A Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal (Vol. 2)

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List of Illustrations - ix Foreword - xi Introduction - xiii 1. Caste in Bengal as Reflected in the Census, 1881–1951 - ajit kumar danda - 1 2. The Fate of Labour-Intensive Industries under Colonialism - amiya kumar bagchi - 21 3. Landed Proprietorship and the Evolution of Land Legislation in Colonial Bengal - nariaki nakazato - 44 4. Agrarian Relations and Peasant Economy in Bengal, 1793–1920 - arun bandopadhyay - 69 5. Rammohan Ray (Rammohun Roy) and His Times - bruce carlisle robertson - 117 6. The Era of Vidyasagar - brian a. hatcher - 150 7. Derozio, Young Bengal, and the Making of Modern India, 1831–1861 - rosinka chaudhuri - 185 8. Hinduism under Interpretative Stress: A View from Nineteenth-Century Bengal - amiya prosad sen - 212 9. Understanding Bengali Muslims through Literature, 1850–1947 - amit dey - 271 10. The Revolt of 1857 in Bengal: Events, Anxieties, and Ambiguities - subhas ranjan chakraborty - 308 11. ‘Hindu Law’: Invention of a Tradition and Legal Modernity in India - nandini bhattacharyya-panda - 356 12. The Idea of Justice and Evolution of the Calcutta High Court, 1862–1915 - mahua sarkar - 382 13. The Nineteenth-Century Bengali Middle Class - prasanta ray - 419 14. The Evolution of Bengali Language and Literature in the Nineteenth Century - pabitra sarkar - 483 15. Asiatic Society and its Project of the ‘Science’ of ‘Man’ in the Late Nineteenth-early Twentieth Century: An Ambivalent Space - bishnupriya basak - 558 16. Demographic Trends in Western Bengal, 1881–1951 - saswata ghosh and gorky chakraborty - 583 17. Development of Calcutta as a Commercial Metropolis in the Nineteenth Century - kaustubh mani sengupta - 629 18. Human-Tiger Conflict in the Forests of Bengal: A Case Study of the Sundarbans - ranjan chakrabarti - 659 19. Medicine and Public Health in Modern Bengal, 1850–1950 - sujata mukherjee - 697 20. The Development of Journalism and Public Opinion in Bengal, 1818–1910 - swapan basu - 737 21. Changing Hindu Women: Bengal in the Long Nineteenth Century - tanika sarkar - 804 22. Some Aspects of Popular Culture in Colonial Bengal - sumanta banerjee - 841 23. Banking and the Credit System in Bengal in the Nineteenth Century - abhik r. ray - 870 Brief Bibliographic References on Bengal History, 1967–2017 - amiya kumar baul - 895 Editor and Contributors - 929 Index - 935