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In this book the author, who was born and brought up in West Bengal/India during the Left Front era, ponders over the question, ‘How did I become interested in Marxist politics and what do I still believe in?’ As a student of History, the author had learnt that one should maintain distance and analyse the object of study as if the analyst is a judge trying to find the truth about a place and a period of time. Such a method, according to the author, ...
This book seeks to understand the relevance of Swami Vivekananda in the field of international relations, with special reference to India. Simultaneously, it brings out the connection and contradiction between the concepts of Swami Vivekananda and the ideas of modern age political leaders.
Making an in depth study of the concept of Vedanta, proposed by Swami Vivekananda, it discusses Swamiji’s views on India’s relations with US, Britain, Russia and ...
Refugees are a significant social category of the present century. They are well exemplified in the characterization of the first half of this century as the age of the homeless. As such they have always required humanitarian concern dealing with human sufferings and deprivation of their proper their rehabilitation., Since they have been drifted from one place to another, their evoked conditions have interests among the social scientists to look at the socio ...
Inscribing Identity : Essays from Nineteenth Century Bengal, edited by Krishna Sen in collaboration with Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, is a collection of twenty-five essays and long extracts, all written originally in English between 1818 and 1899 by eminent Bengali thinkers, leaders, scholars, scientists and business men of that era. The authors range from Raja Rammohun Roy and Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay to Iswarchandra Vidyasagar, Swami Vivekananda and Sri ...
Two decades ago the recombinant DNA technology or genetic engineering ushered in a new era in the study of plant viruses. The major breakthrough came in the eighties primarily due to the development of new methods for RNA reverse transcription and cDNA cloning, along with restriction enzyme mapping and rapid nucleotide sequencing. An information explosion in various molecular aspects of plant viruses was caused by these studies. Current research efforts ...
This book is a collective venture of the Peace Studies Group in the Department of History. In this assortment of essays on diverse themes, the contributors have shared a common concern about how, in recent times, contestation over territory by rival nations and communities has threatened peace and harmony. Looking at the South Asian scenario in the near past reminds one of this sordid truth. The essays on India's partition - Basudeb Chattopadhyay, Bharati Ray and ...