Some Aspects of Alluvial Land Reclamation Process in Bangladesh during the Colonial Rule

Abstract

This article aims at explaining in brief the reclamation process of alluvial land of Bangladesh during the British colonial rule. On the backdrop of the decline of land-man ratio and pressure of population growth, the reclamation of alluvial land became the only source of human settlement and agricultural operation. In the absence of any proper regulation illegal and forcible occupation of char land by the jotedars became the general order of the day during the British colonial rule.