In 1990, the tricentenary celebration of the foundation of Calcutta by Job Charnok has drawn attention of many scholars to the various facets of the city in the form of books and monographs but none of these publications throw any searching light on its founders, that is, the servants of the East India Company. How were they chosen for service in Bengal? What were their social backgrounds? What was the nature of interlinked families created by them in Bengal? How did the Anglo-Indian or Eurasian community emerge in Bengal and how did its fortune relate to the circumstances and the interests of the Directors of the East India Company? How did the servants of the Company adjust their lives to the conditions in Bengal and how did these adjustments relate to the changes in the method of recruitment and the conditions of service in Bengal? These and many other related questions have been answered in the pages of the book. Meticulously researched on contemporary sources and written in a very clear, pleasant and lucid style, the book will be a welcome addition to any leading library in India and abroad.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Suresh Chandra Ghosh
Formerly a member on the UGC Education Panel and associated with a number of UGC committees including the Working Group on Higher Education for IX plan as well as with the Rehabilitation Council of India as a member of many of its committees and sub-committees, Suresh Chandra Ghosh was a post-doctoral Fellow in History at Edinburgh University, in 1968-70, Honorary visiting Scholar at the University of London, Institute of Education in 1981, a Visiting Fellow at the Maison Des Sciences De L’Homme, Paris, in 1991-92, at the Institute of Advanced Study of Humanities in Edinburgh in 1992 and at the University of Western Ontario, London and the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, Toronto, in 1993. In 1988 he was sponsored by the New Delhi Ford Foundation to deliver a lecture on the 1986 New Education Policy in India at the Duke and the Indiana Universities in the United States. Author of twelve research monographs and twelve papers mostly published abroad, he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Paedagogica Historica, Belgium and now a Gast Professor at Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany, since April 2000. His forthcoming publications include History of Education in Ancient India, 3000 B.C. to 1192 A.D.
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