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A Comprehensive History Of Modern Bengal: 1700–1950 (Volume 2) by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya; Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Comprehensive History Of Modern Bengal: 1700–1950 (Volume 2) about?
Volume II of this three-volume series begins with the Bengal Renaissance, with essays on Rammohan Roy, the Derozians, the Tagores, Vidyasagar, and religious thought and social reform in nineteenth-century Bengal. The volume is rich in the depiction of the social and cultural history of Bengal, with essays on Calcutta as a commercial metropolis; the middle-class intelligentsia; castes in Bengal; popular culture; Bengali language and literature; and the growth of journalism and public opinion, besides chapters on industrial economy, peasant economy, and banking and credit. The idea of legal modernity; the Sundarbans; medicine and public health; the ramifications of the 1857 Revolt in Bengal; and Bengali Muslims and their literature have also been touched upon. The issues raised in the essay on gender in this volume continue to be further discussed in the next volume.
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sabyasachi Bhattacharya; Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
- Publisher
- The Asiatic Society in association with Primus Books, Delhi
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789389901955
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Asian History, Humanities
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