Download or read book Bakarganj written by James Charles Jack and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Calcutta Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statutory Rules and Orders Other Than Those of a Local Personal Or Temporary Character written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Imperial Disaster written by Benjamin Kingsbury and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The storm came on the night of 31 October. It was a full moon, and the tides were at their peak; the great rivers of eastern Bengal were full of monsoon rain. In the early hours the inhabitants of the coast and islands were overtaken by an immense wave from the Bay of Bengal -- a wall of water that reached a height of 40 feet in some places. The wave swept away everything in its path, drowning around 215,000 people. At least another 100,000 died in the cholera epidemic and famine that followed. It was the worst calamity of its kind in recorded history. Such events are often described as "natural disasters." Kingsbury turns that interpretation on its head, showing that the cyclone of 1876 was not simply a "natural" event, but one shaped by all-too-human patterns of exploitation and inequality -- by divisions within Bengali society, and the enormous disparities of political and economic power that characterized British rule on the subcontinent. With Bangladesh facing rising sea levels and stronger, more frequent storms, there is every reason to revisit this terrible calamity. An Imperial Disaster is troubling but essential reading: history for an age of climate change.
Download or read book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier 1204 1760 written by Richard M. Eaton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations. Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.
Download or read book Resolution Reviewing the Reports on the Working of the District and Local Boards in Bengal written by Bengal (India) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government of India Act 1935 written by Great Britain. Indian Delimitation Committee and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology Archaeology and History written by Bradley J. Parker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributors—historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of Egypt’s Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or “creolization,” and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in today’s world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This book’s interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.
Download or read book Resolution Reviewing the Reports on the Working of the District Boards in Bengal During the Year written by Bengal (India). Local Self-Government Department and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Services of Gazetted and Other Officers written by Bengal (India). Office of the Accountant General and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bengal Local Statutory Rules and Orders 1912 written by Bengal (India). and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Races of Rice in India written by Govt. Of India and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable alphabetical index to the literature on races of rice in India was compiled to further the study of a subject, the very enormousness of which had hitherto prevented workers from taking it up. Obviously it is not a critical index, but a guide to the literature. For that reason care has been taken in quoting from references that are short, to give the actual words as far as possible. All possible sources of information were scanned from 1896-1910 to collect these about 9000 races of rice in India which then included present territories of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Burma also. All the agricultural scientists, particularly agronomists and plant breeders, would certainly like to have copy of this great reference book on their tables for constant day-to-day reference.
Download or read book Terrorism in Bengal Origin growth and activities of the organisations like Anushilan Samiti Jugantar Party Dacca Shri Sangha and other such organisations written by Amiya K. Samanta and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Police Administration in the Bengal Presidency written by Bengal (India). Police Dept and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pakistan As A Peasant Utopia written by Taj Ul-islam Hashmi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During a substantial stay in some East Bengal villages in the summer of 1971, when East Pakistan was in the traumatic process of being transformed into Bangladesh, it first dawned upon me that peasants were not stupid, devoid of political consciousness. Discussions with different types of peasants revealed that at least the upper echelons were aware of the implications of the liberation struggle for Bangladesh and the superpower involvement in it. Richard Nixon and Indira Gandhi were familiar names. Ordinary peasants often quoted the Bengali news readers and commentators of the BBC world service and the Voice of America. Well-to-do peasants who owned transistor radio sets regularly tuned into the British, American and Indian radio stations. Many inquisitive and worried peasants asked me (then a fresh graduate from Dhaka University) how their cherished Sonar Bangla (golden Bengal) would improve their socio-economic conditions. Many peasants also took part in the liberation struggle as members of the Mukti Bahini or freedom fighters. Almost everyone, with a few exceptions who collaborated with the Pakistan armed forces, was a keen supporter of Bangladesh. After the emergence of Bangladesh, things did not change to the expectations of the masses, but rather deteriorated so much that Henry Kissinger is said to have coined the phrase ''bottomless basket"" as a denotation for Bangladesh, because of the rampant corruption of a big section of the Bengali bourgeoisie at that time. I was provoked to write the history of the peasants' glorious role in the Liberation Struggle which was being overshadowed by claims and counter-claims of heroism and sacrifice by members of the privileged, parasitical urban elites. This work may be regarded as a prelude to the history of the freedom struggle that eventually led to the creation of Bangladesh. This is an attempt to shed light on the peasant politics, almost synonymous with Muslim politics in the region, during the significant period between 1920 and 194 7 when East Bengal was going through the political process that culminated in the creation of East Pakistan in 194 7."
Download or read book Living with the Weather written by Piya Srinivasan and published by Yoda Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does climate change intensify social cleavages in new configurations of knowledge and power? How does development respond to its own contradictions in such scenarios? How do extreme weather events inform population movement and challenge existing definitions of borders and citizenship? Who pays the heaviest price? Living with the Weather addresses these pressing questions by highlighting and exploring the social, economic, political, and spatial dimensions of climate disaster in South Asia. Through empirical research, reporting and documentation of the climate crisis in the countries of South Asia, along with a deep dive into the Indian Sundarbans, the book calls attention to the intermeshed predicaments the people of the subcontinent face while bearing the brunt of climate change In doing so, it seeks to enrich our understanding of how climate change transforms everyday life. It makes visible the effects of natural events, the outcomes of political decisions, how disaster and rehabilitation are interpreted by states, how resistances are staged in the form of mobility, and how dispossession and despair are embodied and articulated.
