Debjani Bhattacharyya. Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta. Studies in Environment and History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Illustrations, maps. 254 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42574-2.
Reviewed by Rohan D'Souza (Kyoto University)
Published on H-Water (March, 2019)
Commissioned by Aditya Ramesh (SOAS, London)