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This book seeks to address the issues of ethnic identity of the people of Northeast India and the process of their integration with the concept of Indianness. Investigating into some aspects of the social, economic and political history of the region, it discusses at length their economic life, their trade and commerce, and their relations with the immediate neighbours like Bhutan and Tibet.Drawing evidence from the epics, the Puranas, the epigraphs and ...
In this book Dr M.S. Bhattacharya offers nothing less than a comprehensive account of child labour and child abuse in almost the entire South Asia. It began with the days of the raj when newly set-up industries and plantations started employing children on a large scale to augment production which continued for a long time until trade union movements and resultant labour legislations restricted the employment of children in the factories and plantations. The ...
In Studies in Microhistory, M.S. Bhattacharya considers the micro aspects of the great political movements in the Indian subcontinent and illustrates the difference of mindset, attitude and aspirations between the national protagonists and their sub-regional followers. Bhattacharya proposes that the local or Sub-Regional Movements often merged with the great mass movements without loosing their own features. Moreover, national leadership sought to accommodate the ...