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This book explores the interface between crime and control in early colonial Bengal. Set in the context of a violent countryside in the twilight of Nawabi Bengal it initially examines the compulsions behind the introduction of colonial police in this region by Lord Cornwallis in 1793. Professor Chattopadhyay shows that the importance of the innovation lay not merely in its narrow application to crime and violence. In a broad sense it represented the penetration ...
A Jingle of Bells charts the development in the postal system in Bengal with the General Post Office as its centrepiece. It begins by taking a look at the indigenous postal systems, which were primarily geared to administrative or commercial requirements. The arrival of the Europeans changed the situation. The need for a regular and reliable postal system came to be acutely felt by trading companies, Jesuit missionaries and individual Europeans many of whom ...
This book is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Eastern Command of the Indian Army and a team of three professional researchers. Designed to acquaint the readers with an authoritative history of Fort William, it has tried to steer a middle course in the face of two methodological opposites; a coffee table publication and a research monograph. There has been an attempt to weave a historical narrative in a form that would appeal to academics, ...