River, Land and people of Bengal: Colonial encounter and its aftermath Sarkar Goutam Assistant Professor, Stage-3, Sewnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria College, Beldanga, Murshidabad *Author correspondence: Goutam Sarkar, Assistant Professor, Stage-3, Sewnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria College, Beldanga, Murshidabad. Email: g9sarkar@gmail.com
Online published on 5 August, 2019. Abstract u Bengal proper is a great plain lying between the Himalayan Mountains and that part of the sea which is called the Bay of Bengal. The most prominent feature of Bengal‘s landscape is the existence of innumerable rivers and streams both large and small, are connected together by a marvellous network of smaller rivers and streams, most of it is flooded with water for from three to six months in the year, nevertheless its agricultural yield is so large that it maintains a very large population in a state of comfort. During colonial period the exploitation of rivers and interference with their natural regime has crossed all reasonable limits leading to their steady degeneration. For seasonal lack of enough water it fails to maintain its channel as an efficient drainage system throughout the year in present time. As a result its bed gets gradually silted up, its channel is choked and it ultimately dies. Instead of nourishing they are now threatening man‘s life.s to decide whether to read the document in its entirety. The abstract Top Keywords Landscape, Water-streams, Prosperity, Exploitation, Future measure. Top |