The Sundarbans: Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788187358350
Length
212p., 10 Illustrations; Maps; Glossary; Index; 24cm.
Subjects
The lower deltaic Bengal, the Sundarbans has always had a life of its own, unique in its distinctive natural aspect and social development. Geographical and ecological evidence indicates that most of the area used to be once covered with dense, impenetrable jungle even as patches of cultivation sprang intermittently into life and then disappeared. A continuous struggle ensued between man and nature, as portrayed in the punthi literature that thrived in lower ...
