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Free Download Swarupa Gupta, "Notions of Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, C. 1867-1905"
English | 2009 | pages: 411 | ISBN: 9004176144 | PDF | 7,1 mb
This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond 'derivative', 'borrowed', political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the notion of a nation. Samaj (a historical society and an idea-in-practice) was a site for reconfiguring antecedents and negotiating fragmentation. Drawing on indigenous sources, this study shows how caste, class, ethnicity, region and community were refracted to conceptualise wider unities. The mapping of cultural continuities through change facilitates a more nuanced investigation of the ontology of nationhood, seeing it as related to, but more than political nationalism. It outlines a fresh paradigm for recalibrating postcolonial identities, offering interpretive strategies to mediate fragmentation.
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Free Download Samit Kar, "`Measure for Measure`: Lynchig Deaths in West Bengal A Sociological Study"
English | 2006 | pages: 260 | ISBN: 817074296X | PDF | 34,2 mb
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Free Download Bashabi Fraser, "Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 1843312999, 1843312255 | PDF | pages: 641 | 22.0 mb
Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.
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Partition as Border-Making: East Bengal, East Pakistan and Bangladesh By Sayeed Ferdous
2021 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0367563118 | PDF | 7 MB
This book critically analyzes the Partition experiences from East Bengal in 1947 and its prolonged aftermath leading to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. It looks at how newly emerged borderlands at the time of Partition affected lives and triggered prolonged consequences for the people living in East Bengal/Bangladesh. The author brings to the fore unheard voices and unexplored narratives, especially those relating the experience of different groups of Muslims in the midst of the falling apart of the unified Muslim identity. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research and archival resources, the volume analyzes various themes such as partition literature, local narratives of border-making, smuggling, border violence, refugees, identity conflicts, border crossing, and experiences of the Bihari Muslims and the Hindus of East Pakistan, among others. A unique study in border-making, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, South Asian history, Partition studies, oral history, anthropology, political history, refugee studies, minority studies, political science, and borderland studies.
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Peter Stanley, "Hul! Hul!: The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855"
English | ISBN: 1787385426 | 2022 | 328 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal "Hul" (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army's infantry was committed and in which at least 10,000 Santals died-has been forgotten. While its memory lived among Santals, British officers published little about it, and most of the sepoys involved died in 1857. In the words of one British officer, the Hul was "not war ... but execution", and perhaps thus was dismissed as unworthy of attention by military historians.
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