A Comprehensive History of Modern Bengal 1700-1950 (Vol. 1)

Description

List of Illustrations - vii Foreword - xi Introduction - xiii 1. Political History and Historiography of Bengal Subah, 1700–1757 - syed ejaz hussain - 1 2. Military Power and Warfare in the Era of European Ascendancy in Bengal, 1700–1815 - kaushik roy - 26 3. Some Aspects of Urbanization and De-Urbanization in Bengal, 1600–1850 - aniruddha ray and soumitra sreemani - 96 4. The Making of a Maritime Economy: Bengal, 1600–1800 - rila mukherjee - 164 5. The French Companies in Bengal, 1664–1720: An Analysis - aniruddha ray - 212 6. The VOC in Bengal in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries - rila mukherjee - 240 7. Demography, Man and Nature in Bengal, c.1770–1930 - arun bandopadhyay - 286 8. A Tale of Rivers of Bengal: An Environmental History - ranjan chakrabarti - 308 9. The Zamindars of West Bengal - john r. mclane - 330 10. Internal Trade and Markets in Bengal and the Rise of the English East India Company, 1700–1790 - sudipta sen - 391 11. European East India Companies and External Trade in Eighteenth-Century Bengal - sushil chaudhury - 426 12. Rise and Growth of Calcutta between 1750 and 1850 - soumitra sreemani - 450 13. Banking and the Credit System in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century - abhik r. ray - 497 14. A Medley of Forms and Styles: Art in the Eighteenth-Century Bengal - asok kumar das - 528 15. Situating Patrons and Artists in Eighteenth-Century Bengal - ratnabali chatterjee - 563 16. Social Banditry in Bengal, 1757–1857 - ranjit sen - 594 17. Islam in Early Eighteenth-Century Bengal - richard m. eaton - 653 18. Muslim Literati and their Social, Political and Religious Thoughts in the Eighteenth Century - syed ejaz hussain - 683 Brief Bibliographic References on Bengal History, 1967–2017 - amiya kumar baul - 723 Editor and Contributors 757 Index 761