Bengal, rethinking history
Subtitle: essays in historiography
By: edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
Contributors: Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śekhara.
Series: ICBS publication ;; no. 29
Publisher: Manohar Publishers & Distributors; International Centre for Bengal Studies; Manohar Publishers and Distributors
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Bengal (India) -- Historiography.
Description: Contributed articles.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: East Indian fortunes: merchants, companies, and conquest, 1700-1800: an exercise in hitoriography / Lakshmi Subramanian; title: Peasant and tribal movements in colonial Bengal: a historiographic overview / Sanjukta Das Gupta; title: Bengal Fishers and fisheries: a historiographic essay / Bob Pokrant, Peter Reeves, and John McGuire; title: Towards a "total history" of Bengal labour / Arjan De Haan; title: Great men waking: paradigms in the historiography of the Bengal renaissance / Brian A. Hatcher; title: Being and becoming a Muslim: a historiographic perspective on the search for Muslim identity in Bengal / Asim Roy; title: Differentiation and transience: history of caste, power, and identity in Bengal / Sekhar Bandopadhyay; title: Histories of betrayal: patriachy, class, and nation / Samita Sen; title: Between monolith and fragment: a note on the historiography of nationalism in Bengal / Sugata Bose; title: The decline, review, and fall of Bhadralok influence in the 1940s: a historiographic review / Joya Chatterji.