A Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal 1700-1950 (Vol. 3)

List of Illustrations - ix
Foreword - xiii
Introduction - xv
1. The Swadeshi Era in Bengal - sumit sarkar - 1
2. Bengal’s Nationalist Trajectory: Turns and Twists of History, 1919–1947 - bidyut chakrabarty - 35
3. Adivasi Quest for a New Culture in Colonial Bengal: Context, Ideology and Organization, 1855–1932 - binay bhushan chaudhuri - 81
4. The Peasant Question and the Middle Class Intelligentsia in Bengal, 1831–1930 - bipasha raha - 166
5. Civil Society and Politics: Bengal, 1905–1927 - rajat kanta ray - 231
6. Caste and Politics in Bengal: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century - sekhar bandyopadhyay - 313
7. The Political Ascendancy of the Muslim League, 1937–1947 and India’s Partition - harun-or-rashid - 362
8. National Industrial Enterprise in Bengal under Colonial Rule: Case Studies of Some Swadeshi Companies, 1878–1947 - amit bhattacharyya - 383
9. Bengali Literature Riding the Waves of Nationalism and Communism, 1905–1950 - anuradha roy - 427
10. Science in Modern Bengal - deepak kumar - 491
11. Industrial Labour Movement in Bengal in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century - nirban basu - 538
12. Labouring Women: Trajectories of Marginalization - samita sen - 578
13. Composite Society of Rural Bengal: Muslims and their Agency - ranjit kumar bhattacharya - 610
14. Woman and Gender Relations in Early-Twentieth- Century Bengal: Changes and Continuities in Thought and Politics - aparajita sengupta - 630
15. Women in Bengal: Emergence of the Muslim Bhadramahila, 1876–1947 - sonia nishat amin - 664
16. Aspects of the History of Hindi-Speaking People of Early Twentieth-Century Calcutta - hitendra k. patel - 723
17. Urban Social Structure in South-West Bengal in Early Twentieth Century - prasanta ray - 751
18. Faces with an Uphill Task of Restoring ‘Order’ and ‘Discipline’: Calcutta Police and the Subject Population in an ‘Alien’ Land, c.1780–1920 - rajsekhar basu - 805
19. The Evolution of a Muslim Intelligentsia in Bengal: Ideology and Identity - tazeen m. murshid - 888
20. Conqueror’s Attires and Sartorial Preferences in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Bengal - chitta panda - 959
21. Ideology and Songs in the Bengali Theatre, 1795–1947 - devajit bandyopadhyay - 1020
22. Late Colonial Art: The Bengal School and Santiniketan - r. siva kumar - 1045
23. The Partition and its Aftermath: Bengal’s Communal Challenge, 1940–1947 - suranjan das - 1073
Brief Bibliographic References on Bengal History, 1967–2017 - amiya kumar baul - 1129
Editor and Contributors - 1163
Index - 1169