Reflections in History : Essays in Honour of Professor Amalendu De
Contents: Editorial note. 1. Reflections on common cultural heritage of South-Asia/A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed. 2. Muslim education system in Sultanate Bengal : an analysis/A.K.M. Shahnawaz. 3. Jean-Baptiste Chevalier\'s Odyssey in Assam/Ajit Neogi. 4. The crisis of conventional labour history and the search for an alternative : the study of rural non-agricultural labour in India 1970-1990/Amal Das. 5. State repression in West Bengal and the Bandi Mukti Committee/Amit Bhattacharyya. 6. The image of the prophet in Bengali Piety : 1850-1947/Amit Dey. 7. Regional development issue in Indian history throughout the ages/Ananda Gopal Ghosh. 8. Studying environment and climatology of ancient Bengal/Annapurna Chattopadhyay. 9. Background to land reforms in post independence Bengal : Shifts in the predominant modes of land control and appropriation in colonial Bengal/Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri. 10. Genesis of Hindu politics in Bengal : the Mahasabha Movement till 1939/Biswaroop Ghosh. 11. H.S. Suhrawardy\'s Dilemma : Pakistan or United Independent Bengal (1947)/Chitta Ranjan Misra. 12. Modern Hindi writings and Sikhs and Sikhism in Banaras/Himadri Banerjee. 13. Normative space of the "politics of citizenship" in Eastern India/Hiroshi Sato. 14. Aspects of the cow protection movement and the Hindi intelligentsia of Bihar/Hitendra K. Patel. 15. Towards a symbiosis : gender and the revolutionary party in late colonial Bengal (1905-1936)/Ishanee Mukherjee. 16. A long term view of contemporary Muslim situation in India/Jeveed Alam. 17. Re-understanding history/Jayanti Alam. 18. Rammohan Roy in Western thought : new issues and perspectives/Jenia Mukherjee. 19. Higher education scenario in Bangladesh : challenges and prospects/K.M. Mohsin and Fakhrul Islam. 20. From revolutionism to socialism : the role of Anushilan Samiti in Bengal (1935-47)/Keka Dutta Roy. 21. Disaster management, survival strategies and environment: a case study of North Bengal/Mahua Sarkar. 22. Muslim student politics in pre-partition Bengal/Md. Abul Kashem. 23. Treading across two diametrically opposites : Phulrenu Guha\'s journey from Marxism to Gandhism/Nirban Basu. 24. Early Indian history in the reformist perception of Vivekananda/Nupur Dasgupta. 25. A note on the term \'Jayaskandhavara\' - in the land grant plates of the Pala Kings of Bengal/Rangan Kanti Jana. 26. Contextualising a memoir : an Indian ICS and the European club in the Mofussil/Ranjan Chakrabarti. 27. Bengali business enterprise in Calcutta in the early colonial era/Ranjit Sen. 28. Social formation in Medieval Bengal - a peasantry and the Agrarian Sector/Reena Bhaduri. 29. Role of the Midnapore women in Indian Freedom Movement/Rina Paul. 30. State policies and forced migrations : reflections on the Bhupalese/Rup Kumar Barman. 31. Science communication through Bangla periodicals : a historical study/Sabyasachi Chatterjee. 32. Food, war and anti-imperialism (The Bengal Famine of 1943 in Asian context)/Sho Kuwajima. 33. Basanta Koomar Roy : a forgotten freedom fighter/Somnath Roy. 34. Emergence of the female actresses in Bengali Theater/Sreyashi Sarkar. 35. Time for the \'Little\' narratives: a new agenda for studying the history of the Freedom struggle/Sudeshna Banerjee. 36. Colonial rule and female practitioners of indigenous medicine in Bengal/Sujata Mukherjee. 37. Perception of life in Twilight years in the light of Susruta Samhita/Sukla Das. 38. Bengali women : towards modernity/Sunita Bandyopadhyay. 39. Behind the Blackened faces : the nineteenth century Bengali Dacoits/Suranjan Das. 40. Trailblazers in Islam : a case study of three extraordinary women/Tarasankar Chaudhuri. 41. The Indian immigrants in America - A peep into the historical realities/T.P. Sankarankutty Nair. (17 Articles are in Bengali).
"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 have been obtained from private collections. This book should be welcome to students, teachers and general readers alike."
