Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
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The Indian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand represents a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies and economies. However, because of their small number—slightly more than half a million— they rarely find mention in the global literature on Indian diaspora. The present volume seeks to remedy this oversight.
Charting the chequered 250-year-old history of both the ‘old’ and the ...
Modernity, which emphasizes the relegation of religion firmly to an individual’s private life, is a challenging idea for any culture. In India it faces a particularly unusual problem: the persistence of numerous traditional and religious practices means that religion and modernity co-habit here in a complex, plural, transient, and historically evolving relationship.
Religion and Modernity in India explores this complex relationship through a series of case ...
This is an attempt to present the history of Calcutta by a new approach—that of combining poetry with historical writing thereby retaining the essence of both forms. Unfolding the tumultuous events of a critical period in the history of Calcutta—the 1940s and the 1950s, it views the city of Calcutta as a whole during the decades. It deals with the ordering of urban space, impact of war, famine and unrest, the nature of communal relations, and the ...
It is widely believed that, because of its exceptional social development, the caste system in colonial Bengal differed considerably from the rest of India. Through a study of the complex interplay between caste, culture and power, this book convincingly demonstrates that Bengali Hindu society preserved the essentials of caste discrimination in colonial times, even while giving the outward appearance of having changed. Using empirical data combined with an ...
More than a survey, and much more than a thematically arranged narrative, From Plassey to Partition is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It maps a wide and often complicated terrain of historical happenings, their main players in groups and as individuals, and contexts that enable us to see the formation of a nation through documents of resistance and struggle, assimilation and rejection. This story of India's nationhood and ...
This reader provides a comprehensive discussion of the pluralist nature of the Indian nation and its struggle for independence. It highlights the different understandings of nationalism in various social groups, classes and regions. The introduction provides a broad historical outline of the Nationalist Movement in the post 1857 period and analyses its various complexities and internal contradictions. This book will be indispensable for students and teachers of ...