Download or read book The Bomb in Bengal written by Peter Heehs and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bomb in Bengal is a narrative history of the revolutionary movement in Bengal from its origins around 1900 to the close of its first phase in 1910. Many books and articles have been written about this period, some so uncritically laudatory that legend has taken the place of fact. Heehs provides a more accurate account than any found in previous narratives and also corrects mistakes made by academic historians. But he has succeeded in making his book as vivid and fast-moving as the events themselves. Heehs' approach is nationalist in focus, narrative in form and chronological in presentation. By basing himself entirely on primary sources, he avoids the documentary weakness of commemorative histories. He shows that the nationalist approach still has much to reveal about how men and women responded to the challenges of colonial rule. While giving sufficient attention to the social, economic or political background, he is concerned mainly with presenting the factual data in a narrative that both academic and general readers will find accessible, interesting and perhaps even inspiring. Heehs gives special attention to two major problems in the study of the freedom movement that are of contemporary relevance: the relationship between revolution and religion and the relative importance of violent and non-violent methods. He shows that the violent revolutionaries of the turn of the century had considerable impact on the course of the freedom movement, but that their ideals and methods differed significantly from those of today's terrorists.
Download or read book Policing Bengali Terrorism in India and the World written by Michael Silvestri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of imperial intelligence and policing directed against revolutionaries in the Indian province of Bengal from the first decade of the twentieth century through the beginning of the Second World War. Colonial anxieties about the 'Bengali terrorist' led to the growth of an extensive intelligence apparatus within Bengal. This intelligence expertise was in turn applied globally both to the policing of Bengali revolutionaries outside India and to other anticolonial movements which threatened the empire. The analytic framework of this study thus encompasses local events in one province of British India and the global experiences of both revolutionaries and intelligence agents. The focus is not only on the British intelligence officers who orchestrated the campaign against the revolutionaries, but also on their interactions with the Indian officers and informants who played a vital role in colonial intelligence work, as well as the perspectives of revolutionaries and their allies, ranging from elite anticolonial activists to subaltern maritime workers.
Download or read book Harbart written by Nabarun Bhattacharya and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beloved cult novel—about a young man who makes a business of relaying messages from the dead—is now in a sparkling English translation Poor, poor, hard-luck Herbert Sarkar: born into a fancy Calcutta family but cursed from birth (his philandering movie director father is killed in a car crash and his mother dies soon after, when he’s still just a baby), he is taken as an orphan into his uncle’s house, only to fall further and further down the family totem pole. Despite good looks (“Hollywood-ish, Leslie Howard-ish)” and native talents, he is scorned by all but his kind aunt. Poor Herbert: so lovable but so little loved. Cheated of his inheritance, living on the roof in cast-off clothing, he pines for love, but all is woe: his own nephews beat him up. At twenty, however, he suddenly seems to possess the gift of speaking with the dead. Herbert is bathed in glory. From less than zero to starry heights—what an apotheosis. The wheel of fortune turns again, all too soon... Legendary, scathingly satiric, wildly energetic, deeply tender, Herbert is an Indian masterwork.
Download or read book Hungry Bengal written by Janam Mukherjee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.
Download or read book Gentlemanly Terrorists written by Durba Ghosh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India.
Download or read book Imperial Japan and National Identities in Asia 1895 1945 written by Robert Cribb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1895 and 1945, Japan was heavily engaged in other parts of Asia, first in neighbouring Korea and northeast Asia, later in southern China and Southeast Asia. During this period Japanese ideas on the nature of national identities in Asia changed dramatically. At first Japan discounted the significance of nationalism, but in time Japanese authorities came to see Asian nationalisms as potential allies, especially if they could be shaped to follow Japanese patterns. At the same time, the ways in which other Asians thought of Japan also changed. Initially many Asians saw Japan as a useful but distant model, but with the rise of Japanese political power, this distant admiration turned into both cooperation and resistance. This volume includes chapters on India, Tibet, Siberia, Mongolia, Korea, Manchukuo, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Download or read book Account of the Revolutionary Movement in Bengal written by Hem Chandra Kanungo and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly anecdotes of revolutionary from Bengal, previously published in a serial with title Banglaya Biplab Kahini, in Bengali.
Download or read book Full Authentic Report of the Tilak Trial written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Alipore Bomb Case written by Noorul Hoda and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In lieu of the rising political consciousness and opposition to British Raj in Bengal in the late nineteenth century, by 1902, Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) saw the emergence of secret societies that aimed at a violent overthrow of British rule in India, of which Aurobindo Ghose and his brother Brindra Kumar Ghose were among the strongest proponents, leading the youth of Bengal. On 30 April 1908, two teenage revolutionaries—Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki—hurled a bomb at a carriage in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, in an attempt to assassinate Douglas Kingsford, who had gained notoriety among Bengali nationalists. Forty-nine were accused and 206 witnesses appeared in court, and young lawyer, Chittaranjan Das, who would later become a major figure in the independence movement, appeared for the defence. The judgment was finally delivered by Judge Beachcroft on 6 May 1909, and the case came to be recorded as one of the most sensational trials in the history of Indian independence movement! The Alipore Bomb Case: A Historic Pre-Independence Trial by Noorul Hoda accounts the same, and the contribution of intellectual revolutionaries like Aurobindo Ghose and his brother, as well as stalwarts like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, in the nationalist struggle of a colonised India aspiring complete freedom from the oppressive British rule.
Download or read book Thenafricavil Gandhi written by ராமச்சந்திர குஹா / Ramachandra Guha and published by Kizhakku Pathippagam. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "தமிழில்: சிவசக்தி சரவணண் அதிகாரபூர்வமான அரசுப் பதவி எதையும் வகித்ததில்லை. ஆயுதம் எதையும் தரித்ததில்லை. பண பலம், படை பலம் இரண்டும் இல்லை. இருந்தும் அந்த மெலிந்த, எளிமையான இளம் வழக்கறிஞரின் பின்னால் ஒரு தேசமே அணிதிரண்டு நின்றது. காந்தி தன்னைக் கண்டறிந்தது தென்னாப்பிரிக்காவில். பிற்-காலத்-தில் வெற்றிகரமாக அவர் பிரயோகித்த போராட்ட வழிமுறையை அவர் தென்னாப்பிரிக்காவில்தான் கண்டறிந்து, கூர்தீட்டிக்கொண்டார். காந்தியின் அரசியல் சிந்தனைகள், மதம் பற்றிய பார்வை, அறம் சார்ந்த விழுமியங்கள் என அனைத்துக்குமான அடிப்படைகள் தென்னாப்பிரிக்காவில் உருப்பெற்றுவிட்டன. காந்தி குறித்து இதுவரை வெளிவந்துள்ள நூல்கள் அனைத்-திலுமிருந்து குஹாவின் இந்தப் புத்தகம் மாறுபடுகிறது. இந்தியா, இங்கிலாந்து, தென்னாப்பிரிக்கா முதலான நாடுகளில் உள்ள ஆவணக் காப்பகங்களிலிருந்து பல புதிய ஆதாரங்களைத் திரட்டி மிக விரிவான ஒரு தளத்தில் ஒருங்கிணைத்து இந்நூல் எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளது. பிரிட்டிஷ் சாம்ராஜ்ஜியத்துக்கு எதிராக காந்தி பிற்காலத்தில் தொடுத்த போருக்கான ஆதாரப்புள்ளி தென்னாப்பிரிக்காதான் என்பதை ராமச்சந்திர குஹா அசாதாரணமான முறையில் இதில் நிறுவியுள்ளார். காந்தியின் அரசியல் வாழ்வோடு அதிகம் அறியப்படாத அவருடைய தனிப்பட்ட வாழ்வும் பிரம்மாண்டமாக விவரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. காந்தியின் தொகுக்கப்பட்ட படைப்புகளில் இல்லாத பல அரிய தகவல்களும் இந்நூலில் இடம்பெற்றுள்ளன. உலகம் முழுவதிலுமிருந்து பாராட்டுகளைப் பெற்றிருக்கும் ராமச்சந்திர குஹாவின் Gandhi Before India நூலின் அதிகாரபூர்வமான தமிழாக்கம் இது."
Download or read book IDEAS BOMBS and BULLETS written by Adam Yamey and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This is a true tale of bombs, guns, lawyers, patriots, philosophers, revolutionaries, and scholars. It concerns a little known part of the history of India's long struggle for independence. *A large Victorian house stands in a residential street in the north London suburb of Highgate. Between 1905 and 1910, it was known as ?India House?, and was a meeting place and hostel for Indian students, many of whom wished to help liberate India from centuries of British domination. *In the 19th and 20th centuries before India's independence, many young Indians came to England to be educated. This is the story of a few of them, who came to Britain in the early 20th century, and then risked sacrificing their freedom, prospects, and lives by becoming involved in India's freedom struggle. *This book describes the true adventurous exploits of members of Highgate's India House (including VD Savarkar, Madan Lal Dhingra, and VVS Aiyar) and its history.
Download or read book The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration written by Sebastian Raj Pender and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire which embodied the central tenets of sacrifice, fortitude, and military prowess that underpinned Britain's imperial project. Since independence, however, these sites have been rededicated in honour of the 'First War of Independence' and are thus sacred to the memory of those who revolted against colonial rule, rather than those who saved it. The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration tells the story of these and other commemorative landscapes and uses them as prisms through which to view over 150 years of Indian history. Based on extensive archival research from India and Britain, Sebastian Raj Pender traces the ways in which commemoration responded to the demands of successive historical moments by shaping the events of 1857 from the perspective of the present. By telling the history of India through the transformation of mnemonic space, this study shows that remembering the past is always a political act.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism written by Carola Dietze and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a re-evaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The volume presents terrorism as a historically specific form of political violence that was generated by modern Western culture and then transported around the globe, where it interacted with and was transformed in accordance with local conditions. It offers cogent arguments and well-documented case studies that support a reading of terrorism as a modern phenomenon, as well as sustained analyses of the challenges involved in the application of the theories and practices of modernity and terrorism to non-Western parts of the world, both for historical actors and academic commentators. The volume presents an overview of terrorism's antecedents in the pre-modern world, analyzes the emergence of terrorism in the West, and presents a series of case studies from non-Western parts of the world that together constitute terrorism's global reception history. Essays cover a broad range of topics from tyrannicide in ancient Greek political culture, the radical resistance movement against Roman rule in Judea, the invention of terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States, anarchist networks in France, Argentina, and China, imperial terror in Colonial Kenya, anti-colonial violence in India, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, and the German Autumn, to right-wing, religious and eco-terrorism, as well as terrorism's entanglements with science, technology, media, literature and art. Keywords: terrorism studies, terrorism, history of terrorism, history of violence, radicalism, global history, transnational history, international history, modernity, modernization, modernism"--
Download or read book Tantra written by Hugh B. Urban and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tantra seemingly combines sexuality, sensual pleasure, and the full range of physical experience with the religious life and has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be.
Download or read book An International History of Terrorism written by Jussi M. Hanhimäki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to provide readers with the tools to understand the historical evolution of terrorism and counterterrorism over the past 150 years. In order to appreciate the contemporary challenges posed by terrorism it is necessary to look at its evolution, at the different phases it has gone through, and the transformations it has experienced. The same applies to the solutions that states have come up with to combat terrorism: the nature of terrorism changes but still it is possible to learn from past experiences even though they are not directly applicable to the present. This book provides a fresh look at the history of terrorism by providing in-depth analysis of several important terrorist crises and the reactions to them in the West and beyond. The general framework is laid out in four parts: terrorism prior to the Cold War, the Western experience with terrorism, non-Western experiences with terrorism, and contemporary terrorism and anti-terrorism. The issues covered offer a broad range of historical and current themes, many of which have been neglected in existing scholarship; it also features a chapter on the waves phenomenon of terrorism against its international background. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, political violence, international history, security studies and IR.
Download or read book The Literary Works of Ranganathan Magadi written by Ranganathan Magadi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-13 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'THE LITERARY WORKS OF RANGANATHAN MAGADI' CONTAINS FOUR WORKS,NAMELY1 ENCOUNTER WITH A TERRORIST-A NOVEL2 TWILIGHT ZONE-AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES3 INDIA RISES IN THE WEST-BIOGRAPHIES4 BOUQUET-ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
Download or read book Revolutionary Pamphlets Propaganda and Political Culture in Colonial Bengal written by Shukla Sanyal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It demonstrates the effectiveness of pamphlets as a medium of propaganda within the context of political life in colonial Bengal.
