Explorations in History : Essays in Honour of Prof Chittabrata Palit

Contents Professor Chittabrata Palit life and works/Abhijit Dutta. Appendix Bibliography of the works of Professor Chittabrata Palit/Subrata Pahari. I. Studies in intellectual history 1. Colonial historiography its intellectual origin and perspective on Indian nationalism/Sumanta Niyogi. 2. Erasmus of Rotterdam renaissance humanist/Narasingha P. Sil. 3. Sikh history in the 20 century Marathi writings/Himadri Banerjee. 4. Maratha history a domain of Bengali historians contributions of Acharya Jadunath Sarkar and Surendranath Sen/Karabi Mitra. 5. Voice of the literati the partition and its dissenters in divided Bengal/Ujjal Ray. II. Studies in medical history 6. Medicine and culture in British India/Ira Klein. 7. Small pox and the introduction of vaccination in colonial Bengal/Kabita Ray. 8. Plague and people in Calcutta 1898 1900/Amal Das. 9. Sir Ronald Ross and malaria the colonial perspective/Arabinda Samanta. 10. The profile of Kala azar a historical review/Achintya Kumar Dutta. 11. U.N. Brahmachari and urea stibamin victory over Kala azar/Sandeep Sinha. 12. Drug imperialism and modern Bengal/Subrata Pahari. III. Studies in social history 13. Perspectivising Buddhist humanism a note on its socio economic constructs/Vijay Kumar Thakur. 14. Contradictions and social change India from Indus Valley days to the end of Maurya rule/Amit Bhattacharya. 15. Wild life in India a study in historical perspective/Ajay S. Rawat. 16. Gentlemen's perception of the Antahpur the nineteenth century dichotomy/Ranjit Sen. 17. William Carey and the progress of Indian science and technology/Sunil Kumar Chatterjee. 18. On the banks of Hugli/Basudeb Chattopadhyay. 19. Baptists Brahmos and utilitarians Rammohan Roy and Christianity in Bengal/Nikhiles Guha. 20. Child marriage Malabari and the Indian response/Abhijit Dutta. 21. The Elephant God and the Raj the changing image of the elephant in colonial India/Mahua Sarkar. 22. Folklore as history or history as folklore the portrayal of the revolt of 1857/Ranjit Kumar Roy. 23. Ramlochan Ghosh a progressive liberal of his time/Keka Dutta Roy. IV. Studies in economic history 24. Metals mobility and the peripatetic trends in the photo history of Rajasthan some hypotheses/Nurpur Dasgupta. 25. Agrarian regime in the Chola state/K.A. Mani Kumar. 26. Bengal provincial railway company a Swadeshi enterprise 1890 1905/Subhas Sen. 27. Attitude towards industrial labour shifts in the policy of the Bengal administration (1921 47)/Nirban Basu. 28. Begdiggi Catastrophe the hell underfoot/Rakhi Roychowdhury. 29. Some thoughts on the village and village community of Bangladesh/Ratan Lal Chakraborty. V. Studies in political history 30. The earliest resistance to the British in Tamil Nadu by Pulithevar/S. Kadhirvel. 31. Prisoners in exile a case study of the Andamans under the Raj 1858 1947/Ranjan Chakrabarti. 32. Maharaja Ganga Singh and the chamber of princes/Vidya Nand Singh. 33. Nationalism and popular consciousness Bengal 1942/Suranjan Das. The essays in this volume are in honour of Professor Chittabrata Palit a legendary teacher and leading historian of the country. They explore Prof. Palit's wide range of work in historiography agrarian history business history social history intellectual history women's history history of science and technology environment and medicine. They are written by his friends admirers colleagues and students who are historians of repute in their own right. The volume encompasses all new trends in history uptil now. 552 pp. …