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Author: Peter Heehs Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195669145 Category : Bengal (India) Languages : en Pages : 0
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This Book Describes A Moment In History Which Became A Landmark On The Map Of The Anticolonial Struggle, But Which Nationalist Historiography Did Not Sufficiently Engage With-The Revolutionary Movement In Bengal. A New Introduction Situates The Central Concerns Of The Book Against Very Recent Events In World History Which Have Changed The Way Terrorism Is Viewed Today.
Author: Peter Heehs Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195669145 Category : Bengal (India) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This Book Describes A Moment In History Which Became A Landmark On The Map Of The Anticolonial Struggle, But Which Nationalist Historiography Did Not Sufficiently Engage With-The Revolutionary Movement In Bengal. A New Introduction Situates The Central Concerns Of The Book Against Very Recent Events In World History Which Have Changed The Way Terrorism Is Viewed Today.
Author: Nabarun Bhattacharya Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 0811224740 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 117
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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.
Author: Janam Mukherjee Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190209887 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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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.
Author: Michael Silvestri Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3030180425 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 364
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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.
Author: Noorul Hoda Publisher: Niyogi Books ISBN: 8189738313 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 229
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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.
Author: Robert Cribb Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000144011 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 392
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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.
Author: Joseph McQuade Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108842151 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 293
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Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade traces the genealogy of the political and legal category of terrorism. He demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: Hugh B. Urban Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520236564 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 389
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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.
Author: Peter Heehs
Author: Peter Heehs
Author: Nabarun Bhattacharya
Author: Janam Mukherjee
Author: Michael Silvestri
Author: Durba Ghosh
Author: Noorul Hoda
Author: Robert Cribb
Author: Hem Chandra Kanungo
Author: Joseph McQuade
Author: Hugh B. Urban