Bengal Miscellany, Vol. II
Contents: Editorial. Contributors. 1. Women in West Bengal Panchayat/Chittabrata Palit. 2. Western medicine and women: Colonial imperatives behind the dufferin fund/Aparajita Dhar. 3. Kadambini Ganguly - The Archetypal woman of nineteenth century Bengal (1861-1923)/Mousumi Bandyopadhyay. 4. Mighty protest through a mighty pen: Santosh Kumari Devi and her literary contribution/Sutapa Sengupta. 5. Santa Devi and Sita Devi/Madhabi De. 6. Gender collaboration and establishment of women’s rights - a study/Baishali Bhowmick (Guha). 7. Tikkadars and small pox inoculation in Bengal/Kabita Ray. 8. Burdwan fever: an enquiry into its impact on agriculture and peasantry of Burdwan District/Achintya Kumar Dutta. 9. History of the People’s Health Movement in West Bengal/Sabyasachi Chatterjee. 10. Indian Freedom Movement and the Bengal Zamindars: a case study of Manindra Chandra Nandy (1905-1929)/Md. Khairul Anam. 11. Tribal resistance to British Forest Policy: Forest Satyagraha in Midnapore (1923)/Anindita Majumdar. 12. The Bengal famine in contemporary eyes (1942-1944)/Syamaprasad Datta. 13. Food and cross-cultural ties/Rajendrani Mitra. 14. Everyday life and formation of cultural pattern in peasant society of Birbhum (1860-1940)/Suhita Sinha Roy. 15. The dynamics of the port of Chittagong and its challenge to the port of Calcutta/Pranab Kumar Chatterjee. Index.
“The series entitled “Bengal Miscellany” has been designed to focus on the different aspects of Bengal’s history, economy and culture through academic papers written by eminent scholars and young researchers. The first volume in the series was published in June 2008.
The present volume, second in the series, brings together fifteen rich, informative and well-researched articles which were previously published in ‘CLIO’, the interdisciplinary journal of the Corpus Research Institute, Kolkata. The range of topics covered in impressive. Each article deals with a specific and well-defined theme. However, the volume throws light especially on women’s history, which has emerged recently as a new field of study.” (jacket)
