Rethinking the Local in Indian History: Perspectives from Southern Bengal

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Contributors
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Part I Textual representations, public discourses
	Chapter 1 Dynastic time: A chronology for memories in Bishnupur
	Chapter 2 Tidal histories: Envisioning the Sundarbans, 1860s–1920s
	Chapter 3 Representations of Manbhum and Purulia in Orientalist texts and the task of salvaging the past of the region
Part II Pedagogic practices, local articulations
	Chapter 4 The small voices of history: Subaltern technologists of colonial Bengal
	Chapter 5 The Advent of Primary Education in Bengal
	Chapter 6 Education and training for coal miners: ‘Ignorance’ and ‘knowledge’ in the collieries of Raniganj and Jharia, 1901–1930
Part III Administrative imperatives, governmental manoeuvres
	Chapter 7 Military interventions and surveys in southwest Bengal, c. 1765: Midnapore ‘frontier’ and the wider Jangal Mahal
	Chapter 8 Rethinking detection in Bengal: Police work in the districts and the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
	Chapter 9 Influx and efflux: A case study of Nadia, 1947–19711
Index