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A village in a reclaimed area of the Sundarbans. Drawing by Frederic Peter Layard following an original sketch of 1839. Source: British Library (2016).

A village in a reclaimed area of the Sundarbans. Drawing by Frederic Peter Layard following an original sketch of 1839. Source: British Library (2016).

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... early Hindu settlers were fishers for centuries, but the Muslims introduced a cultural penchant for crop agriculture. Figure 5 portrays a village in a reclaimed area of the Sundarbans. During the Middle Ages, the whole area of the Sundarbans was depopulated significantly; several reasons have been forwarded behind this including earthquakes and natural calamities that led to a sudden subsidence of the land (Chakrabarti 2009, O'Malley 1908, attacks by Portuguese and Arakanese pirates (Sarkar 2012), and a hostile environment (Beveridge 1876, Ghosh et al. 2015, Hunter 1876). ...