters 53


5 From the Mughal Empire to the British Empire 55
6 British Legacies 63
7 A Closing Agrarian Frontier 82
8 Colonial Conflicts 93
9 Towards Partition 104
10 Partition 112
11 Population Exchange 121

Published online by Cambridge University Press

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