Perspectives of Indian History : Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri Commemoration Volume

Contents: Preface. I. Professor S.B. Chaudhuri : life and works: 1. Sashi Bhusan Chaudhuri : the historian of the first war of Indian independence/Bhaskar Chattopadhyay. 2. Reminiscences of an admirer of Dr. S.B. Chaudhuri/Bhupesh Chandra Mukherjee. 3. As I have seen my father/Anima Deb. II. Studies in ancient India: 1. Black and red ware culture in West Bengal--a critique of a recent hypothesis/Bratindra Nath Mukherjee. 2. Periodisation in Indian history : a cultural historian\'s dilemma/Manatosh Chaudhury. 3. Civil rights and rebellions in ancient India/Bhaskar Chattopadhyay. 4. Economic structure in the Buddhist Sangha/Pranabananda Jash. 5. The Gupta towns of Bengal : an archaeological perspective/Vijay Kumar Thakur. 6. Siva as guardian-deity : case studies of the kingdoms of Kamta-Koch Behar and Kamarupa/Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya. 7. The Vaikhanasa school/Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya. 8. Early medieval Indian oceanic traders\' life on board/Rangan Kanti Jana. III. Studies in socio-cultural history of modern India: 1. Two reformation movements in Bengal/Ramakanta Chakrabarty. 2. Interpreting the perception of women/Ranjit Sen. 3. The birth of a vision/Rakhal Chandra Nath. 4. Muslim education in Bengal (19th to mid-20th centuries)/Sukumar Bhattacharyya. 5. H.L.V. Derozio (1809-1831) as a teacher and thinker/Bhabotosh Kundu. 6. The Western women disciples of Swami Vivekananda : an interaction between the east and the west (1893-1902)/Sudeshna Basak. 7. And out of that dark the poet sings : the leftist art movement in Bengal (1936-52)/Anuradha Roy. IV. Studies in political and economic history of modern India: 1. The Marxian economic Materialism and the Indian experience/Viswanath Prasad Verma. 2. An American missionary on the Revolt of 1857/Nikhiles Guha. 3. Peasant Rebellion through the ages : an overview/Sandip Basu Sarvadhikary. 4. The problem of peasnatisation and integration of the santals in the Bengal plains (1790-1910)/Chittabrata Palit. 5. Beginning of peasant-protest against European Indigo planters in Bihar/Surendra Gopal. 6. Aspects of indentured emigration to North-East India, 1859-1918/Jagdish Chandra Jha. 7. Rural industrialization : the rice mills of Burdwan, 1908-1954/Achintya Kumar Dutta. 8. Impact of the second world war on Indian administration/Shyam Behari Singh. 9. The Raj in its nakedness/Somnath Roy.