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The volume explores Tagore as a critic of nationalism—his critique of nationalism per se and not that of any particular country. With a background of nineteenth century Bengal, it views diverse aspects of the poet-scholar’s argument vis-à-vis nationalism by delving into his essays as well as his fictional writings. Undertaking an inquiry into the roots of his seminal ideas, it integrates all his ideas about nationalism in a coherent way. It ...
The essays in this volume have been written in honour of Professor Amalendu De, a leading historian and social scientist of our country. The contributors are his friends, admirers, colleagues and students who are scholars of repute in their own right.The essays define and develop new trends in history exploring a wide range of work in socio cultural, economic and political history as well as history of science and environment. The photographs used in this book ...
This book, as the title indicates, is a study of the role of Bengal Muslims in the national political movements vis-a-vis the political communalism and separatism. The period studied in this book has received scant attention of the scholars, even though it provided a remarkable example of united struggle by the Muslims and Hindus against British Imperialism. In the morrow of the annulment of the partition of Bengal, the rising Bengali educated Muslim middle class ...
Anita Roy Chowdhury's paintings are nothing but voice of Nature. Every moment Nature deserves transformations of life eternally, having life and death simultaneously. This continuous process always has some inner-message surrounded by Human, Nature as well as Animal Kingdom. We the human beings are engaged to build superior civilization. Those civilizations are often gloomy or glorious in other way. If she draws any subject about nature -- It's automatically ...
Satyen Ghosal was a free flowing individual who have may avenues to traverse, he neither believed any form to be the ultimate, nor did he disregarded any of them. In his works, he represents nature through various forms and with enough human emotions which carries the depth of meditation and the hardcore reality, simultaneously. This realization has developed from his search which was his independent and unique style of painting...
As the title indicates, this book is a study of the role of the Bengal Muslims in the Khilafat Movement. Bengal not only had the largest concentration of Muslims but the socio-economic conditions there made the growth of politics among the Bengali Muslims different from that in other parts of India, and this trend was strongly visible during the Khilafat, Non-Cooperation Movement. The complete merger of the Khilafat issue with the Swaraj Movement through ...