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The latest publication from Distinguished Teaching Professor of History Geraldine Forbes traces the life of a remarkable woman who sheds light on often-unseen scenes of colonial-era India. “Because I Am a Woman: A Child Widow’s Memoirs from Colonial India” traces the life of Haimabati Sen from troubled childhood to respected doctor and trailblazer. One of Sen’s grandsons gave Forbes the memoirs, written in a series of notebooks, and she ...
In Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities Tapan Raychaudhuri delves into the mental world of the colonial middle class in India. He reassesses British rule and dwells on the implications of communal chauvinism in contemporary South Asia. Lucidly written, these essays deal with several topics--the transformation of Indian sensibilities; love and romance in nineteenth-century Bengal; Vivekananda's trenchant criticism of contemporary Hinduism; the ideals shared by ...
This penetrating volume examines changing perceptions and attitudes in nineteenth-century Bengal that grew out of its social, cultural, and intellectual confrontation with the west. The author focuses his analysis on the ideas of three men—Bhudev Mukhopadhyay, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, and Swami Vivekananda. Despite their very different perceptions of the west, these men, erudite and accomplished members of upper-class urban Bengal, were considered ...
The two volume Cambridge Economic History of India has served as the single most widely consulted and cited reference for over twenty years. This volume covers a spectrum of socio-economic views on, and reviews of c. 1200 – 1500, the pre-Mughal period. It begins at the point fro which a systematic treatment of Indian economic history becomes possible. It closes on the eve of the subjugation of the country and its economy by Britain. Twenty-seven essays in ...