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Total Pages : 251 pages
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Download or read book Sentinels of Calcutta written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amarendra Nath Mukherjee
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Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sentinels of Liberty written by Amarendra Nath Mukherjee and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218315
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book A Princely Impostor? written by Partha Chatterjee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth. With a novelist's eye for interesting detail, Partha Chatterjee sifts through evidence found in official archives, popular songs, and backstreet Bangladeshi bookshops. He evaluates the case of the man claiming, with the support of legions of tenants and relatives, to be the long-lost Kumar. And he considers the position of the sannyasi's detractors, including the colonial government and the Kumar's young widow, who resolutely refused to meet the man she denounced as an impostor. Along the way, Chatterjee introduces us to a fascinating range of human character, gleans insights into the nature of human identity, and examines the relation between scientific evidence, legal truth, and cultural practice. The story he tells unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Its plot is shaped by changing gender and class relations and punctuated by critical historical events, including the onset of World War II, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Great Calcutta Killings. And by identifying the earliest erosion of colonialism and the growth of nationalist thinking within the organs of colonial power, Chatterjee also gives us a secret history of Indian nationalism.
Author : Maroona Murmu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199098212
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Words of Her Own written by Maroona Murmu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words of Her Own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genres—such as autobiographies, novels, and travelogues—this book examines the sociocultural incentives that enabled the dawn of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors at that time. Murmu explores the intersections of class, caste, gender, language, and religion in these works. Reading these texts within a specific milieu, Murmu sets out to rectify the essentialist conception of women’s writings being a monolithic body of works that displays a firmly gendered form and content, by offering rich insights into the complex world of subjectivities of women in colonial Bengal. In attempting to do so, this book opens up the possibility of reconfiguring mainstream history by questioning the scholarly conceptualization of patriarchy being omnipotent enough to shape the intricacies of gender relations, resulting in the flattening of self-fashioning by women writers. The book contends that there were women authors who flouted the norms of literary aesthetics and tastes set by male literati, thereby creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangla and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century.
Author : Tithi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sentinels of Culture written by Tithi Bhattacharya and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why--from the second half of the nineteenth century--the Hindu bhadralok in Bengal developed a specific rhetoric of culture that has continued to inform their identity to the present day.
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Indian and Eastern Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Thankappan Nair
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Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Origin of the Kolkata Police written by P. Thankappan Nair and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the Kolkata(=Calcutta) Police dates from the landing of job Charnock in Sutanati, the embryo of the metropolis, on 24th August 1690. The modern Police Force in India begins from the appointment of a Commissioner of Police in Calcutta on Ist November 1856. The Commissionerate system of Policing is thus the contribution of Calcutta to India. The Kolkata Police is yet to conclude its year-long 150th aniversary celebration in November 2006. The evolution of the Calcutta Police has not yet been documented; so is also the history of Lalbazar, its headquarters. The Origin of the Kolkata Police by P.T. Nair is the first documented history of the city's guardians of law and order. He has not spared any pains in unearthing all documents of the Calcutta Police from 1690 to 1866 and present them in this seminal work.
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Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Indian and Eastern Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 29, no. 8-37, no. 7 (Aug., 1937-July, 1944) include the section: Aviation.
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Total Pages : 1172 pages
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Download or read book Medical Sentinel written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ravindran K. Malayil
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1543704441
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Sentinel written by Ravindran K. Malayil and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ravindran Malayil is an avid traveler and introspective thinker who loves visiting exotic locales like Titlis, Jungfraujoch, and Nice. In a fascinating travelogue filled with insightful anecdotes, Malayil transports others on a journey around the world while vividly describing such places as the eight Hindu temples in the Maharashtra state of India, the Cologne Cathedral in Germany, the Great Wall of China, Monaco and Monte Carlo, Paris, the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, China, and Varosha, the abandoned tourist resort in Cyprus. Sprinkled throughout his travelogue are Malayil’s musings and poems about such diverse topics as the loss of his younger brother, the effects and symptoms of dementia, the cataclysmic transformation that has come over him over the years, his ever-changing reading habits, and the special teacher who taught him a valuable life lesson. Sentinel shares thoughts and colorful descriptions of exotic locations around the world as one man looks both inward and outward while reflecting on his life and travels.
Author : Saswati Sengupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190993251
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Mutating Goddesses written by Saswati Sengupta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities—Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi—from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. The critical studies of Hindu goddesses have been dominated by the sastrik perspective deriving from the Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the male Brahman. But there are religious practices and beliefs under the broad rubric of Hinduism that are neither governed by the male Brahman nor articulated in Sanskrit. It is this vibrant laukika archive—considered low from the hegemonic perspective—that Mutating Goddesses explores to realize the politic trafficking between this realm and the sastrik. The book excavates the multiple and layered heritage of the region which includes tribal culture, Buddhism, Tantricism, and so on, as is available in rituals, proverbs, verses, circulating myths, poetic genres and kathas, caste manuals, census records etc to illustrate how tradition is a matter of strategic selection.
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Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Index Indo-asiaticus written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 868 pages
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Download or read book Christian Science Sentinel written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Parker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503582167
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Sentinel and Greater Gift Hath No Man written by John Parker and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sentinel of Kunduz For eons they prayed for the Nokorrah to come to their rescue. A prophesized being who would rescue them from their enemy and transform their lives. This is the story of a Kurdish girl who lost everything she loved but who through her courage, daring and faith restored a lost people and brought them a new beginning. This is also the story of a covert US military operation that becomes entwined with her and her peoples struggle and how their interaction leads to unintended consequences that change the fate of the Kurdish people forever. Greater Gift Hath No Man The extraordinary story of a Navy helicopter crew and ship attempting a daring rescue against horrific and seemingly insurmountable odds. A family desperately clings to life on a capsized schooner in one of the worst storms ever to hit the West Coast. Their only hope a stubborn Navy pilot who pushes himself, his crew and his aircraft to the limits of their endurance as he refuses to surrender them to the violent seas. This is the story Lieutenant William Hitman Evans and the valiant crew of Buckeye Zero Niner as they battled the wrath allayed against them to save the family.
Author : Sumit Chakrabarti
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000193683
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century written by Sumit Chakrabarti and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.
Author : Chandak Sengoopta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199089647
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Rays before Satyajit written by Chandak Sengoopta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of Indian cinema, the name of Satyajit Ray needs no introduction. However, what remains unvoiced is the contribution of his forebears and their tryst with Indian modernity. Be it in art, advertising, and printing technology or in nationalism, feminism, and cultural reform, the earlier Rays attempted to create forms of the modern that were uniquely Indian and cosmopolitan at the same time. Some of the Rays, especially Upendrakishore and his son, Sukumar, are iconic figures in Bengal. But even Bengali historiography is almost exclusively concerned with the family’s contributions to children’s literature. However, as this study highlights, the family also played an important role in engaging with new forms of cultural modernity. Apart from producing literary works of enduring significance, they engaged in diverse reformist endeavours. The first comprehensive work in English on the pre-Satyajit generations, The Rays before Satyajit is more than a collective biography of an extraordinary family. It interweaves the Ray saga with the larger history of Indian modernity.
Author : Gajendra Kumar
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176253581
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Indian English Fiction written by Gajendra Kumar and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
