After victony on he bated of Pols! {Company had proceeded co turn Bengal in ty of British Unda, A century later all Kolkata (now the second ciy of the Britis Fuad become a Brita ses, The Bengal dclta be the world eesnomy, hut under political anc residents could not control. & feof ther be nial patronage, but for many without c toverlonds it ss 3 peti of hardship. ‘Ven he eke ee ‘ace, Wie ye xp onal poe Sal Koc md nd gel oa coe aoe Sc ronan ta ea ‘hen sar depp ‘he eieecnt oy ee 1 Sl 8 er ‘ola neha ‘com nt ce Ao ae cr og cs woe al Chap 00000 Ken hn fopinior eels sari eel cc ive n Or come a it i eal fod og cept! As ase gt cet comdel hans a Tanier cline ae proc. Lindon wee hy ep soci he cmfoabl Mexfeb elil Calvo ho fen ls apne sca nec ie gon be nea rn et pod gt arte kt une he po Be ‘Secreto ln Reming fr hal ‘von, sch a migA Hoty of Rade Yo esa are ands sd much ofthe Sundarban Wah a, Se Slesiens were now fas. runing out of ld. They councred ee rein: retin, up apvian eupur by meta same plo daring the ye) hur to ints fe) and uri thet consumpeion ‘fen sextoaly, by taking to rea eon Be ct aay pettaich w wie and sonic Bene seres! eH ed end velit or work soe ee, a) eae CS ss ay aN | | See am. | aga oma An, nt dr | and box ‘Nove the migra, ‘They began ‘epion as well = to Arakan, Asm and sa longterm tend, continu Ns tn he ne pet wo anconnon dane ek the Nodiipr in Noirs durin soe scan obey ele deg "tints euoen War dS et eat a ied ee wa eta ot‘ wand nro Mien nd ae 1 ng wag “ig dof Ba Hil pn Raney ore dpb Sr tei te on fn Ba inh of clang away the sabe ‘i tine he dy Bal la v suscee. thy planted pi ‘hind Gland aon ftp eos ‘youn Ne a enki pea ‘ht hd a dah Te oa le a as aed they liked so have labourers rig ne ihe Teh etl ne mc chee mm sia edu ru elon betwen the estan a he Gohargat nena, Nevis plc afi 38 possible o sce around him inorder to ensure both sl Bee ey aa by os Nan ae” hallo she village and None al become ther eae | diliion 10 emigration, Bengals culkivators intensified another portant strategy: high feriity. Unlike some other peasanries they did fot practise Feriliry contr om a large scale: che age of marriage f was extremely low, the proportion of unmartied adults was Agligible, contraception wss wncommon and adoption was not used extensively 0 ‘redistribute’ children. I the nineterth century high feproduction was an efletive way eo counter both high morality and Tandlord demands: ic ensused 3 regular expansion of the household's Tahour supply, which made it possible to cultivate more land and do so "more intensely. chereby increasing howschold income. Bengal’s popula ion was growing a the moderate rate of ahout 1 per cent a year, In the fu, however, the very success of this strategy became its undoing ‘had been developed ss. mens of saving off poverty gradually agrarian frontier dow because there were no b vided short-term gains che tte of growth begat tga ‘eve ht 1) millon people anaes gre he doe lipid lost sevenfold , ‘Nowadays Bangadch i ly smal ss, Rough the seo loner popaacon a ‘epaous county on ean alate world 124 for Asia and 345 for India” For ‘making do with eremendously diminished Today’ each Bangladeshi has less than gare her forebears enjoyed a bundred years gas by predictions cere will be 350 million Bangle tenth (Figure 72.