Author: Bratindra Nath MukherjeePublisher:
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Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Early Historical Perspective of North Bengal
Author: Bratindra Nath MukherjeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Reflections on the History of North Bengal
Author: The History of Bengal
Author: Ramesh Chandra MajumdarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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European Trade and Colonial Conquest
Author: Biplab DasguptaPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843310287
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This first of three volumes focuses on the evolution of Bengal's economy and society over the entire pre-colonial period beginning from pre-historic days. There is no documented, authentic history of Bengal. Indeed, more of the early history of India can be learned from the writings of other nationals. Yet even this material is very much related to chronologies of regimes and local to urban settlements and centres of trade. There remains little or no information on the villages where the vast majority lived and still live. Furthermore, until this work, little or no consideration has been given to the hugely influential period between Vasco de Gama's journey to India in 1498 and the battle of Palashi in 1757, a period in which the Mughal Empire held political power while the English, Dutch, French and Danes and other European nations grasped and held on to economic power. Much has been written on the Mughal Empire, but little of the role of the European trading companies in the two and a half centuries preceding Clive's victory. This book addresses that void and seeks also to explore the political, social and historical context in Bengal that facilitated the transfer of power into European hands. Given such a lack of source information, the author examines oral history, carried from generation to generation, recognizing their fallibility, but using those histories to corroborate what is known from other sources - from archaeological findings (coins, inscriptions, copper plates) through (invariably biased or localized) accounts from travellers, to economic, agricultural and ecological factors - relating them to known chronological events to provide a well-rounded history and, indeed, a study that uncovers the roots of the many issues in the colonial and post-colonial eras.
History of North Bengal
Author: History of the Relations of the Government with the Hill Tribes of the North-East Frontier of Bengal
Author: Alexander MackenziePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108046061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
An extensive and authoritative report from 1884, written by a civil servant in Bengal during the British colonisation of India.
Approaches to History
Author: Sabyasachi BhattacharyaPublisher: Primus Books
ISBN: 9380607172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
History as a social science is arguably more self-reflective than associated disciplines in that family. Other social scientists seem to see little reason to look beyond the paradigm they are developing in the present times. Historians on the other hand, tend to depend on the cumulative process of the development of their craft and the fund of accumulated knowledge. Yet, while this is acknowledged in the practice of research, Historiography in itself as a subject of study has rarely found its place in the syllabi of Indian universities. Knowledge of Historiography is taken for granted when a scholar plunges into research. In an attempt to address this lacuna, the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has planned a series of volumes on Historiography comprising articles by subject specialists commissioned by the ICHR. The first volume in the series, Approaches to History: Essays in Indian Historiography brings to the readers the first fruits of that endeavour. While the essays encompass areas of research presently at the frontiers of new research, scholars will also find the bibliographies accompanying the essays of significant appeal.
The Archaeology of Early Medieval and Medieval South Asia
Author: Swadhin SenPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000780759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This book looks at the ways in which archaeological methods have been used in debates concerning the early medieval and medieval periods in South Asia. Despite the incorporation and use of archaeological data to corroborate historical narratives, the theories and methods of archaeology are largely ignored in and excluded from the dominating, institutionalized, and hegemonic disciplinary discourses. The volume offers contesting insights, polemical narratives, and new data from archaeological contexts to initiate a debate on many foundational premises of archaeological and historical narratives. It focuses on the much-neglected region of the Eastern Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin as a spatial frame to do this and studies themes such as spatial and temporal scales of concepts and methods, multi-scaler factors and processes of continuity and changes, the settlement archaeology of the alluvial landscape, changing patterns of agrarian transformation, and material cultures, including coins, inscriptions, pottery, and sculptures, in their contexts in sub-regional, regional, and supra-regional intersections. Dedicated to historian Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, this volume presents a crucial and unprecedented intervention in the study of the early medieval and the medieval periods. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of archaeology, ancient history, medieval history, water history, earth sciences, palaeoecology, historical ecology, epigraphy, art history, material culture studies, Indian history, and South Asian studies in general.
The Historical Review
Author: Peasant History of Late Pre-colonial and Colonial India
Author: B. B. ChaudhuriPublisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131716885
Category : Geschichte
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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