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 outstanding vintage and is destined to be a big draw for the reading public.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy is a Head of Department of Home Science at Dyanand University, Karnataka. She completed her M.Sc. in Food Technology, Pantnagar (U.P.) 1988 and finished her Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur in 1995. She has been teaching the subject 1986. Her areas of interest are in Thermal Processing (Conventional Canning, Agitation Processing, Micro-Wave Processing), Biochemical changes in food, Water activity in food, Calculation of the energy content of foods Methods of Food preservation, Chemistry of Food Irradiation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chittrabrata Palit
Dr. Chittabrata Palit is a Professor of History at Jadavpur University. A noted historian and an authority on 19th century Bengal, he is of late engaged in writing a social history of science in Bengal. Apart from many papers on the subject, he has already edited, 'Science, Technology, Medicine and Environment in India. Historical Perspectives' (1998) and authored 'Mahendralal Sircar and National Science' (2000).
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