Aspects of Indian History and Historiography
Contents: Preface. Section I: 1. Petty peasant production and agrarian capitalism: a recent view on their relationship in colonial India/B.B. Chaudhuri. 2. The congress ministry in the central provinces and berar, 1937-39: the communal problem/K. Mojumdar. 3. Civil disobedience movement and women in Midnapore District/Niranjan Ghosh. 4. Nature of agrarian discontent and the origin of peasant movements in India during the pre-nationalist era (1757-1857)/Debabandya Kabi. 5. Protest movement in Manbhum against its merger with Bihar, 1912/S.C. Mukhopadhyay. 6. The Indian reform and awakening of the 19th century: a study of its impact on Bihar/Summanta Niyogi. 7. The quit India movement and the Tamralipta Jatiya Sarkar/P.K. Maity. 8. Western poligars in Madras presidency/Anies George.
Section II: 9. A living tradition of Tripura: an ethno-cultural probe/Sumangal Sen. 10. Endowments to temples in Northern India (early medieval period)/Puspa Niyogi. 11. Modern and secular trends in Muslim social thought in nineteenth century Bengal/A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed. 12. Tribal history of ancient Bengal/Bhaskar Chatterjee. 13. The cola army and the royal temple of Rajarajesvaram/Geeta Vasudevan. 14. The system of education in ancient Orissa (6th century A.D. to 13th century A.D./Sanghamitra Dasgupta. 15. Widow burning and the Madri episode: an analysis/Ashvini Agrawal. 16. Glimpses of social condition of India in the anguttara-nikaya/Gayatri Sen Majumdar. 17. Medical science as known to the Chinese pilgrims/Sukumar Sengupta. 18. Medicine in ancient India: a review/Rakhal Chandra Nath. 19. Orissan chronology: an epigraphical study/P.K. Nayak. Section III: 20. Jagannath cult of Orissa and the Rajas of Nepal/P.K. Mishra. 21. Indians around the pamir plateau in the first decade of the nineteenth century: a view of contemporary Russians/Surendra Gopal. 22. India's foreign policy in the post cold war era: can it be reconstructed to build a South Asian community?/Jayanta Kumar Ray. 23. Origin and development of arakanese settlements in Bangladesh: a study of arakan-Bangladesh relations (1760-1825/Abdul Mabud Khan. Section IV: 24. Craft of history writing: an early Indian perspective/Sukla Das. 25. A lost book on politics in ancient India/Pratap Chandra Chunder. 26. Perspectives of Pali and Buddhistic studies and Bimala Churn law/Dipak Kumar Barua. 27. Some illusionistic thoughts in history writing/Rasesh Jamindar. 28. Swamikannu Pillais Indian ephemeris: a reconsideration/Mahesh Sharma. 29. Voices of protest and dissent in the works of Bana/Shankar Goyal. Appendix: List of select writings of Prof. K.K. Dasgupta/K.K. Chaudhuri. Index.
"The book contains research papers based on intensive study and field work by authors who are renowned for deep erudition and critical acumen. The topics cater to the requirements of scholars working on various aspects of political and socio-economic history, popular movements, India and the external world and historiography. A study of this interesting and illuminating volume will be highly rewarding." (jacket)
