The historical framework of A Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal, 1700-1950 deals with three thematically distinct periods-the decline and fall of the Nawabi regime in Bengal and the remaking of the polity of Bengal in volume I (1700-93); the reawakening of Bengal in volume …
Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a western medical project originating in eighteenth-century Germany, was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in British Bengal. India went on to become the home of the largest population of users of homoeopathic …
Rakesh Batabyal discusses the years immediately following the Bengal Famine of 1943 and shows how they witnessed the consolidation of communal ideologies culminating in the riots of 1946 in Calcutta and the violence in Noakhali, 1946-47.
"With its meticulous and extensive use of archival data and secondary sources and presenting a fresh perspective on understanding communalism in present-day India, this book will be of immense value to students and scholars of history, political science and sociology, especially…
"With its meticulous and extensive use of archival data and secondary sources and presenting a fresh perspective on understanding communalism in present-day India, this book will be of immense value to students and scholars of history, political science and sociology, especially…
In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of several protracted violent conflicts and the eruption of ethnic and communal violence in countries such as Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. Riots and Victims challenges the popular academic interpretation of such events a…
In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of several protracted violent conflicts and the eruption of ethnic and communal violence in countries such as Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka. Riots and Victims challenges the popular academic interpretation of such events a…
In examining the nature of the interaction between institutional politics as represented by the Congress and popular politics in Bengal between 1919 and 1939, this book is a significant and original contribution to current research in the field.
In examining the nature of the interaction between institutional politics as represented by the Congress and popular politics in Bengal between 1919 and 1939, this book is a significant and original contribution to current research in the field.
In examining the nature of the interaction between institutional politics as represented by the Congress and popular politics in Bengal between 1919 and 1939, this book is a significant and original contribution to current research in the field.