Study with reference to Barddhamān District, India.
Interview with the communist and political leader of West Bengal, India, chiefly on the 1930-1940, political situation in the state
"This volume explores the process of social changes which unfolded in rural society of early medieval Bengal, especially the formation of stratified land relations and occupational groups which later got systematised as jātis. One of the first books to systematically reconstruct…
Part of the 'Occasional Papers' series of CSSSC, this essay is a brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal. it posits that this consciousness is not a mechanical outcome of the capitalist mode of …
It is widely believed that, because of its exceptional social development, the caste system in colonial Bengal differed considerably from the rest of India. Through a study of the complex interplay between caste, culture and power, this book convincingly demonstrates that Bengal…
"Against the backdrop of current analyses of colonial Bengal - a majority of which examine the production of colonial culture - this book successfully poses questions that interrogate the centrality of culture and of education as one of its distinctive markers."--BOOK JACKET.