Amit Bhattacharyya
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The Maoist movement in India is one of the longest surviving communist revolutionary movements in the history of the world. Born in 1967, it has been able to withstand state brutality and rose like a phoenix from the ashes time and again. That implies the existence of some deep-rooted socio-economic needs that the existing system has failed to satisfy. Today, every protest is branded by the powers that be as ‘Maoist’. ‘Maoism’ in India ...
This compendium of 13 papers, presented at an international seminar, organized at Jadavpur University, attempts to examine the different issues concerning social systems, science and environment, with special reference to India. Taking a close look at the status of ecology and technology from ancient to modern India, it discusses at length the geographical landscape and migration of technological tradition, the environmental disturbances occurred in India and ...
This collection of research articles on such varied themes as Swadeshi economic thinking, Swadeshi industries, Swadeshi science and technology, P.M. Bagchi and Co., business and politics, the nature of the Indian capitalist class and the role of advertisements as a source in reconstructing the industrial history of Bengal, is a welcome addition to the existing literature on the subjects.
The present book is a case study of one of the oldest surviving Bengali companies. P.M. Bagchi & Co. combined the main business of almanac and publication of books of serious and light reading with a wide range of popular products such as writing inks, types, rubber stamps and pad, hair oils, perfumes and various cosmetics, fruit syrups and both ayurvedic and allopathic medicines. Such a diversification was unique in the business tradition of Bengal, if not ...
This is the first-ever inventory and enquiry into Swadeshi enterprise in Bengal exhaustively done in all fields such as textiles, drugs and chemicals, leather, shipping, tobacco, pottery, iron foundry, match, stationary, banking, insurance etc. An important addition is a case study of P.M. Bagchi and Co. An analysis of the policy of the colonial government forms an important chapter. Problems of capital formation, investment, technical know-how are discussed in ...