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The 150th anniversary of the Great Revolt of 1857 was celebrated all over the country by holding national and international seminars at Centres of Learning. One such national seminar was held in Kolkata by the History Department of Jadavpur University in June 2007.The book is the proceedings volume of that seminar. It reflects the rainbow spectrum of the nature of the revolt seen from different prisms of vision of different personalities. The result is a book of ...
The present collection of essays on ‘Dr. Mahendralal Sircar and the National Movement’ is a part of our project on ‘Science and Nationalism in Bengal 1876-1947’ funded by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). These are seminar papers presented at various local and national seminars from time to time. Each essay is complete in itself. There are biographies of Dr. Mahendralal Sircar by Sarat Chandra Ghosh in English and Samarendra Nath ...
This book deals with the hitherto neglected first phase of the National Education Movement. Satis Chandra Mukherjee, the doyen of this movement comes live in this account. The Dawn Society which embodied this movement gets full coverage of its activities here. Science and technology got high priority in its agenda. Through its mouthpiece, the Dawn Magazine, a series of articles on Science & Technology were published. A selection of these papers has been ...
This book has grown out of papers presented to national and international seminars on social history of science in recent year. Social history of science is no longer a postmodernist, episodic theme. It has become a part of mainstream history as it addresses material progress of a nation. It is applied history. This book comprises essays in the history of science, technology, medicine and environment in colonial Bengal. Bengal was the first region to be conquered ...
Nineteenth Century Bengal remains a fascinating study for Bengali identity and nostalgia. This book is an enlarged edition of a standard work on the subject. New essays on Rammohan, Derozio, Vidyasagar, Muslim students of the Hooghly Mohsin College and the Urban Poor of Calcutta have been added to the first edition. The book queries the substructure and the superstructure of the nineteenth century Bengali society and raises important debates. It is both a text ...