Evolution of rural settlements in West Bengal (1850-1985) (Record no. 26927)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02190nam a22001817a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 8170350565 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 307.72095414 |
| Item number | SEN-E |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Sen, Sukla |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Evolution of rural settlements in West Bengal (1850-1985) |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Sukla Sen |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Daya Publishing House |
| Year of publication | 1989 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xx, 168p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The alteration of the physical condition of a region through natural processes forces men to give up their age-old occupations and to take up new ones. This is followed by a corresponding redistribution of population. The latter phenomenon is also motivated by a change in the economy of the region, through a change in the mode of production. It is needless to say that rivers are of vital importance in a deltaic land of their own creation. The rivers of the Bengal delta were responsible for a particular form of economy of her people who concentrated along the banks of the rivers. But deterioration of the river channels coupled with human interference brought in a number of problems including agricultural decline, beginning of malaria fever, periodic growth and decay of population and tendency of clustering of population away from river banks to sites along railways and roads. The moribund Ganga delta was selected for the study due to its very special settlement problems. In this moribund Ganga delta when the land-building activity of the rivers ceased, there set in a period of physical stagnation, a period of transition witnessed the worsening of the salubrious climate with consequent downward trend in population density and decline in agriculture in comparison to earlier periods (pre-1850s). After the lapse of a century, the study area suddenly experienced a cataclysmic increase of population which are not due to any improvement in ecological situation, but owing to mass immigration from the then East Pakistan (Bangladesh), which was followed by a larger cropped area and other manifestations of economic development in post-independence period. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Human settlements |
| Geographic subdivision | Ganges River Delta (Bangladesh and India) |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Rural Development |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sen, Jyotirmoy |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Accession Number | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| NASSDOC Library | NASSDOC Library | 01/12/2021 | Gritis | 307.72095414 SEN-E | 51803 | 15/11/2021 | 0.00 | 01/12/2021 | Books |