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Book Essays of a Lifetime

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sumit Sarkar
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2018-12-27
  • ISBN : 1438474318
  • Pages : 666 pages

Download or read book Essays of a Lifetime written by Sumit Sarkar and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes. For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: “Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument.” Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 1885–1947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkar’s finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest. “ here we see Sarkar grappling with his intellectual heritage, negotiating his own location within the new Marxist nationalist history of the period. Working within its frame, he pushes at the boundaries, disturbing neat classificatory schemes, resisting false historical comparisons, problematizing categories, and questioning linear narratives. The desire to explore contrary experiences and contradictory pictures is part of his process of questioning.” — Neeladri Bhattacharya

Book Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India

Download or read book Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India written by Ranabir Samaddar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India and its companion volume Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing a post-colonial democracy, particularly in the neo-liberal age, should be studied as the central question within the history of post-colonial democracy. The volumes offer hitherto unexplored analyses of governance — political and ideological aspects along with technological characteristics — in a historical framework. This volume discusses: ideas and issues at the core of governance in post-colonial India constitution, state-making and government formation the asymmetrical nature of the anti-colonial foundations of governance In breaking new ground in the study of what constitutes the political subject, these volumes will be indispensable to scholars, researchers and students of politics, public administration, development studies, South Asian studies and modern India.

Book Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India  1500 A D  to 1947 A D   pt 1  Selections from records  pt 2  Survey and settlement reports  pt 3  Gazetteers  pt 4  Acts and regulations

Download or read book Annotated Bibliography on the Economic History of India 1500 A D to 1947 A D pt 1 Selections from records pt 2 Survey and settlement reports pt 3 Gazetteers pt 4 Acts and regulations written by Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memory  Identity  Power

Download or read book Memory Identity Power written by Ranabir Samaddar and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society

Download or read book Journal of the Indian Anthropological Society written by Indian Anthropological Society and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bengal  Past   Present

Download or read book Bengal Past Present written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tribal Guerrillas

Download or read book Tribal Guerrillas written by Edward Duyker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using valuable field data, Duyker examines the historical roots of the Santal participation in the Naxalite movement, and the roles of traditional weapons, oral tradition, and clan and kinship in their participation.

Book Enclaves in a Peasant Society

Download or read book Enclaves in a Peasant Society written by Asim Kumar Chaudhuri and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work Relates To The Vast Tract Of Western Dooars Of Jalpaiguri District In Bengal Which Has Stagnated After 1911 And The Benefit Of Tea Industry Have Not Gone To The People Of The Areas. Has 5 Perceptive Chapters In Addition To 4 Appendices.

Book Land Problems of India

Download or read book Land Problems of India written by Radhakamal Mukerjee and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Change in Bengal Agrarian Society  C1760 1850

Download or read book Change in Bengal Agrarian Society C1760 1850 written by Ratnalekha Ray and published by New Delhi : Manohar. This book was released on 1979 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal  1875 1927

Download or read book Social Conflict and Political Unrest in Bengal 1875 1927 written by Rajat Kanta Ray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studying the social, political, and economic history of Bengal during 50 critical years, this book unravels the complex relationship between imperialism and nationalism in Calcutta and its hinterland. Here, Ray analyzes both the long-term goals and short-term parochial preoccupations of Bengali nationalists in their struggle against imperialism. He examines how well the Bengalis fared on the all-India platform, how and why Bengali nationalism became divided within the region, and the movement's ability to penetrate from elite Calcutta to the grassroots of provincial Bengali society. Throughout, Ray effectively demonstrates that the dynamics of political change in Bengal lay in the increasing conflict between the European commercial and administrative elite and the Indian business and professional groups before, during and after World War I.

Book Partition and the South Asian Diaspora

Download or read book Partition and the South Asian Diaspora written by Papiya Ghosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Negotiating nations 2. Claiming Pakistan 3. Resisting Hindutva 4. Redoing South Asia 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Book The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier  1204 1760

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 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among the finest contributions to South Asian scholarship to appear for some while.

Book The Ganga

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pranab Kumar Parua
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2010-01-12
  • ISBN : 9048131030
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The Ganga written by Pranab Kumar Parua and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From time immemorial the Bengal Delta had been an important maritime des- nation for traders from all parts of the world. The actual location of the port of call varied from time to time in line with the natural hydrographic changes. From the early decades of the second millennium AD, traders from the European con- nent also joined the traders from the Arab countries, who had been the Forerunners in maritime trading with India. Daring traders and fortune seekers from Denmark, Holland, Belgium and England arrived at different ports of call along the Hooghly river. The river had been, in the meantime, losing its pre-eminence as the main outlet channel of the sacred Ganga into the Bay of Bengal, owing to a shift of ?ow towards east near Rajmahal into the Padma, which had been so long, carried very small part of the large volume of ?ow. On a cloudy afternoon on August 24, 1690 the British seafarer Job Charnock rested his oars at Kolkata and started a new chapter in the life of a sleepy village, bordering the Sunderbans which was ‘a tangled region of estuaries, rivers and water courses, enclosing a vast number of islands of various shapes and sizes. ’ and infested with a large variety of wild animals. In the language of the British Nobel Laureate (1907) Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). ???? ???? Thus the midday halt of Charnock grew a city.

Book Forestry in Karnataka     a Journey of 150 Years

Download or read book Forestry in Karnataka a Journey of 150 Years written by DIPAK SARMAH and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book traces the history of forestry since the middle of the 19th century in the erstwhile territorial units that constitute the present state of Karnataka, in India. It provides glimpses of the forest policy and management of the British Indian government which had laid the foundations of scientific forestry in the Indian subcontinent. A chronological account of the development of national forest policies, plans, and strategies in post-independent India has also been given in the context of their impact on forest management in the states. The book dwells comprehensively on multifarious aspects of forestry including the challenges faced by a forester in a situation of increasing demand and shrinking forest. It highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the forest administration and recommends strategies to protect the remaining natural forest and to increase the tree cover everywhere to effectively confront the specter of environmental catastrophes facing the planet earth. The book has brought out the inseparable and intrinsic relationship of mutual interdependence between forest and water – two of the most important natural resources on which the future of mankind depends, and calls for urgent action. With detailed data, analysis, and inferences derived with an open mind, the book forms a reference document for the present and future foresters. Problems of the forestry sector in the developing world are similar. Although the book focuses on the forestry scenario in Karnataka, lessons learned and strategies recommended for forest conservation are relevant across a larger landscape, with similar challenges and problems.