Author: Indrani GangulyPublisher:
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Category : Burdwān (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Study on Burdwān, India.
The Social History of a Bengal Town
Author: Indrani GangulyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burdwān (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Study on Burdwān, India.
The Social History of a Bengal Town, 1872-1947
Author: Indrani GangulyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burdwān (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams
Author: Rachel Fell McDermottPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198030711
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
This book chronicles the rise of goddess worship in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on the goddesses Kali and Uma, McDermott examines lyrical poems written by devotees from Ramprasad Sen (ca. 1718-1775) to Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976).
Bengal in Global Concept History
Author: Andrew SartoriPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226734943
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In this study, Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in 19th- and 20th-century Bengal to show how the concept of 'culture' can take on a life of its own in different contexts, weaving the narrative of Bengal's embrace of culturalism into a worldwide history of the concept.
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
Author: Sunil S. AmrithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal—India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia—are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it. For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in the nineteenth century, abetted by the force of capital and the power of steam, reconfigured the Bay in their quest for coffee, rice, and rubber. Millions of Indian migrants crossed the sea, bound by debt or spurred by drought, and filled with ambition. Booming port cities like Singapore and Penang became the most culturally diverse societies of their time. By the 1930s, however, economic, political, and environmental pressures began to erode the Bay’s centuries-old patterns of interconnection. Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal’s shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia’s future. Amrith’s evocative and compelling narrative of the region’s pasts offers insights critical to understanding and confronting the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.
Nineteenth Century Bengal
Author: Pradip SinhaPublisher:
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Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Play of the Gods
Author: Ákos ÖstörPublisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788180280139
Category : Bishnupur (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A New Expanded And Illustrated Edition Of The Work First Published In 1980. Relates Two Festivals-Durgapuja In Some Of Goddess Durga, And Gajan In Honour Of Lord Siva. Presents An Inside New Of Society And Is The Only Complete Ethnographic Account Of A Major Ritual Cycle In India. 4 Chapters And 4 Appendices.
History of Bangladesh, 1704-1971: Social and cultural history
Author: Sirajul IslamPublisher:
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Category : Bangladesh
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Contributed articles.
Shifting Ground
Author: Mahesh RangarajanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019908937X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction - those between geographical spaces (forest, rivers, farms), people (herders, farmers, townspeople), eras (colonial, post-colonial) and so on. The limitations of these sharp divides are brought to the forefront when there is a critical engagement with the region's contested environmental past. Shifting Ground brings together an array of essays that pose critical questions regarding India's environmental past and the way it has been approached by scholars. From debunking the idea of a primeval, pristine forest cover, to analysing the dynamics that shape human-animal relations, to examining the conflicts created by post-Independence projects of rural development and conservation - this volume touches upon the various aspects of environmental studies and juxtaposes them with social history, history of science and technology and history of trade and culture. Drawing on original case studies the book not only explores the past, but also portrays how its traditions are often invoked to be deployed in contemporary conflicts - those that are often aggravated by the pressures on natural assets created by the recent prosperity and the vaulting aspirations of a rapidly expanding Indian middle class.
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